{"id":3909,"date":"2017-08-01T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T10:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/?page_id=3909"},"modified":"2017-08-04T16:54:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T14:54:49","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/?page_id=3909&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Aikikai Zurich, founded over 40 years ago, had a significant influence on Aikido in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">1959<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">It stated in 1959, when Freddy Jacot stared the Swissair Judo club with about a dozens follow Judokas training in a Gym in Zurich Seebach.<br \/>\nFreddy, as a flight engineer often being in Japan, was exposed to Aikido during his stopovers in Tokio. Soon this martial art was also practices in the Seebach Dojo.<br \/>\nAt the time Aikido was practically unknown in Europe. But martial arts enthusiasts, mostly people with a judo background, started practising movements they called Aikido. There was even talk about Aikido competitions at the time.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">from 1965<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">Freddy Jacot, still with the Aikido branch of the Swissair Judo club started organizing stages with \u00a0\u00a0Nakazono Sensei and Tamura Sensei in Zurich and Herisau, together with Willy Frischknecht&#8217;s group. Mind you, this was all at a time when O\u2019Sensei was still alive and teaching.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">21.09.1969<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">After the creation of a Swiss Aikido club failed the Association<br \/>\nCulturelle Suisse d\u2019Aikido (ACSA) was founded on 21. September 1969 \u00a0in Willy Frischknecht living room. Its first president was Freddy Jacot.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">1971<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">The Aikido Section of the Swissair Judoclub becomes its own association, called Aikikai-Zurich and joins the ACSA.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">ca. 1980<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">In a basement in Seebach the Aikidokas build their very first and<br \/>\nown Dojo.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">1983<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">The Dojo moves to a bigger space at Fl\u00fcelastrasse in Altstetten<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">1989<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">Only six years later another move to Hardturmstrasse 76<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">1991<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">The Aiki-Kai Z\u00fcrich joins the FSA \u00a0(Federation Suisse<br \/>\nd\u2019Aikido). Every year it invites Tamura Sensei to a stage, where FSA members have the possibility to take their Dan graduations.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">2004<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">Move to a bigger Dojo to\u00a0Hardturmstrasse 169<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">2015<\/td>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background-color: white;\">Yet another move to today&#8217;s address Bernerstrasse Nord 182<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3698 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FREDDY-SW-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FREDDY-SW-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/FREDDY-SW.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>16.12.2007<\/p>\n<p>Freddy Jacot our founder and 5. dan leaves us. Freddy was Aikikai Zurich&#8217;s President for many years and thought us as an experienced teacher for many years. Since its inauguration Freddy was a member of FSA&#8217;s technical commission. In recognition of his work Tamura Sensei honoured \u00a0Freddy 2002 with a 5. Dan. His memory, his dynamic style and spirit continue living in our Dojo!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aikikai Zurich, founded over 40 years ago, had a significant influence on Aikido in Switzerland. 1959 It stated in 1959, when Freddy Jacot stared the Swissair Judo club with about a dozens follow Judokas training in a Gym in Zurich Seebach. Freddy, as a flight engineer often being in Japan, was exposed to Aikido &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/?page_id=3909&#038;lang=en\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201eHistory\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3909","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3955,"href":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3909\/revisions\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aikikai-test.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}