Christian Tissier - Leaving France for Japan in the late 60's [Interview Part 1/7 - EN/FR/JP/ZH/KO]

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-- PRESENTATION: INTERVIEW CHRISTIAN TISSIER PART 1 --
Christian Tissier is a French Aikido practitioner, one of the very few non-Japanese in History to have reached the title of 8th Dan Shihan. He started Aikido at the age of 11 and is now one of the biggest influences in the International Aikido community.
Willing to get to the roots of his art, he embarked in the trans-Siberian train at the age of 18 for a journey to Japan, and started to train at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo where he stayed 7 years, honing his skills and learning the language and culture of Japan.

Now, at the age of 67, he gives seminar all around the globe throughout the year, including Japan. It is on one of those occasions that he offered us the opportunity to sit together in the legendary Butokuden of Kyoto, to talk about his personal relation to Aikido for over an hour.

In this first part, Christian Tissier talks about his first trip to Japan and how he almost thoughtlessly embarked on a three weeks journey to Japan on board of the Trans-Siberian.

-- SOURCES --
Aikido Journal's archives: https://aikidojournal.com/
Christian Tissier Sensei's Aikido 8th dan Promotion: https://goo.gl/doQ1Vh
Christian Tissier being handed his award by Japan's ambassador: https://goo.gl/uyGn4u
Facebook page of Christian Tissier Shihan: https://goo.gl/KCVqgg
Aikido Initiation Sedirep: https://amzn.to/2L3FdrE
Mutsuro Nakazono: https://goo.gl/hBuUsy
Masuda Seijuro: https://goo.gl/ica96L
Endo Seishiro: https://goo.gl/cKM7EY
Seigo Yamaguchi with Christian Tissier: https://goo.gl/oAEEnQ
O'Sensei and Ueshiba Kisshomaru: https://goo.gl/NGphVr
Morihei Ueshiba: Way of Harmony: https://goo.gl/y1eCfu
Facebook page of the Iwama Shinshin Aikido: https://goo.gl/eDnikB
An Introduction to Koichi Tohei: https://goo.gl/YYgG2C
Kisshomaru Ueshiba Demonstration (1980): https://goo.gl/F5DwQN
Felix Roussel: https://goo.gl/5KaJbZ
Messageries Maritimes (Bbmanu92 CC BY-SA 4.0): https://goo.gl/QgMzfE
An Israeli gunboat passes through the Straits of Tiran in 1967: https://goo.gl/NYefDu
Trans-Siberian: Nick Farnhill https://goo.gl/qtpsEo & Boccaccio1 https://goo.gl/Xy9ZQJ
Gare du Nord (8474tim CC-BY-SA 3.0): https://goo.gl/FuYj9q
Moscow in the 1970’s (Andris Malygin CC-BY-SA 3.0): https://goo.gl/to9ZBn
Berlin in 1980: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-W0424-0016 CC-BY-SA 3.0: https://goo.gl/P58VGB
Volkspolizei: https://goo.gl/WkkBpL
Yokohama Port: https://goo.gl/8ajN1f
Tokyo in 1968: https://goo.gl/ogW8hz

-- CREDITS --
Director: Jordy Delage
Editing & Camera: Jordy Delage & Nicolas Nothum
Music: Senbazuru - Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) CC 3.0
Narrator: Brian Kamei
Translation & subtitles: Naoko Mikami (JP), Thomas Jousse, Jordy Delage, Jean-François Rauch, 周彥博 (ZH) & Sung Ju-hwan (KO)

With special thanks to the renovation team for its innovative drilling musical arrangement.

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