In the April 2020 issue of Hiden, I wrote about the life of André Nocquet, who was the first foreign uchi desh […]
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Biography of André Nocquet Part 2: O Sensei’s mysterious keikogi
I have known the name André Nocquet for almost as long as I have known about aikido. Indeed, the picture of hi […]
Biography of André Nocquet Part 1: The first foreign uchi deshi of Ueshiba Morihei
It can be argued that what differentiates Aikido from its ancestor, Daito-ryu aiki-jujutsu, has less to do wit […]
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