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About
the Rocky Mountain Ki Society
Rocky
Mountain Ki Society is a non-profit educational organization
formed to share the principles of KI and KI-AIKIDO with the
greatest number of people
regardless of race, color, gender, religion, national or
ethnic origin.
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Society is formed by four dojos along the Rocky Mountain Front Range: the
HQ dojo in Westminster, Fort Collins Ki-Aikido at CSU,
the Denver Ki-Aikido dojo of Susan Chandler Sensei and
the Boulder Ki-Aikido. RMKS
was founded in 1977 by Koichi Kashiwaya Sensei
(8th Dan Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido, Okuden Ki Development,
US Chief Instructor). Its first dojo was located in Boulder,
Colorado.
During the following years more RMKS groups formed: under
Russ Smith the Fort Collins dojo in
1979, which was incorporated into CSU's sports program in
1980, and the later HQ dojo by Kevin Eva and other
instructors in Denver around 1981.
After some location changes and the closure of the
Boulder branch, Susan Chandler Sensei established her
dojo in Denver's South and the
Headquarters of RMKS moved into a new dojo in Westminster
in Spring 1998.
Abel Villacorta opened the Boulder
Ki-Aikido dojo in April 1999 to provide
continuing practice for students after the CU Boulder
introduction class.
After Kashiwaya Sensei's
relocation to the Seattle Ki Society in 1990, RMKS was
headed by one of Kashiwaya Sensei's original Uchi Deshi,
Russell Jones Sensei (5th Dan Shin Shin Toitsu Aikido,
Chuden Ki Development). He moved to Brazil in 1998.
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Koichi Kashiwaya Sensei
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Russell Smith Sensei
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Our current Head Instructor is Russell
Smith Sensei, 4th Dan, Chuden in Ki Development.
He teaches the Ki-Aikido classes at CSU Fort
Collins for almost thirty years now! RMKS's regular instructor core in the four
dojos includes:
- Russell Smith, 4th Dan, CSU
Fort Collins
- Susan Chandler, 4th Dan,
Denver
- Derek Nabel, 3rd Dan,
Westminster
- Lance McClure, 3rd Dan,
Westminster
- Ron Charpentier, 3rd Dan,
Westminster
- Abel Villacorta, 3rd Dan,
Boulder
- David Hills, 1st Dan, Denver
- Jennifer Niessink-Trotter,
1st Dan, Boulder
- Bill Stanley, 1st Dan,
Boulder
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