Christian Tissier - A Youngster's life in Japan in the 70's [Interview Part 2/7 - EN/FR/JA/ZH/KO] 

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- Part 1: Leaving France for Japan in the late 60's • Christian Tissier - Le...
- Part 3: Aikido in Japan in the 70's & the 8th Dan • Christian Tissier - Ai...
- Part 4: Finding one's own place through Aikido • Christian Tissier - F...
- Part 5: The Master/Student Relation, Teaching Honestly • Christian Tissier - Th...
- Part 6: Aikido as a Way of Education • Christian Tissier - Ai...
- Part 7: The Meaning & Goals of Aikido's Practice • Christian Tissier - Th...
-- PRESENTATION: INTERVIEW CHRISTIAN TISSIER PART 2 --
Christian Tissier is a French Aikido practitioner, one of the very few non-Japanese in History to have reached the title of 8th Dan Shihan. He started Aikido at the age of 11 and is now one of the biggest influences in the International Aikido community.
Willing to get to the roots of his art, he embarked in the trans-Siberian train at the age of 18 for a journey to Japan, and started to train at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo where he stayed 7 years, honing his skills and learning the language and culture of Japan.
Now, at the age of 67, he gives seminar all around the globe throughout the year, including Japan. It is on one of those occasions that he offered us the opportunity to sit together in the legendary Butokuden of Kyoto, to talk about his personal relation to Aikido for over an hour.
In that episode, Christian describes what it’s like to live as a foreigner in Japan in the early 70s: how he got his visa, how he had the opportunity to get into the French-Japanese Institute, the people he had the chance to meet, the French community at the time… and the influence it had on his personality.
-- SOURCES --
Aikido Journal's archives: aikidojournal.com/
Aikido Initiation Sedirep: amzn.to/2L3FdrE
Facebook page of Christian Tissier Shihan: goo.gl/KCVqgg
Gyosei School: goo.gl/aCBYDE
French Institute (by Wiiii CC BY-SA 3.0): goo.gl/KmLArL
Aikikai Pereire: goo.gl/GA4F4M
Jean-François Perrin: goo.gl/XfVYp2
Terry Dobson: goo.gl/2pBBRN
Takahashi Sensei and Bill Ahana: goo.gl/JW3jUe
Ginza in 1973: goo.gl/DtGjV7
A foreigner in Tokyo in 1964: goo.gl/sUCycZ
-- CREDITS --
Director: Jordy Delage
Editing & Camera: Jordy Delage & Nicolas Nothum
Music: Senbazuru - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) CC 3.0
Narrator: Brian Kamei
Translation & subtitles: Naoko Mikami, Thomas Jousse, Jordy Delage, Jean-François Rauch, 周彥博 (ZH) & Sung Ju-hwan (KO)
With special thanks to the renovation team for its innovative drilling musical arrangement.
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