Hiroshi Ikeda

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Ikeda-Shihan teaches at 2003 Summer Camp in the Rockies
Ikeda-Shihan teaches at 2003 Summer Camp in the Rockies

Hiroshi Ikeda (b. 1950) is a Japanese aikido teacher. He holds the rank of 7th dan, awarded by Mitsugi Saotome of the Aikikai.

Ikeda was born in Tokyo and began studying aikido in 1968 while attending college at Kokugakin University in Tokyo. He relocated to Sarasota, Florida in 1976, and taught there under Saotome from 1978-1979. Then, in 1980, he moved to Boulder to establish a dojo there under Saotome's organization, Aikido Schools of Ueshiba.

He currently lives in Boulder, where operates both his dojo Boulder Aikikai, and his martial arts supply company Bujin Design. He also travels frequently to conduct seminars both in the United States and abroad.

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