Christian Tissier - Aikido in Japan in the 70's & the 8th Dan [Interview Part 3/7 - EN/FR/JA/ZH/KO] 

ENGLISH SUBTITLES: Click on CC to display
SUBSCRIBE: / @seidobudostudies
- Part 1: Leaving France for Japan in the late 60's • Christian Tissier - Le...
- Part 2: A Youngster's life in Japan in the 70's • Christian Tissier - A ...
- 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 3 --
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 3rd part, we now talk about how it was to practice Aikido in Japan in the 70's and how this lead him to 8th dan.
-- SOURCES --
Aikido Journal's archives: aikidojournal.com/
Aikido Initiation Sedirep: amzn.to/2L3FdrE
Facebook page of Christian Tissier Shihan: goo.gl/KCVqgg
A foreigner in Tokyo in 1964: goo.gl/sUCycZ
Alain Delon (by Stevan Kragujević CC BY-SA 3.0 RS): goo.gl/BUzoZp
Gyosei School: goo.gl/aCBYDE
O'Sensei with members of the Imperial Marine: goo.gl/275tza
Children in front of the Yasukuni Shrine in 1941: goo.gl/p4mj95
Lilou Nadenicek: goo.gl/yeoqYi
The Hombu Dojo in 1968: goo.gl/uH96oN
Robert Kubo: goo.gl/xnZjC1
Christian Tissier promoted to 8th Dan Aikikai: goo.gl/7Ly83C
-- 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.
-- SOCIAL NETWORKS --
Facebook: / seidoshop.international
Twitter: / seidoshopint
G+: plus.google.com/+Seidoshop
#ChristianTissier #BudoStudies #BudoInterviews