Yoshimitsu yamada biography of alberta

  • Sensei Vitold Jordan has spent many years devoted himself to training in the samurai martial arts, spirituality, and counseling, and has attained a certain.
  • Stanley Pranin continues his tribute to Morihiro Saito in this second part.
  • He has studied at Open Sky Aikido in Hillsborough under chief instructor Steve Kaufmann, 6th Dan Shihan and Yamada Yoshimitsu in the USAF since.

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    It Had To Be Felt #72: Kawahara Yukio: "Grab Me! Fight Me! Fight Me! (He was laughing)"

    I am writing about Yukio Kawahara, the technical director of the Canadian Aikido Federation. I don't feel I deserve to. Other people spent more years with him, started with him earlier, lived closer, or were clearly his preferred uke. I wish I'd had more time with him. It is hard to find one stand-out memory that will explain him to posterity.

    He never really shared much about his early years, and I think he preferred that. Those memories sound horrible, the few I knew of. He lived a simple, and mostly solitary life in the present moment. He just wanted his students to get better.

    He insisted on good manners—but he seemed to want a good heart. I was driving him to a seminar when an old man was laying on the ice with a bleeding face in front of us. I apologized to Sensei, got out of the car, and helped the man up and did a quick assessment. The man's daughter came running to help. We got to the seminar a few minutes late, and Sensei never said a word about it. Years later, we watched a Zatoichimovie together, and he stopped the movie at one line of dialogue, where Zatoichi growled: "Samurai are selfish. They care only about their honor and not about human beings."

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    Remembering Morihiro Saito Part 2, by Stanley Pranin

    Stanley Pranin continues his tribute to Morihiro Saito in this second part. In it, Pranin recalls Saito Sensei’s trip to North America, seminars in Italy and France, and some humorous episodes while traveling with his teacher. You can read the first part of the tribute here and the third part here.

    1979 trip to USA and Canada

    I was very honored when Saito Sensei first asked me to travel abroad with him on his trip to the USA and Canada in August 1979. We participated in the United States Aikido Federation summer camp sponsored by Mitsunari Kanai Sensei and Yoshimitsu Yamada Sensei, based in Boston, Massachusetts and New York City, respectively. Saito Sensei was well received on the east coast on this his first appearance and most aikidoka attending the seminar were seeing his weapons training for the first time.

    I clearly remember too our meeting and chatting with Nobuyoshi Tamura Sensei and Tiki Shewan Sensei of France at the New York Aikikai just prior to the summer camp. Another standout memory was a delicious seafood dinner in Boston harbor following which Saito Sensei, Yamada Sensei, Kanai Sensei, Bruce Klickstein and I talked until late at night on every imaginable aikido subject.

    Sensei also conducted

  • yoshimitsu yamada biography of alberta

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     The founder divest yourself of YAMA is Sensei Vitold Jordan, Th.M.

    (An ordained Christianly Minister/Pastor - VNTF-Int., Texas, 2001)

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    •Shihan Toshikazu Ichimura (7 Dan), Scandinavia
    •Shihan Christian Tissier (8 Dan), France
    •Shihan Nobuyoshi Tamura (8 Dan), Accumulation, USA
    •Shihan Katsuaki Asai (8 Dan), Germany
    •Shihan Yoshimitsu Yamada (8 Dan), USA
    •Shihan Mitsunari Kanai (8 Dan), Beantown, USA
    •Shihan Shoiji Nishio (8 Dan), Peninsula, Japan
    •Shihan Seigo Yamaguchi (9 Dan), Writer, Japan
    •Shihan Seishiro Endo (8 dan), Writer, Japan

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