Month: February 2017

{Editor’s note: The interview was conducted during the New York Aikikai Christmas Seminar in December 2000. We would like to thank Sugano Sensei for giving this interview to Aikido Online. Thanks also to Douglas Firestone, Chief Instructor of Aikido of Westchester for his help during the interview, and Margo Ballou of the Brown University/Rhode Island...

Editor’s note: The interview was conducted during the New York Aikikai Christmas Seminar in December 2000. We would like to thank Sugano Sensei for giving this interview to Aikido Online. Thanks also to Douglas Firestone, Chief Instructor of Aikido of Westchester for his help during the interview, and Margo Ballou of the Brown University/Rhode Island...

Editor’s note: The interview was conducted during the New York Aikikai Christmas Seminar in December 2000. We would like to thank Sugano Sensei for giving this interview to Aikido Online. Thanks also to Douglas Firestone, Chief Instructor of Aikido of Westchester for his help during the interview, and Margo Ballou of the Brown University/Rhode Island...

Editor’s note: The interview was conducted during the New York Aikikai Christmas Seminar in December 2000. We would like to thank Sugano Sensei for giving this interview to Aikido Online. Thanks also to Douglas Firestone, Chief Instructor of Aikido of Westchester for his help during the interview, and Margo Ballou of the Brown University/Rhode Island...

[Editor’s Note: we are happy to reprint this inspiring account of Sugano Sensei’s return to teaching, which was first published on the Aiki-Kai Australia web site(www.aikido.org.au). We thank John Litchen (Editor of Aikido Australia) and Aiki-kai Australia for granting permission to reprint it, and John Watson and Andrew Dziedzic for their valuable assistance in setting up...

Editor’s Note: This article was published in the magazine “Australasian Fighting Arts” around 1974.  Mike Yates is currently proprietor of Zen Imports in Sydney Australia.  We received invaluable assistance from Mike Clarke, founder of the Shinseidokan Dojo in Tasmania, Australia and author of Budo Masters and Roaring Silence (avaialble at www. Ryukyu.com)  Thanks also to...

Editor’s Note: This article was published in the magazine “Australasian Fighting Arts” around 1974.  Mike Yates is currently proprietor of Zen Imports in Sydney Australia.  We received invaluable assistance from Mike Clarke, founder of the Shinseidokan Dojo in Tasmania, Australia and author of Budo Masters and Roaring Silence (avaialble at www. Ryukyu.com)  Thanks also to...

Editor’s Note: This article was published in the magazine “Australasian Fighting Arts” around 1994. Our thanks go to Mike Clarke for providing the article to us and granting permission to republish it. Mike is, founder of the Shinseidokan Dojo in Tasmania, Australia and author of Budo Masters and Roaring Silence (available at www. Ryukyu.com). Thanks...

Hi all, Found a nice article from Aikikai Australia in commemorative of our Late Seiichi Sugano Shihan. I particularly enjoyed reading page 12 and 13 the quotes from our master. Quote ‘I think Aikido is unique because O Sensei broke with so-called traditional martial arts concepts. Generally in martial arts there is a system of fighting...