Thursday, October 30, 2014

RARE footage of O Sensei from 1957.

This is a rare demonstration held at the Self-Defense Ministry in Tokyo's Akasaka circa 1957. 

This section is the performance of O Sensei Morihei Ueshiba. His main uke are Hiroshi Tada and Nobuyoshi Tamura. The film was part of AndrĂ© Nocquet's private 8 mm collection. 

Nocquet was the very first foreign live-in student of the founder of Aikido Morihei Ueshiba. He spent 3 years living with the Ueshiba family from 1955 to 1957 and trained daily at the Kobukan Dojo. 

Read Nocquet's full biography:http://www.guillaumeerard.com/aikido/...


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