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2024
Norimasa Iwama, first generation Taikiken of Kenichi Sawai
Norimasa Iwama is first generation Taikiken student of Kenichi Sawai and member of the first Meiji jingu group still training and teaching actively.
Besides a driven Taikiken promoter, Iwama sensei is a first class Karate and kobudo expert, with a lot of practical teaching experience.
Iwama sensei belongs to the first group of Sawai sensei´s students who introduced Taikiken in Europe back in the early nineteen seventies. He was teaching Taikiken in Jan Kallenbachs Shin Bu Ken dojo in Amsterdam Osdorp. You can see Iwama sensei’s sophisticated Taikiken style and training method on a video he made, assisted by Yasuhide Takagi sensei.
The video includes clips of Sawai sensei's teaching and his excellent fighting skills. It also shows some interesting examples of Taikiken sparring..
Iwama sensei published a book about Taikiken in Japanese: Taikiken teachings, Taikiken thinking is the teachings of martial arts as well as of human beings. The 21st century martial art - Taikiken essence is now told! One of his European (Iwama ryu) students has a very interesting web site in French https://www.taikiken.eu, he also has a channel on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/Taikishiseikenpo with a lot of Taikiken clips.
Kenichi Sawai and Iwama Norimasa
Iwama Norimasa Shinho
Iwama Norimasa Sashite