Michele Quaranta
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Michele Quaranta is an aikido
teacher who holds the rank of 6th dan
Aikikai
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Professional profile: He was a professional football player in FC Nordstern (premier league) in the past. He was working as a professional football coach for a certain period of time, and also worked as a bank clerk. Finally he turns profesionally towards aikido. For 20 years he was continuously an assistant of M. Ikeda sensei. After the retirement of Ikeda sensei from the active aikido life in 2001, Quaranta sensei continues to teach and to spread out the aikido by the methodology inherited from M. Ikeda sensei.
Aikido schools: He founded his own dojo in Basel (Switzerland) in 1983 (www.aikidoschule-basel.ch). All over Europe there are numerous schools with over 3000 aikidokas that he mentors.
Internationally, he is known as the Technical manager and member of the technical committees of various countries which appreciate his ability and dedication to aikido. With the right to award degrees up to (including) 4th Dan in the Slovakian aikido association at the time when he was a bearer of 5th Dan and the title Shidoin, makes him the only example in the world with that permission granted by the Aikikai Hombu.
Apart from aikido he is also teaching HOJO (a discipline developed at the famous school Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage Ryu which exists from the 14th century.
Seminars: He holds aikido seminars in these countries: Switzerland, Poland, Croatia, Ireland, Slovakia, Czech, Netherlands, Ukraine, Macedonia, Egypt, Serbia, Bulgaria and G. Britain.
Hobbies: music, gastronomy and football.
Aikido
is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious spirit." Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to...
teacher who holds the rank of 6th dan
Dan rank
The ranking system is a Japanese mark of level, which is used in modern fine arts and martial arts. Originally invented in a Go school in the Edo period, this system was applied to martial arts by Kanō Jigorō, the founder of judo and later introduced to other East Asia countries.In the modern...
Aikikai
Aikikai
The Aikikai is the original school of Aikido. It is centered on the Aikikai Foundation in Japan, and its figurehead is the Doshu . It is represented globally through the International Aikido Federation....
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Biography
Starting in 1972, he has been practicing aikido for almost 40 years continually. He holds the rank of 6th Dan in aikido. He was a student and assistant (uke) of Masatomi Ikeda sensei for 20 years and followed him to almost all his seminars.Professional profile: He was a professional football player in FC Nordstern (premier league) in the past. He was working as a professional football coach for a certain period of time, and also worked as a bank clerk. Finally he turns profesionally towards aikido. For 20 years he was continuously an assistant of M. Ikeda sensei. After the retirement of Ikeda sensei from the active aikido life in 2001, Quaranta sensei continues to teach and to spread out the aikido by the methodology inherited from M. Ikeda sensei.
Aikido schools: He founded his own dojo in Basel (Switzerland) in 1983 (www.aikidoschule-basel.ch). All over Europe there are numerous schools with over 3000 aikidokas that he mentors.
Internationally, he is known as the Technical manager and member of the technical committees of various countries which appreciate his ability and dedication to aikido. With the right to award degrees up to (including) 4th Dan in the Slovakian aikido association at the time when he was a bearer of 5th Dan and the title Shidoin, makes him the only example in the world with that permission granted by the Aikikai Hombu.
Apart from aikido he is also teaching HOJO (a discipline developed at the famous school Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage Ryu which exists from the 14th century.
Seminars: He holds aikido seminars in these countries: Switzerland, Poland, Croatia, Ireland, Slovakia, Czech, Netherlands, Ukraine, Macedonia, Egypt, Serbia, Bulgaria and G. Britain.
Hobbies: music, gastronomy and football.
Teachers
The following person have been his most influential teacher:- Masatomi IkedaMasatomi IkedaMasatomi Ikeda is a Japanese aikido teacher who holds the rank of 7th dan Aikikai.- Biography :...
, 7th dan Aikikai shihan
Colleagues
- Francesco Marrella, 6th dan Aikikai
- Daniel Vetter, 6th dan Aikikai
- Therese Uhr, 5th dan Aikikai