YOU DON'T WALK THE AIKIDO PATH ALONE. WE ARE GUIDED BY OUR TEACHERS AND GRANDMASTERS. THEIR WISDOM, TEACHINGS AND EXAMPLE IS WHAT HELPS US DISCOVER OUR OWN PATH. SO ARE THOSE OF OUR SENSEIS EDO AND ANNE. WE HIGHLIGHT THE FOLLOWING AIKIDO GRANDMASTERS FOR YOU.
Yoshimitsu Yamada
Donovan Waite
One of the world's last Aikidoka who still trained with the founder, he was still teaching around the world at the age of 85. His broadening view to let each develop his own Aikido has taken Edo and Anne sensei under his wing.
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Shihan Donovan Waite was a teacher in New York Aikikai and Philadelphia. He taught all over the world, so he also came to the Netherlands to give a seminar. Where Edo and Anne came into contact with a particularly charismatic Aikidoka, who opened up a whole new Aikido world.
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Before sensei Edo and Anne became students of Yoshimitsu Yamada shihan, they were direct students of French grandmaster Christian Tissier for about eight years. Thanks in part to him, they started their own dojo in Veldhoven.
Learn more about our grandmaster Christian Tissier. Read more...
The list of teachers Edo and Anne sensei have had the pleasure of learning from is long. Here are some well-known grandmasters: Moriteru doshu, Fukakusa sensei, Sugano sensei, Tamura sensei, Doshu, Bruno Zanotti, Bruno Gonzales, Chris Curtis, Michelle Feilen, Micheline Tissier, Kaila Feder... and many more!