When Mitsugi Saotome walked into Sarasota’s 12th Street Dojo on a warm evening in mid-May, he looked like he had walked straight out of a Japanese Western. Small in stature, he wore a wide-brimmed ...
A Japanese aikido master has put local students through the paces this weekend. Mitsuo Tasaka arrived Wednesday evening, direct from Shingu, Japan's renowned aikido gym. As a measure of the respect ...
Aikido master Michiharu Mori says "keyboard warriors" are destroying his traditional martial art. The Brisbane sensei will ...