AikidoInSydney.com
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Aikido Sydney - Aikido Yuishinkai Sydney City dojo
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Excerpted from the website:
- Master Koretoshi Maruyama, Founder of Aikido Yuishinkai
- Koretoshi Maruyama Sensei was born in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, on 5 October 1936. He became interested in the martial arts from his Middle School years, and at his father’s urging he took up judo and earned a black belt. In his first year of university, again at his father’s urging, Maruyama Sensei entered the Rikidozan School of Professional Wrestling and also trained in weight-lifting and boxing, while continuing his training in judo at the Kodokan.
- In the spring of his third year of university, he began to develop doubts about the martial arts of judo, wrestling and boxing, and their emphasis on contests of strength.
