http://www.shugenkanaikido.com/ Shugenkan Aikido en-us Sun, 20 May 2007 07:55:55 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Shugenkan Aikido News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.shugenkanaikido.com/images/logo.gif http://www.shugenkanaikido.com/ http://www.shugenkanaikido.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4 Sun, 20 May 2007 07:55:55 GMT http://www.shugenkanaikido.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3 Joe Rangel Sensei, 2nd Dan, Aikikai Hombu Dojo - Tokyo, Japan Joe was introduced to the martial arts in his early teens, naming Kempo as his first love in Budo. While serving in the U.S. Marine Corps, and having lived and trained for three years in Okinawa, Japan, he felt that there was more to martial training than what the 'way of the fist' provided. Years later, Joe, informally, began his practice of Aikido in 1992 and eventually joined Aikido of San Antonio under Sensei Kevin Templer, then with the Midwest Aikido Federation led by Akira Tohei Shihan, 8th Dan. Joe feels privileged to have trained at many seminars under Tohei Sensei and subsequently received all kyu rankings directly from him. Joe's duties as a brown belt included helping as assistant instructor and did so for several years throughout his study and also served the M.A.F. as Kenshusei, or "teacher in training". In April of 1998, he tested for and was promoted to Shodan at an O'Sensei Memorial seminar in Chicago, Illinois. A special event annually hosted by Sensei Akira Tohei. With Tohei Sensei's passing in July 1999 and having already set a personal time window of 10 years, Joe left Aikido of San Antonio in late 2002 and sought out other Master Instructors outside the realm of any particular organization or affiliation. Since 1993, Joe Rangel sensei has traveled to many places to train under prominent instructors of Aikido including Jo Birdsong, Peter Bernath, Tres Hofmeister, George Ledyard, John Messores, Donovan Waite, Harvey Konigsberg, Christian Tissier, Frank Doran, I. Shibata, H. Ikeda, Seiichi Sugano, K. Chiba, M. Kanai, Shoji Nishio, Akira Tohei, Yoshimitsu Yamada, Mitsugi Saotome, Hiroshi Kato and Moriteru Ueshiba. In spring of 2003 Joe Rangel co-founded an ASU dojo in San Antonio, Texas with Sensei Craig Slack and others. Being honored with a personal invitation to a Shodan-only (Instructor) training session at Saotome Sensei's Aiki Shrine Dojo in Florida, Joe marks this as a truly memorable event in his Aikido career. After two years of devotion, support, and assistant instructing at the Alamo City Aikido dojo he helped create, Joe decided to venture on his own. Having met Hiroshi Kato Shihan a few years prior and after seeing him again in late 2004, Joe sensei joined the Shudokan Aikido Association in April 2005. Soon after, in early June 2005 Joe tested for and was promoted to Nidan by Kato Shihan at a Friendship Seminar in Houston, Texas hosted by long time friend, Sensei Jorge Garcia of the Shudokan School of Aikido. Sensei Joe Rangel founded and established Shugenkan Aikido on July 1, 2005 with Kato Shihan's approval and is affiliated directly with the Aikikai Foundation, Aikido World Headquarters, also known as Hombu Dojo in Tokyo, Japan. He is a proud student of Sensei Hiroshi Kato, 8th Dan. Joe is a Board of Directors member with the SAA and in the Teaching/Test Committee headed by Sensei John Riggs, 4th Dan from Aikido of Midland. Joe was appointed the Instructor rank of Fuku-Shidoin in September 2005 and serves the local community as Dojo-Cho. "The real way of the warrior is based on compassion, wisdom, fearlessness, and love of nature." ~Morihei Ueshiba, O-Sensei Thu, 17 Nov 2005 06:17:41 GMT http://www.shugenkanaikido.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2 ~ADULTS~ TUESDAY & THURSDAY EVENINGS @ 8:00pm SATURDAY & SUNDAY AFTERNOONS @ 2:00pm *First week is free, thereafter $40.00 monthly / no contracts* (special scholarships or discounts on a case by case basis) ~YOUTH~ SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS ONLY @ 12:30pm Ages: 6 thru 13 *First weekend is free, thereafter $20.00 monthly / no contracts* (special scholarships or discounts on a case by case basis) **We stock Aikido practice uniforms (keiko-gi) for members only** Sat, 29 Oct 2005 04:43:51 GMT