An offshoot of the mainline school of Yagyu Shingan-ryu centered in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture. Morihei UESHIBA trained in this art in Sakai near Osaka from c. 1903-1908. Ueshiba’s practice began around the time...
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Josh GoldHiroyuki Hasegawa
(b. 25 January 1952). 3rd dan Aikikai-Kobayashi Dojos. B. Fukui Prefecture. Kobayashi Dojo Shidoin. First taught by Haruyoshi HORIKOSHI in Kasukabe in 1984. Also holds dan rank in Kyokushinkai Karate. Instructs at dojos...
Dojo Cho 道場長
Director of the dojo; Kisshomaru UESHIBA was the first to occupy this position in the AIKIKAI HOMBU DOJO in 1957. The present Dojo-cho is Moriteru UESHIBA who succeeded Kisaburo OSAWA in 1986.
European Aikido Federation
(EAF). An organization created in November 1975 in Paris at the same time as the INTERNATIONAL AIKIDO FEDERATION and which grouped together the AIKIKAI-HOMBU-affiliated national organizations of Europe. Its first...
Haydn Foster
A former judo practitioner who began aikido training under Kenshiro ABBE in the late 1950s. Became national aikido coach in 1961 and head of the Aikikai of London in 1968. Presently, the leading figure in the Institute...
Jose Garrido
(b. 1955). Kyoju Dairi, Nihon Goshin Aikido; 1st dan Daito-ryu Aikijujutsu-Kodokai, 1982 [rank authenticated]. First taught by Richard Bowe in New Jersey, USA in 1965. Holder of rankings from various jujutsu...