Paul Zimmerman Sensei Receives Shodan

Appalachian Ki Aikido is pleased to announce that our own Sensei Paul Zimmerman has achieved the rank of Shodan (first degree black belt). On March 28th, many were fortunate to participate in Zimmerman Sensei's test under the direction of David Shaner Sensei.

Heartfelt congratulations go out from all the members of Appalachian Ki Aikido in Boone to Mr. Zimmerman, and heartfelt thanks are extended to David Shaner and the myriad other people, too numerous to name, that helped make the test and the seminar a success.

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Terry Pierce and Mayumi Case sensei's will be at our dojo saturday August 2nd for multiple pre-tests. We will start @ 9:30am and go until around 4pm.

Our own Chris McKinney and Ryan Smith will be at World Camp and Taigi competition June 23-28. Chris will be competing in his first Taigi competition,and teaching us all in the weeks to follow.

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