Archives for January 2021

Test applications mailed to Aikikai Hombu Dojo on January 21st, 2021 for registration of  dan rank.

Shodan

• Matthew Addison – Pinellas County Aikikai
• Michael Carbone – Aikido of Central New York
• Johnny Cicirello – Myoho Aikido Vermont
• Mary Dickens – Fairfield Iowa Aikikai
• Salvatore Donato – Aikido de la Montagne
• Adbellatif Fqihi – Aikido de la Montagne
• Emiko Yoshia Frye – Pasadena Aikikai
• Ludmilla Pavlova Gillham – Valley Aikido
• Wesley Hartman – Maru Aikikai South
• Max Hyatt – Maru Aikikai South
• William Johnson – Aikido Center of Atlanta
• Eva LaDow – Aikido of Dallas
• Karen Lane – Brevard Aikikai
• Daniel Lapare – Aikido de la Montagne
• DJ Macintyre – Ottawa Aikido Center
• Daniel Malarik – Aikido of Central New York
• Christopher Manz – Valley Aikido
• Yuki Nakashima – Ottawa Aikikai
• Adam Nicholson – Sangamon Aikikai
• Michael Reese – Aikido of Dallas
• David Todt – Fairfield Iowa Aikikai

Nidan

• Anthony Bentley – Springfield Aikido Club
• Peter Discenza – Twin Cities Aikido Center
• David Goldberger – Two Rivers Aikikai
• April Hersey – Two Rivers Aikikai
• James Jacenich – Staunton Aikikai
• Jennifer Key – Two Rivers Aikikai
• Kimberly Koenig – Woodstock Aikido
• Alon Koppel – Woodstock Aikido
• Lance Luria – Springfield Aikido Club
• Rachel Narowlansky – Notting Hill Aikikai

Sandan

• Javier Calduch – Florida Aikikai
• Diana Edenburg – Florida Aikikai
• Joseph Giardina – Aikido of Westchester
• Anne Chu Liao – Newport Beach Aikikai
• Teri Pierson – Two Rivers Aikikai
• David Plock – Palm Beach Aikikai
• Dmitry Pozdnyakov – Woodstock Aikido
• Monica Sasaki – Florida Aikikai
• Violet Snow – Woodstock Aikido
• Phi Tong – Palm Beach Aikikai

Yondan

• Denis Betournay – McGill Aikido
• Nikolay Grozdanov – Florida Aikikai
• Robert LaPalme – Valley  Aikido
• Dale Mankin – El Paso Aikikai
• Jerome Mercier – Aikido de la Montagne
• Michael Nedostupenko – Florida Aikikai
• Andrew Obeidy – Florida Aikikai
• Victor Ortiz – Florida Aikikai
• Charn Pennewaert – Newport Beach Aikikai
• Jacques Pharand – McGill Aikido
• Robert Pitts – Mt Pleasant Aikido
• Nicholas Ross – Woodstock Aikido

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