The shodan (1st degree black belt) examination of Barry Engh, member of the University of South Florida Aikido dojo (Tampa Florida, usfaikido.com). The exam was held during the annual Florida Rokudan Seminar, which was hosted this year by the ASU Sarasota dojo on August 21, 2010.
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Seminar: Sensei Wendy Whited, March 26-28 2010
Wendy Whited Sensei will be teaching a three-day seminar hosted by USF Aikido. Whited Sensei holds the rank of rokkudan (sixth degree black belt) and has been training in Aikido for nearly 34 years. She has been t
Seminar: 2009 Florida Rokkudan Seminar, August 7-9 2009
The University of South Florida (Tampa) will be hosting the fifth annual Aikido Schools of Ueshiba Florida Rokkudan seminar featuring instruction by senseis Dennis Hooker, Duane “PeeWee” Jones, Steve McPeck, John Messores, Patty Saotome and Wendy Whited. The purpose of this seminar is to foster fellowship among dojos, to provide a memorable forum for testing black belt candidates from ASU dojos and to have these respected senseis share their expectations and knowledge about what it means to prepare for and become an aikido black belt. Qualified shodan and nidan candidates from any ASU dojo are invited to test.
Koichi Tohei Shihan Seminar at USF Aikido, 1965
Below features a clip (courtesy of AikidoJournal.com) of renowned Koichi Tohei Shihan teaching a seminar at the University of South Florida in 1965. Tohei Shihan was an uchi deshi (live-in apprentice/disciple) of the Founder, Morihei Ueshiba O-Sensei and himself the founder of the international Ki Society (Shin Shin Toitsu). You can clearly see the “USF” logo on the wrestling mat he is teaching upon. His primary uke is Yoshimitsu Yamada Shihan, the current head of the United States Aikido Federation.
The following picture shows Tohei Shihan and Yamada Shihan posing together with one of our own instructors, a very young Daryl Schrader Sensei.
Tohei Shihan passed away in May, 2011.
