Archive for 29.03.2011

Interview with Jacques Payet Sensei. Novosibirsk, 21 Feb 2011.

Aikilife: Sensei, welcome to Novosibirsk. It’s great honour for us to meet you again.

Jacques Payet: Thank you. It’s a pleasure for me to arrive to your city again.

Aikilife: Osu, Sensei. On the last year seminar you told us, that you decided to start training in Aikido after watching the technique of Shioda Gozo Sensei. What did you personally for yourself see on that tape?

Jacques Payet: Yes. It was an old, old movie of Shioda Gozo demonstration. I saw very tiny, small person, very easily and smoothly throwing very big people. So, it was looking very beautiful, very fast and very dynamic, and they were doing that, while smiling. So I saw that, what the kind of martial art, I wanted to do. (more…)