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The Aikido Schools of Ueshiba is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, administered under a board of senior instructors. In addition to the actions of the board, ASU policy is reviewed and set by three standing committees: an Examination Committee, an Instructional Committee, and an Advisory Committee of ASU instructors who are not board members.
Aikido techniques are frequently referred to as waza 技 (which is Japanese for technique, art or skill). Aikido training is based primarily on two partners practicing pre-arranged forms ( kata ) rather than freestyle practice .
The use of the term is specific to a school or organization, as is the process of becoming a shihan. In aikido, the title shihan often is granted to teachers when they reach 6th dan. [1] [2] It is sometimes associated with certain rights, such as the right to give out black belt ranks.
Karl Geis (1933 – April 7, 2014) was an American judo, aikido, and jodo instructor. [1] He died of prostate cancer. [ 2 ] Karl Geis is a member of the Black Belt Magazine Hall of Fame, [ 3 ] and the founder of Fugakukai International Association .
After Training in Japan with the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba, [6] from 1962-1964 Nadeau returned to Northern California and opened a series of martial art schools sharing space with first Professor Sig Kuferat and later Richard Bunch through whom he has had on-going contact with several notable Ju-Jitsu schools [7] and which eventually ...
Hiroshi Ikeda (池田 裕 Ikeda Hiroshi, born 1950) is a Japanese aikido teacher in the United States.He holds the rank of 7th dan from the Aikikai. [1] He is the most senior student of Mitsugi Saotome of Aikido Schools of Ueshiba (ASU).
Hideo Ohba (大庭 英雄, Ōba Hideo, April 27, 1910 – February 2, 1986) was a Japanese aikido and judo teacher and the Second Director of Japan Aikido Association after the death of Kenji Tomiki. [1] He was born as Hideo Tozawa in a village called Nakagawa in Akita prefecture. In 1936, he adopted his wife's name upon marriage in deference ...
Takashi Kushida (串田 誉司, Kushida Takashi, May 2, 1935 – May 10, 2012) was a Japanese aikido master and the chief instructor of Aikido Yoshokai Association of North America (also called AYANA). He began his study of Aikido under Gozo Shioda in 1953 and lived at the Yoshinkan Dojo as a professional student (uchideshi) for over 12 years.