Shoji Nishio Sensei

SHOJI  NISHIO  SESEI

8th Dan Aikikai

Dec 1927 - 15 Mar 2005

Started in Aikido at the Hombu Dojo in 1951 and by 1955 was promoted to shihan.   Nishio Sensei worked at the Yokohama Mint for a great many years.  He started during the war, probably while he was still in high school.  

In an Aiki News magazine article, Sensei states that he practiced Karate and Judo very diligently throughout the 1940's.  One day one of his very respected sempai (senior student or sensei) came in and told him "I met a ghost!  You have got to go see this man!"  Shoji did go to see O'Sensei.   Then he says he never returned to Karate, yet there are Karate and Judo elements sprinkled liberally throughout his Aikido. 

Some time in the late 1950's or early 1960's A respected sensei of Karate, Judo and Iaido who ran a (prewar) hotel in Yokohama requested a teacher of Aikido be sent to teach in his Dojo.  This was the Matso Dojo which was about a 10 to 15 minute walk from the Yokohama train station.   Nishio Sensei taught there until the dojo and hotel were closed in the winter of 1992 to be rebuilt as a modern hotel.  The Matsuo Dojo became famous in the early 1960's because they had national champions in multiple arts Judo, Kendo, Karate and perhaps other arts, for multiple years. 

Every year Sensei would travel to various countries in Europe and the Americas; Sweden, Denmark, Ukraine, perhaps Finland, around the U.S., Mexico and perhaps, at one time or another, South America as well, maybe Brazil. 

Various Videos of Nishio Sensei
These videos are captured from the web.   I did not put these up, I'm only directing you to them.   Some of them are obviously Aiki News or Aikido Journal.  The videos I put up were filmed from my camera. 

Nishio Sensei, in the samurai frame of mind, did not seem to be concerned with expansive monetary gain from what he developed.  Perhaps because he was in continual development and improvement, Kaizen.   (What he was doing today, might not be what he would be teaching tomorrow.)  Perhaps he was more concerned continuing development and disemination of  O'Sensei's art.  By not stipulating limitations, the art and geniuses of O'Sensei and his students gets diseminated faster and farther. 

In the larger frame of things, O'Sensei was developing geniuses and his students are expanding and developing more geniuses. 

Please enjoy the videos I have gathered here.  

  • Aiki Toho Iaido

    • Shoji Nishio Sensei Demo

    Bokken


    • Nishio Sensei - 2nd Aikido Friendship Demonstration


    • Aikido Shoji Nishio Sensei entire clip


    • Aikido - Nishio Sensei seminar 1 (5)


    • Aikido - Nishio Sensei seminar 2 (5)


    • Aikido - Nishio Sensei seminar 3 (5)


    • Aikido - Nishio Sensei seminar 4 (5)


    • Aikido - Nishio Sensei seminar 5 (5)


    • Nishio Aikido: Iriminage


    • Nishio Aikido: Shihonage


    • Nishio aikido: Yokomenuchi Gokyo


    • Tekubiosae Aihanmi Nikyo Shoji Nishio Aikido Toho Iai 07


    • Tsukaosae Gyakuhanmi Nikyo Shoji Nishio Aikido Toho Iai 06


    • Nishio Sensei Sengogiri (Mugai Ryuu)


    • Nishio Sensei Maegiri (Eishin Ryuu)


    • Nishio Sensei Uke Nageshi (Shindoo Munen Ryuu)


    • Nishio Sensei Gyakuhanmi Nikkyo


    • Nishio Sensei Aihanmi Sankyo


    • Nishio Sensei Gyakuhanmi Nikkyo ken tai jo


    • Aihanmi Nikkyo (ken tai jo)


    • Aihanmi Ikkyo


    • Shoji Nishio Sensei - gyakuhanmi Ikkyo


    • Shoji Nishio Sensei - Nikyo


    • Aikido demonstration by Shoji Nishio Sensei


    • Shoji Nishio Sensei in middle Europe


    • Toho iai demonstration by Shoji Nishio Sensei


    • Shoji Nishio-AIKI TOHO IAI


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    Clips I have loaded

  • Nishio Sensei 0001 Kokyunage 5-7-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0002 Katamenuchi Iikyo blend 5-7-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0003 Katamenuchi Kotegaeshi 5-7-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0004 Kotegaeshi 4-27-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0005 Kotegaeshi blend 5-7-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0006 Katamenuchi Nikyo blend 5-7-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0007 Iriminage 5-12-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0008 Irimi Kotegaeshi 5-12-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0009 Iaido Shihonage 7-28-93
  • Nishio Sensei 0010 Nikyo boken 5-11-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0011 Nikyo ken vs ken 5-11-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0012 Nikyo jo vs ken 5-11-92
  • Nishio Sensei 0013 Kaitenage Nikyo
  • Nishio Sensei 0014 Katatedori Yonkyo
  • Nishio Sensei 0015 katatedori Iikyo Ura
  • Nishio Sensei 0016 Katatedori Iikyo Ura w- boken
  • Nishio Sensei 0017 Tsuki Iikyo ken vs ken
  • Nishio Sensei 0018 Iriminage boken vs boken
  • Nishio Sensei 0019 Irimi with Jo vs boken
  • Nishio Sensei 0020 Tsuki Iikyo jo vs ken
  • Nishio Sensei 0023 Yokomenuchi Iikyo Ura
  • Nishio Sensei 0024 Yokomenuchi Nikyo Ura

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    Cell: 352-494-7816
    Email:  
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    New Practice Times (1.5hr. classes)

    Sundays..............................Weapons.......................................................2:00-3:30pm
    Sundays .............................Empty Hand...................................................4:00-5:30pm
    Sundays .............................Advanced Empty Hand...................................6:00-7:30pm
     ................. (Must pass 3rd proficiency test to participate in advanced class)
    Mondays & Fridays............ Aikido After Noon.........................................1:00-2:30pm
    Mondays............................Empty Hand....................................................7:30-9:00pm
    Tuesdays & Thursdays....... Aikido for Kids................................................4:00-5:30pm
    Wednesdays .....................Empty Hand......................................................7:30-9:00pm Thursdays.........................Open(Weapons Take-aways, test practice, etc.)..7:30-9:00pm
    Mondays & Wednesdays ...Iaido (Japanese Sword $10 per class)................6:15-7:15pm 

        

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