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About Rockdale AikidoAbout the InstructorsGlen Davison, Rockdale Aikido founder and head instructor began teaching aikido in 1993 at the UNSW branch of Aikido Kokikai Australia. Glen founded the Macquarie University branch in 1996 and taught there until 2004 Glen taught at Five Dock from 2005 to 2008. Glen started learning aikido from Shuji Ozeki Sensei in 1990. He was awarded his shodan (1st dan black belt) in 1994 and now holds a 6th dan black belt in Kokikai aikido. Glen has interests in a wide range of martial arts including judo, tai chi and kung fu. When time and money permit, he enjoys travelling to Japan to train with Maruyama Sensei Stephen Hafer 3rd dan black belt Stephen began learning aikido from Shuji Ozeki Sensei in 1991. Rockdale Club HistoryRockdale Aikido held its first training session in May 2009. It is the 3rd dojo founded by Glen Davison. Aikido HistoryAikido is a martial art founded in Japan in the twentieth century by Sensei Morihei Ueshiba. Its main influence is from jujitsu and its central tenet is to redirect and utilise an attacker's energy to neutralise an attack rather than opposing it with force. Techniques are predominantly defensive and tend to take the form of throws and immobilising joint locks. The Kokikai syle of Aikido was founded by Shuji Maruyama Sensei, a direct student of Ueshiba Sensei and Tohei Sensei, who was sent to the USA by Ueshiba to teach and spread aikido in the '70s. Some years after the death of Ueshiba, whilst still in the USA, Maruyama Sensei founded his Kokikai style of Aikido. Kokikai headquarters is now at Maruyama Sensei's dojo in Nagoya, Japan. In 1989, Shuji Ozeki Sensei, a senior student of Maruyama Sensei founded the first Australian branch of Kokikai Aikido, www.unsw-aikido.org based at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. Ozeki Sensei lived and taught in Sydney for 10 years until he returned to Japan. Ozeki Sensei still returns regularly to teach workshops in Australia, and Maruyama Sensei visits Sydney most years as head instructor at the annual Kokikai Australia "Spring Camp". Black belt applicants are tested at this time. |
