Brisbane Aikido Republic was launched as an information source with opinion in mid 2009 gathering material from many different sources. In 2010 it established an aikido dojo in Mt. Gravatt with the permission of Aikido Yuishinkai. Here is our gallery of Rogues Instructors Head Instructor, Principal Author Daniel James, somewhat well known in Brisbane circles (you get that if you hang around enough dojos long enough) he has practiced widely established the Brisbane Aikido Republic and continues to look for new ways to understand Aikido Instructor, Author Alison Lane, recently returned from an extended period in New Zealand and leaving behind a very successful dojo, joined us as a regular instructor in 2011 Instructor Anthony Rasmussen, pervasive aikidoka and theoretical physicist, he's been around since the Ki Society days and even organised and hosted Will Reed sensei's recent visit. Instructor Eric Ohlsen, right with us at opening night. Eric fills in when our regulars can't make it to the dojo. Eric inherited aikido from his son and has really made it his own these days. Instructor Aran Bright was introduced to the martial arts as a youngster practising karate, then began his aikido training in 1996 at Spring Hill, he's knocked around the traps a bit and is currently a relief instructor while his dojo (Mizu Aikido) is in recess. Aran Sensei is a lecturer and practicioner in Musculoskeletal Therapy Patron Michael Williams is the patron of our association, for his long standing support of many of our members and sage wisdom as well as developing much of aikido in Australia | Lineage and experience All instructors and contributors follow Aikido through Maruyama Sensei, a principal student of the founder of Aikido and have a continued commitment to learning. Here is a brief lineage and experiences shared by dojo. Technical Advisors We value the ongoing interaction with seniors within the wider organisation as our dojo develops John Ward, the father of Aikido Yuishinkai in Brisbane, provides unique insights from his many adventures in budo Andrew Sunter, We are delighted to have a long term relationship with Andrew Sunter Sensei, as a budo buddy on various adventures, regular visitor and supporter of the dojo and colleague/mentor Ukemi-o-philes Editorial Ben Hamley makes this site so much more readable and sensible as Dan's fingers are like lightening (fast but never strike the same place twice) Contributors Multimedia Simon Russell, long time aikidoka and influenced by his concurrent study of the Chinese martial arts is well known for producing the Aikido Yuishinkai syllabus DVD's ![]() |











