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Patricia Hendricks is a 7th dan aikido teacher and founder of (Aikido of San Leandro ) She is also the head of division one (the Iwama division) of the (California Aikido Association ) and is the first "menkyo kaiden" in Saito's system of aiki-ken and aiki-jo.〔 〕 Patricia Hendricks as a 7th Dan, Shihan is one of the highest and most noted Aikido instructors in the world. She teaches internationally and runs a full time dojo in San Leandro, California. She has spent more than 7 years being uchideshi, living in dojos, primarily in Iwama, Japan under Morihiro Saito Sensei, a top student of the founder of Aikido, Morihei Ueshiba. She is one of the closest students of Saito Sensei, with numerous appearances in Saito Sensei's books, as well appearing with him in magazine articles and as his uke on major demonstrations〔 including the All Japan Demo held in Tokyo, Japan every year. She started studying Aikido in June 1974 while a student at Monterey Peninsula College in Monterey, California. She had been interested in studying a martial art and found a course in Aikido being offered that semester. The instructor was Mary Heiny, who was a Sandan at that time, and who had recently returned from studying in Japan. It was during that semester of study that she heard about Stan Pranin, who was teaching Aikido to a small group of students in his garage in Monterey. She studied with Stan Pranin until 1977, at which time she and Stan Pranin both moved to Oakland to train with Bruce Klickstein and then with Bill Witt Sensei. Later that same year she moved to Iwama, Japan, where she became uchideshi and a student of Saito Sensei. She returned to Oakland in 1979 and continued studying at the same dojo. Over the next 28 years, she returned regularly to Iwama for brief and long term periods of study with Saito Sensei. During this time, she also earned her degree in Oriental Languages (with emphasis in Japanese) from U.C. Berkeley. In 1984, she founded the Aikido of San Leandro dojo. In 1988, she embarked on a 6 month European tour, combining travel and teaching, before once again returning to Iwama for study as a long-term uchideshi for another 18 months. She presently is the Division 1 head of the CAA organization,〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=CAA Election Results ) 〕 and is authorized by Saito Sensei to conduct weapons testing. She was the first to be awarded Menkyo Kaidan by Saito Morihiro Sensei.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 publisher = California Aikido Association ) 〕 She is one of the pioneering Aikidokas for women.〔 〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patricia Hendricks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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