Velibor Vesovic

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Velibor Vesovic

Born	1955 Belgrade, Serbia
Official site	ARS Studio

Velibor Vesovic is an aikido teacher from Serbia.

Vesovic begun his training in 1973 at the club "Partizan-Banjica" with Jovica Stanojevic obtaining shodan in 1978 from Hiroshi Tada. In 1980 he opened his first dojo named "Tašmajdan" ( later "Abraševic", and now "ARS" ) in Belgrade.

During the years he attended numerous seminars internationally most notably under Hiroshi Tada, Hideki Hosokawa, Koichi Tohei and Jodzi Fudzimota. The latter was responsible fro his promotions this fourth dan. From fifth dan his exams were taken in front of Masatomi Ikeda. He obtained sixth dan in 2005.

Velibor Vesoviæ is the president of Serbian Aikido Federation (SAF). Besides the territory of former Yugoslavia, Vesovic has given seminaries in Holland, Germany and the South African republic. He is the highest ranked aikido teacher in the ex-Yugoslav region and during his almost 30 year long aikido career he has produced more than 30 yudansha.