Jack Mumpower
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Jack Mumpower (born in Charlotte, North Carolina) is one of the US aikido pioneers. He started one of the earliest aikido dojos in the US, in Stallings, North Carolina, in the 1960s. Mumpower studied Tomiki Aikido at Waseda University under Kenji Tomiki as a service member stationed at Camp Drake in Tokyo, Japan. As a result of his early training and establishment in the United States, he is considered one of the grandfathers of United States aikido.
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