Please join us for our 11th Anniversary Celebration with Michael Friedl Shihan. We're going to have an absolutely wonderful time. Saturday evening we'll have a big party/potluck.

Please join us. We're going to have a great time, with great aikido and great friends.

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Michael Friedl Shihan, 7th Dan, is founder and chief instructor of Aikido of Ashland. He is Division Head for Division 2 of the California Aikido Association. He is also a previous President of the California Aikido Association. Friedl Shihan is Bloksberg Sensei's direct aikido teacher. Friedl Shihan is an extraordinary instructor who teaches aikido seminars throughout the world.

Friedl Shihan began his Aikido training in 1972 under Clyde Takeguchi Shihan in Madison, Wisconsin. Friedl Shihan became a live-in student (also known as a uchi deshi) for Takeguchi Sensei from 1975-1977 in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1978 Friedl Shihan established a dojo in Burlington, Vermont. He moved to Ashland, Oregon in 1979 and started a small aikido club. Friedl Shihan affiliated with Frank Doran Shihan in 1979 and has been a student of his since that time. Friedl Shihan was uchi deshi for Saito Shihan in Iwama, Japan from 1981-1983. There he studied weapons intensely and the Iwama style of weapons remains a strong influence in his weapons style to this day.

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