Yasuhisa Shioda - Early Life and Career

Early Life and Career

Yasuhisa Shioda started practicing Aikido at the age of thirteen, training every day. he graduated in 1971 from the Economics Department of Chuo University in Tokyo. As a member of the Yoshinkan Aikido DOJO he continued to undergo aikido training with his father the founder of Yoshinkan Gozo Shioda Sensei, and spread aikido by teaching it in universities, and to police departments, and various organizations. From 1948 he spent three years in England, and helped establish the basis for the spread of aikido overseas. After returning to Japan he concentrated on teaching young people, especially nursery school children, originating a unique instruction method that encouraged them to develop their character through the practice of aikido. He also teaches at the community centers. After Gozo Shioda's death in 1994, in order to spread his father's legacy throughout the world, he has been teaching aikido and has also become an author. In 2007, he became the new Yoshinkan Kancho, and also the Third Soke of Yoshinkan Aikido. These days he trained different students in different age in Dojo that is near from Takadonobaba Station with Other Professional Sensei(Teacher) like Takafumi Takeno (9th DAN), Tsuneo Ando (8th DAN), Takehiko Sonoda (8th DAN), Jacques Payet (7th DAN), Susumu Chino (7th DAN), Takayuki Oyamada (7th DAN), etc.


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