Connecticut Aikikai is on Grand Avenue in New Haven, CT. CT Aikikai has been open for over thirty years and welcomes Aikidoka from all Aikido affiliations.
Old City Aikido is in Center City, Philadelphia. Sensei Jason Perna has over 30 years of martial arts experience. He has roots in Iwama-Ryu Aikido as well as the mainline Aikikai style. Old City Aikido teaches adults and children.
Aikido of Westchester is located in White Plains, NY. Established in 1997, Douglas Firestone Shihan was a student of the late Rev. Kensho Furuya in L.A. and then became an uchi deshi to Yamada Shihan in Manhattan. They teach Aikikai-style Aikido and Toyama Ryu Battodo swordsmanship.
Notes/コメント:Still Mind Aikido is located in Scarsdale, a town in Westchester County , New York. The dojo is part of the Aikikai, but is heavily influenced by Morihiro Saito’s style. Saito Sensei was formerly in charge of the Iwama Dojo and Aiki Shrine in Iwama, Japan.
Notes/コメント:Founded in 1955 by Gozo Shioda, Yoshinkan style of Aikido is described as a harder version of Aikido. The style is famous for its year-long senshusei course in which the Tokyo Riot Police are a part of.
Notes/コメント:Aikido of Park Slope has been around for nearly 40 years and is Brooklyn’s largest Aikido dojo. The head instructor,Lehrman Shihan (7th Dan), is a student of Yamada Shihan, founder of the New York Aikikai.
Notes/コメント:Aikido of South Brooklyn is a family-owned dojo in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn, NY. They are affiliated with the Aikido World Alliance and the Aikikai. They also run a community outreach program that teaches Aikido in NYC public schools
南ブルックリン合気道は『Cobble Hill』ていう町で家族経営の道場です。ジョシュ・ポール先生は20年以上武道をやって合気道の5段と神道夢想流杖道の初段です。Mind Body Arts はポール先生のコミュニティアウトリーチプログラム。そのプログラムはニューヨークの公立学校で合気道を教えってます。
Notes/コメント:The original Honbu Dojo was a wooden structure built in 1931. In 1967, the wooden building was replaced by the modern concrete building in the same plot of land in the Wakamatsu-Cho neighborhood of Shinjuku. The Honbu Dojo is the headquarters of the Aikikai and the current head instructor is Mitsuteru Ueshiba Sensei, the son of the current Doshu, or head of the Aikikai Foundation.
Notes/コメント: Founded in 2009, New York Eastside Aikikai is an Aikido dojo on 92nd Street between 1st and 2nd Avenue. Yamazaki Sensei is a 5th Dan black belt and former uchi deshi to a famous instructor in Japan. He is now a direct student of Yamada Shihan of the New York Aikikai.
Notes/コメント:Founded in 1964, it is the oldest operating Aikido dojo in the USA. The Sensei, Yamada Yoshimitsu, was an uchi-deshi under Aikido’s founder, Ueshiba Morihei.