The following list comprises the 2021 New Year’s promotions by recommendation for 5th, 6th and 7th dan, and Shihan. Congratulations to all!
The recently posted list by Aikikai can be found here: Click Here
Godan
- Kenneth Cadogan – Aikido of Chester County
- Aaron Cass – Portsmouth Aikido
- Jorge Del Castillo – Florida Aikikai
- Robert Lewis Clark – Kitsap Aikido
- Larry DeCarmine – Palm Beach Aikikai
- Neal Earhart – Aikido of Westchester
- Graham Fraser – Mount Saint Vincent Aikikai
- Arnold Gentile – Albany Aikido
- Michael Hannoyer – Aikido de la Montagne
- Daniel Hayes – Chushin Aikikai
- Victor Hung – Aikido of Colorado
- Alan Jackson – Mt Pleasant Aikido
- Raymond Kohl – Midwest Aikido Center
- Wendy Rusch Kopka – Midwest Aikido Center
- Chris Mills – Island Aikido
- Octavia (Tabi) Pereyra – Florida Aikikai
- Keith Pray – Albany Aikido
- Gustavo Rearte – South Bay Aikikai
- Benjamin Silver – Aikido of Santa Barbara
- James Sinnott – Aikido Institute of Newfoundland
- Donald Slater – Georgia Southern University Aikido Club
Rokudan
- Timothy Antrim – Southside Aikido
- Ty Barker – Portland Aikikai
- Robert Crowell – Knoxville Aikikai
- Ray Feliciano – Pasadena Aikikai
- Bryan Golden – Woodstock Aikido
- Jack Hayes – Aikido Cedar Rapids
- Sharon Henn-Kanai – New England Aikikai
- Alesia Kunz – San Francisco Aikikai
- Ralph Legnini – Woodstock Aikido
- Michael Martin – Capitol Hill Aikikai
- William McLuskie – Water Oak Aikikai
- Lynne Morrison – Florida Aikikai
- Charles Renner – Springfield Aikido Club
- Jayne Thompson – Aikido Cedar Rapids
- Joseph Verville – San Francisco Aikikai
- Robert Ward – Aikido of Prescott
- Kenneth Yamazaki – New York Eastside Aikikai
Nanadan
- Penny Bernath – Florida Aikikai
- David Birt – Davis Aikikai
- Yukiko Katagiri – Cornell Aikido Club
- Steven Kaufmann – Open Sky Aikikai
- Grady Lane – Brevard Aikikai
- Larry Levitt – Valley Aikido
- Joseph Nemeth – Aikido of Nassau County
- Collins Smith – Bermuda Aikikai
- William Xavier Staub – Waianae Coast Aikido
- Geraldine Louise Tremblay Waianae Coast Aikido
- Richard Wagener – Palm Beach Aikikai
- Frank Wong Loi Sing – Aikido Curacao
Shihan
- Damon Apodaca – Santa Fe Budokan
- Patrick Hardesty – Kentuckiana Aikikai
- Alicia Cordero Hardesty – Kentuckiana Aikikai
- Stephan Jesberger – Mohawk Valley Aikido
- Brian Mizerak – Woodstock Aikido
- Daniel Palmer – Asheville Aikikai
- Gail Skinner – Aikido of the Canyon Lands
