Yoshimitsu Yamada Aikikai Aikido Shihan

Yoshimitsu Yamada, a direct student of O Sensei for more than ten years, is an 8th dan and the chief instructor at the New York Aikikai. Currently, he is Chairman of the Board of the United States Aikido Federation and the Latin America Aikido Federation. He is the author of Aikido Complete and has made multiple aikido training tapes.

Yamada Sensei is well known for his clear and strong basic technique. He teaches seminars all over the world where thousands of students attend his classes.

Quote:

"We must keep the spirit of budo no matter how we practice."

Q: You were one of the earlier uchideshi at the Aikikai. What year did you start?

A: When I joined as an uchideshi only Tamura Sensei and Arikawa Sensei were there. Yasuo Kobayashi was still in college. He came to the dojo every day. I entered when I was 17. I am 53 now, so it must have been 1955.

For more information : http://www.nyaikikai.com/yamada.asp
http://www.aikido-yamada.eu/yamada_se...


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[BrodyrGMC]

nice video. i liked the intro with the pictures and the history. i would possible change the lenght of the last demostration (i think its the org. 50's demo) to keep the viewers who are not aikidoka interested. i really liked the ending how you jumped back to present day footage

[AikikaiAikido]

Thank you!!

[kj01a]

aikikaiaikido is this your sensei?

[AikikaiAikido]

No Masatake Fujita Shihan is my Japanese Sensei.

But i have learnd alot from Yamada Sensei

[AikikaiAikido]

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[Aiki421]

Oustanding Aikido. The martial arts community in general is blessed to have so many profoundly great people such as Yamada sensei

[bombingcontent]

real life tekken gogogogo

[aikipablo100]

Ay!! todabía nadie explicó con claridad, por qué los ataques en Aikido son tan idiotas... Es un arte marcial maravilloso, pero esos ataques tan irreales...........

[ravisdb]

i see the young kanai sensei there too as uke, very good thank you for posting

[miloedo]

@AikikaiAikido I studied 2 year at NyAikikai and I can say, Yamada Sensei and Sugano sensei (RIP) are great, I don't know Fujita Sensei personally but I watched some videos of him, and I liked his style a lot.

[Wolfsbane909]

@gunifigoo my bad. She is good though but i better shut up about that, the class is crowded enough as it is.

[gunifigoo]

@Wolfsbane909 If you mean Tamami Nakashimada Sensei, she is currently 5th dan. Suganuma Sensei is 8th dan

[BidwellRunner]

Beautiful, thanks for the video.

[kenokurose]

Great lessons. I love Judo and Aikido. Peace!

[TheMidnightOnline]

Excellent video!