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Shoreikan Dojo

Shoreikan (pronounced Shore-Ray-Kant) Dojo was established by Mr Tony Chung and Mr Lai Hon Meng in 2001. The Dojo was set-up initially as a place for fellow aikidokas to meet and practice the Yoshinkan style of aikido as is taught at Honbu. The inspiration for this Dojo came from the teachings of Tsutomo Chida Sensei, the current Chief Instructor and Dojo-cho at Honbu Dojo, when he first came to Malaysia in 1999 for a demonstration followed by a seminar. He was the first of the senior senseis from Yoshinkan Hombu that visited us. His teachings were quite a revelation to us all.

The Dojo was named by Mr Yorikazu Nakao, a good friend of ours and also a regular 6 th Dan student from Honbu. The name was endorsed by the present Head of Yoshinkan Aikido, Kyoichi Inoue Kancho and formally registered with International Yoshinkan Aikido Federation on 2004.

"Sho" means respect.

"Rei" means courtesy, chivalry in martial arts.

"Kan" means a martial arts studio i.e. a Dojo.

Both Tony and Lai are not full time instructors at the Dojo. Tony runs a successful interior decoration business and Lai is involved in his family's distribution business.

The love of aikido is what draws them to setup this Dojo and to teach and share with whoever wishes to learn aikido as is taught at Honbu Dojo. Both instructors have been to Honbu for training - the last occasion for 3 weeks where they successfully took their 2 nd Dan test and the Shodan instructor test at Honbu. In fact they have the distinction of being the first Malaysians to take the instructor test at Honbu.

A lot of this would not have been achieved if not for the encouragement and support of Honbu Dojo, in particular,Inoue Kanjo, Chida Dojocho and last but not the very least Saburo Takashima sensei. Both Tony and Lai would also like to thank Joe Thambu sensei from Shudokan Melbourne, for his encouragement, as well as Sonny Loke sensei for his blessing and a few other fellow Malaysian aikidokas for their continuing support.