AIKIDO Lanzarote -Our Sensei

His back and legs would remind him of all his years of practice so he’d tell me:” Jesús, you give
the class” and I was thrilled with the honour.There are three of us oldest students, (and our teachers son Juan Pedro who was a higher Dan than us) my two great friends and companions
Iñaki Sánchez and Guillermo Rabuñal and me, who have kept up practicing unbroken until the
day of today and, for my part if God allows, will continue until the last day in which I will have
to pass on to the other side.

The next teacher I most appreciate and admire is Yasunari Kitaura of whom I have learned many concepts of Aikido.

Since around 1977 I have passed on the teachings of Aikido, first in Bilbao in the Yamagata-gym, after that I founded the Fujiyama-gym in Sestao where for 5 years the teachings were passed
on. It was also this gym that produced a great friend aikidoka and teacher of Aikido Fco. Javier
De la Calle. The group then moved to Baracaldo where great black belts were formed and also inseparable friends made all of whom I love like sons. In 2003 my family and I moved to Lanzarote and left my good friend and teacher Jesús Maria Vázguez in charge of the group in Baracaldo.

At the moment I am giving classes in Costa Teguise to a new group of people from different nationalities (Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Argentinean and English) that show promise of becoming
great aikdokas.

Taking advantage of these pages I would like to profoundly thank our founder Morihei Ueshiba
for passing on Aikido and all teachers I know on international scope, the son of the founder Kissomaru and the current Doshu Moriteru for sharing their knowledge, just like all the aikidokas
I have had the pleasure to get to know and especially all my pupils from the highest degree to the whitest belt from whom I have always learned something.

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			Ever since I was young I wanted to do a martial art but in those days only Judo and Karate were practiced and they weren’t the style my mind perceived, until one day walking down the street I saw on a TV (back then TV’s were rather scarce) the moves I had always wanted to do (so I yelled:” That’s the martial art I want to do!”). And from that moment on, around 1973, I started practicing Aikido with my beloved teacher Gregorio Poderoso who acquired his knowledge of Aikido from his teacher Murashige Aritoshi, 9th Dan in Belgium. I have very fond memories of my teacher as he was a simple man with a big heart, straight and firm, not one for owning medals he didn’t earne. My last memories are of the time in which he was just about to retire.
			His back and legs would remind him of all his years of practice so he’d tell me:” Jesús, you give the class” and I was thrilled with the honour.There are three of us oldest students, (and our teachers son Juan Pedro who was a higher Dan than us) my two great friends and companions Iñaki Sánchez and Guillermo Rabuñal and me, who have kept up practicing unbroken until the day of today and, for my part if God allows, will continue until the last day in which I will have to pass on to the other side. The next teacher I most appreciate and admire is Yasunari Kitaura of whom I have learned many concepts of Aikido. Since around 1977 I have passed on the teachings of Aikido, first in Bilbao in the Yamagata-gym, after that I founded the Fujiyama-gym in Sestao where for 5 years the teachings were passed on. It was also this gym that produced a great friend aikidoka and teacher of Aikido Fco. Javier De la Calle. The group then moved to Baracaldo where great black belts were formed and also inseparable friends made all of whom I love like sons. In 2003 my family and I moved to Lanzarote and left my good friend and teacher Jesús Maria Vázguez in charge of the group in Baracaldo. At the moment I am giving classes in Costa Teguise to a new group of people from different nationalities (Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Argentinean and English) that show promise of becoming great aikdokas. Taking advantage of these pages I would like to profoundly thank our founder Morihei Ueshiba for passing on Aikido and all teachers I know on international scope, the son of the founder Kissomaru and the current Doshu Moriteru for sharing their knowledge, just like all the aikidokas I have had the pleasure to get to know and especially all my pupils from the highest degree to the whitest belt from whom I have always learned something.

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