[1][2] His father was instrumental in helping to bring Koichi Tohei to Hawaii in order to introduce the art to the United States in 1953.
[3] He got his early training starting in 1957 under Yukiso Yamamoto, Kazuto Sugimoto, and Isao Takahashi in Hawaii, and under Tohei in Japan.
[1][2] He became a full-time professional instructor in 1968,[1] and was promoted to being one of only two foreign members of the instruction staff at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo.
of California State University at Fullerton as a lecturer in 1972, where he began teaching aikido classes.
[1] He resigned from the Ki Society in 1981, at which time he founded the Seidokan style and organization.