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Location: Martial Arts Academy
305 High K Rd. Belgrade
Take Amsterdam road toward the RIver Rock subdivision. Past the main division you will hit Royal Rd, then left at High K. Follow for a quarter mile, bldg on the right. Turn directly at the slow children at play sign. The bldg is a beige commercial warehouse with 3 garage doors, next to a house.
Classes are Tues at 5:00 and Sat Weapons, 9:30, Aikido at 10:30
$60/per month
drop in $12/class
Drop ins Welcome, if you do not have a training uniform, please wear comfortable clothes
PRIVATE/SEMI PRIVATE IAIDO (SWORD WORK) LESSONS AVAILABLE, PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS 586-3133
instructors
A.I. Lieber, (AKA Yahe Solomon) 6th dan, Shidoin (Certified Teacher) Aikido, 2nd dan Iaido, Chief Instructor of Sei Chu Kan, has 37 years of aikido training, 22 years as an instructor.
Yahe/AI started training aikido at age six with Dr. M. Nakazono and his son, Dr. K. Nakazono. After graduating from the Kototama Institute in 1984, with a Doctor of Oriental Medicine (acupuncture) degree, upon the recommendation of Dr. Masahilo Nakazono, he travelled to San Diego to further his study of aikido under Professor TK Chiba, a direct student of the founder of aikido (who is known as O'Sensei).
He completed the kenshushei (intensive training) program as an uchideshi (live in student) with Professor T.K. Chiba in San Diego, CA.
Sensei also apprenticed as an uchideshi in Hombu Dojo (the headquarters school for aikido) in Japan for almost three years under Mr. K. Ueshiba, the son of the founder of aikido (O'Sensei).
He ran the Connecticut Aikikai dojo in New Haven, CT for ten years after Juba Nour (Shihan, 6th dan) passed it to him. He is the father/stepfather of three children.
Yahe/AI is an acupuncturist and maintains a practice in Bozeman. : see here for more information.
Kelly Burns Solomon, 2nd dan Aikido, has been training in aikido since 1992. She trained as kenshusei, a special intensive training program in aikido, zazen (meditation) and iaido (sword drawing) with Professor T.K. Chiba (8th dan) in San Diego, CA. She also trained under Shihan M. Murashige at the San Diego dojo.
Links: www.birankai.org