TAYORI
Selected Articles from Issue 22
June 2003
KICK OFF THE SUMMER !
The first weekend in June is a big one for Hilo Seishikan Aikido. Coming to Hilo to share his vast knowledge of aikido with us is Donald Moriyama-sensei of Pearl City Aikido Club. We are very fortunate that Moriyama-sensei has been coming over to Hilo to teach and help us in our training. He was here earlier this year and is returning to help us again.
Moriyama-sensei has trained with most of the premier
sensei in aikido. He has lived and
trained and taught aikido in Japan.
While there he met and started training with Saito-sensei at the Iwama
Dojo. Saito-sensei trained many years
with aikido founder Ueshiba O-sensei.
He maintained O-sensei’s original style of aikido. Moriyama-sensei is a practitioner of
Iwama-ryu Aikido. He is one of only a
couple of aikido sensei in all of America certified as an instructor of
Iwama-ryu aikido bokken and jo methods.
Moriyama-sensei is in demand for instructing aikido
throughout the United States. He just
recently returned from instructing on the mainland. We are really fortunate to have come to Hilo to help us. Please make every effort to attend his
classes here. What a great way to start
the summer!! The following is a
schedule of his classes:
SPRING 2003 RANK PROMOTIONS
Hilo Seishikan Aikido held its annual Spring Rank
Examinations in May, 2003. The Youth
Class held its testing on Wednesday, May 7, and the Open Aikido Classes held
their testing on Monday, May 12. The
rank testing board composed of the instructors in our club, was very much pleased
and impressed with the performance of the various students in the testing. Board members felt that it was the best
aikido arts testing that they had observed in many years! It was felt that the students as a whole
displayed much improvement over past performances. Hilo Seishikan Aikido is pleased to announce the following rank
promotions and to congratulate the students.
Congratulations also go to the instructors.
10B Arden
Costales Jr., Melanie Isa, Taryn Isa, Brandee Konanui.
10A Sara Lim,
Stacie Lim, Kevin Oshiro
9C Jaymie Masuda
9B Megan Escalona, Taylor Escalona, Tristan Yoshida.
9A Royce Dela Cruz, Reyn T. Nishioka, Dustin Soriano,
Daniel Tavares.
8C Catelyn S. Hakoda
7C August Kubo Jr.
6C Anson Almeida, Francis Blas III, Jonathan Maesato.
6B Aisha Tanaka, Kenji Tulman, Andrew Yoshimoto,
James Yoshimoto.
5C Brev Blas, Kolaka Kapihe, Colby Miyose, Kerri
Nakatsu, Ryo Tulman.
5A Kawehioka’iulani Hanohano, Bryson Miyose.
4A Oaka Ruddle-Miyamoto
3C Steven Maesato
3A Kristi Masuhara
2C Simon Kaliko Trapp
2B David Cadaoas
1C Nelson Nakatsu
SHIN BUDO KAI AIKIDO
SEMINAR
On the weekend of May 16-18, nine of our club black
belts and two of our students traveled out to Kamuela to participate in Shin
Budo Kai’s Aikido Seminar held at the Hawaii Preparatory Academy. Shin Budo Kai is an aikido organization
headquartered in New York City and with branch dojos in various locations
around the mainland United States. One
of their branches is in Kamuela. The
seminar was held in conjunction with their fifteenth anniversary as an
organization and also as a fifth anniversary of the forming of the Kamuela
branch.
The founder of the Shin Budo Kai is Shizuo
Imaizumi-sensei. Imaizumi-sensei was
among the last generation of students of the founder of aikido, Morihei Ueshiba
O-sensei. He also trained extensively
with Tohei-sensei. Imaizumni-sensei first
instructed in America in 1972. He came
to America permanently in 1975. He was
sent to New York to teach aikido there.
He served as Chief Instructor of the Ki Society aikido in the United
States from 1976 to 1988, when he resigned from the Ki Society. He later founded the Shin Budo Kai Aikido.
Imaizumi-sensei had come to Hilo and instructed
aikido here on two occasions. Some of
us had met him and practiced with him then, and had become friends with
him. We had heard and read of his
coming to the Big Island to hold a seminar.
We received a phone call inviting us to participate in his seminar. We were very happy to learn that he wanted
us to participate.
Those of us who were able to go to Kamuela and
participate in the seminar were very pleased that we had gone. We learned a lot and really enjoyed it. We had a great time training with
Imaizumi-sensei again. There were
aikido students from around the mainland—New York, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada,
Washington. There were students from
Kohala, Kamuela, Hilo, and us. It was
good to participate along with students from elsewhere. Imaizumi-sensei was personally enjoyable
too. Yes, it was a great weekend!
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