Dates: May 22-24, 2015
Venue: Suginami Aikikai San Francisco
Address: 141 11th street, San Francisco, CA 94103 (map)

Christian Tissier was born in Paris, February 7, 1951. He started studying Aikido in 1962 with Jean-Claude Tavernier, then soon afterwards with Master Nakazono.

Christian Tissier was immediately seen as an exceptionally gifted student, and was awarded his second Dan by his Master in 1968, when he was only 17 years old. But it was in January of 1969 that he realized his dream: To go to Japan, to the world headquarters, to study under, and to train with, the great experts of this art that he chose, Aikido. He left for a six-month trip, but ended up staying seven years in the land of the rising sun.

He trained with all of the Aikido Masters, but mainly with Doshu and Seigo Yamagushi, to whom he became a favorite disciple, Mitsugi Saotome and the great Osawa Sensei, technical director of the Aikikai.

Outside his martial arts classes, Christian Tissier studied Japanese at the Tokyo School for the Japanese Language and at Sophia University. At the same time, and to make ends meet, he taught French at high school and at the French-Japanese Institute in Tokyo.

He was a 4th Dan when he decided to go back to France in July 1976. In the Paris suburb of Vincennes, he created the Christian Tissier Circle, from which many teachers were trained, as were most of the technical delegates to the French Federation of Aikido, Aikibudo and Related Arts (FFAAA). Frequently visiting Japan, the Aikikai awarded him his 5th Dan in 1981 and 6th Dan in 1986. The French National Committee of Interfederal Ranking gave him his 7th Dan in 1997 and Doshu Kisshomaru Ueshiba himself awarded him his 7th Dan, in Japan, in January 1998, in the presence of his future successor, his son, Moriteru Ueshiba.

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