Misogikan Dojo is a member of Renshinkai Aikido.

Renshinkai Aikido is under the auspices of 8^th-dan Tsutomu Chida-Shihan, a top uchideshi of the late founder of Yoshinkan Aikido, Gozo Shioda-Sensei. Chida-Shihan is working hard to guide the next generation of leaders and teachers by instilling in them the techniques and spirit that he inherited from Gozo Shioda-Sensei.

Chida-Shihan was an uchideshi of Gozo Shioda-Sensei from 1971 and has had the longest career at the Yoshinkan Aikido Honbu. Even after the passing of Gozo Shioda-Sensei in 1994, Chida-Shihan continued his support for 13 years until December of 2007 when he retired from the Yoshinkan Honbu. Later in April of 2008, it came about that he decided to move on from the Yoshinkan organization and established the Renshinkai.

We meet Chida Sensei at Sheremetyevo Airport on 17^th May 2012 and this visit for the first time he travelled alone without an assistant took the Aerostar Express to the center of town and settled Sensei into our friends apartment where we enjoyed a meal and chatted about the seminar and things in general, the next day was a rest day for Sensei after his long travel from Japan.

Saturday 19^th saw the first day of the seminar and both Sensei and I were delighted to see many students of Aikido from different parts of Russia including Kamchatka, Vladivostok, Saratov, Balakovо, St.Petersburg and students from other schools in Moscow.

In the Gallery of our Web-Site published some photos from the Aikido Renshinkai Seminar with Tsutomu Chida Sensei took place 19-20.05.1012 in Moscow, Russia.

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From Gottsupedia

Republished with the kind permission of the Author of Gottsupedia

Chida Tsutomu (千田務）was born Oct.4^th 1950, and is an 8^th dan Shihan and the chief instructor of Aikido Renshinkai, an off-shoot of Yoshinkan aikido. A direct student of founder Shioda Gozo, he studied with Shioda for 25 years from 1969 until Shioda’s death in 1994. Following Shioda's death, Chida continued to serve at the Yoshinkan honbu dojo and was appointed dojocho in 2002. Chida is one of Shioda Gozo's top disciples and a living legend of Yoshinkan aikido. He quickly became one of the most respected and sought after Yoshinkan instructors, and regularly taught seminars overseas to promote Yoshinkan aikido.

Chida resigned from the honbu dojo effective December 2007 shortly after a series of events following the resignation of former headmaster Inoue Kyoichi. Not long after his resignation from Yoshinkan, Chida established Aikido Renshinkai as an independent organization in March 2008.

I would like to thank all who supported our weekend seminar at our honbu dojo on 12^th and 13^th of this month and offer my congratulations to the five people who passed their examinations it was great to see our friends from Kraznogorsk and Saratov.

It is now confirmed that Chida Sensei will conduct a Seminar here in Moscow. Seminar dates are 19^th - 20^th May 2012. Full details of the seminar will be published soon and I hope that all students related to Misogikan-Renshinkai will support this very important seminar.


David Eayrs