Opterećenje je u svakom vidu otići u Japan samo ovom prilikom ali sam smatrao da je to trenutak u životu svakog aikidoke koji dođe na taj nivo, da je u obavezi prema Srpskom aikidou i samom sebi da prisustvuje tome činu.

Susreo sam više značajnih Shihana, pričao sa njima. Zadovoljstvo je bilo prići gromadi kao što je Tada Hiroshi i pitati ga dali se seća Beograda 1974., seminara koji sam organizovao sa njim i kada je bio gost kod mene kući na ručku. Samo je prozborio nešto kao Hm. Kada sam mu reko da sam došao na svečanost da primim diploma 7.Dan – / Nanadan /, prozborio je nešto kao Ooo!. U toku ceremonije sedeo sam sa Wilko Vreismanom Gen.Sekretarom IAF i tom prilikom smo razgovarali o više interesantnih tema.

Bilo je preko tri stotine učesnika svečanosti i druženja na kraju uz sake i slatkiše, nakon toga, kruna svega je prijem diploma od Došua u njegovoj kući što je posebna čast i zadovoljstvo. Barem to svečano uručenje je do sada prvi put učinjeno, kome drugom nego pioniru Aikidoa kod nas. Mislio sam da to tako treba da bude i zato sam učinio taj napor, na kraju bilo je zadovoljstvo moje.

Dear Aikido.
By sharing my personal satisfaction with you, I share photos from the event KAGIMIBIRAKI - 2019.

The burden is in every way to go to Japan only on this occasion, but I thought that this is the moment in the life of every Aikidoca that comes to that level, that it is obliged to the Serbian Aikido and to himself to attend this act.

I met more important Shihan, talked to them. It was a pleasure to see a thunderbolt like Tada Hiroshi and ask him if he remembered Belgrade in 1974, a seminar I organized with him and when he was guest at my house at lunch. He just read something like Hm. When I told him that I had come to the ceremony to receive Diploma 7.Dan - / Nanadan /, he pronounced something like Ooo !. During the ceremony, I sat with Wilko Vreisman, General Secretary of the IAF, and on that occasion we discussed more interesting topics.

There were over three hundred participants in the ceremony and socializing in the end with sake and sweets, after which, the crown of everything was the reception of the diploma from Doshu in his home which is a special honor and pleasure. At least that solemn ceremony was done for the first time, to someone else than the Aikido pioneer in our country. I thought that it should be so, and that's why I did it, in the end, it was my pleasure.

Aikido savez Srbije kao jedna od najstarijih organizacija u Evropi, /samo 7 zemalja Evrope je nešto starije/, proslavila je 27. i 28. oktobra svojih 50 godina postojanja. Imali smo čast i zadovoljstvo da nam je proslavu uveličao najpoznatiji učitelj današnjice gospodin Yoshimitsu Yamada 8Dan Shihan, kao i njegov pratilac iz francuske Aikido Federacije, gospodin Robert Le Vourch 6Dan Shihan. Obojica su se smenjivala naizmenično u oba dana.

Pre dvadeset godina, na proslavi trideset godina rada, bila su dva velikana aikidoa, Nobuyoshi Tamura 8Dan Shihan i Yoshimitsu Yamada 8Dan shihan.

To je bilo prvi put i možda nikada više da u istom trenutku na godišnjici Aikido saveza Srbije, budu dva tako velika učitelja.

Ovoga puta, imamo utisak da je učitelj Yamada, sećajući se toga vremena, dao sve od sebe, da nas ispuni zadovoljstvom, šireći pozitivnu energiju sve vreme, iako je ušao u devetu deceniju života.

Zadovoljstvo su imali svi učesnici a bilo ih je iz 21 zemlje: Rusije, Holandije, Francuske, Poljske, Belgije, Slovačke, Nemačke, Španije, Italije, Luksemburga, Austrije, Mađarske, Rumunije, Turske, Bugarske, Izraela, Albanije, C.Gore, Hrvatske i BIH. U dva dana na strunjači su trenirali i radili 280 učesnika na osnovu evidentiranog spiska.

Za proslavu nismo angažovali mlađe kategorije, jer one nebi mogle da prate program, sa jedne strane, a sa druge trebao bi nam veći prostor i duplo veća strunjača.

Ovu manifestaciju su otvorili i propratili, načelnik za sport Ministarstva R.Srbije dr. Mirko Kantar, podpredsednik Sportskog saveza Srbije Dragoljub Kočović, predstavnik gradskog sekretarijata za sport Novica Todosijević, Predsednik Sportskog saveza Beograda Dragan Tomašević, regionalni savetnik za Srbiju, američke ambasade Michael Kopper, podpredsednik Evropske Aikido Federacije Luc Vermeulen. Luc Vermeulen je u ime EAF predao Mirku Jovandiću zahvalnicu za razvoj aikidoa u Evropi, koje je bilo propraćeno velikim aplauzom. Takođe, predsednik U.O. Aikido saveza Srbije Dragan Kuzmanović, predao je plaketu gospodinu Mirku Jovandić uz zahvalnost za sve što je učinio za aikido u ovih pedeset godina rada. Frenetičan aplauz je bio nakon govora Yamade Shihana u kome je promovisao našeg pionira aikidoa u Srbiji, Mirka Jovandića u 7Dan Aikikai Hombu.

JUBILEE 50 YEARS OF ORGANIZATIONAL WORK IN AIKIDO IN REPUBLIC OF SERBIA AND BELGRADE

The Aikido Union of Serbia, as one of the oldest organizations in Europe, /only 7 European countries is somewhat older / celebrated its 50th anniversary on October 27th and 28th. We had the honor and pleasure that our celebration was enhanced by the most famous teacher of today Mr. Yoshimitsu Yamada 8Dan Shihan, as well as his companion from the French Aikido Federation, Mr. Robert Le Vourch 6Dan Shihan. Both of them were exchanging alternately in both days.

Twenty years ago, at the celebration of thirty years of work, there were two giants of Aikido, Nobuyoshi Tamura 8Dan Shihan and Yoshimitsu Yamada 8Dan Shihan.

It was the first time and perhaps never again at the same time on the anniversary of the Aikido Union of Serbia, being two such great teachers.

This time, we have the impression that Yamada, remembering that time, has done his best to fill us with pleasure, spreading positive energy all the time, even though he entered the ninth decade of his life.

There were all participants from 21 countries: Russia, the Netherlands, France, Poland, Belgium, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Luxembourg, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Turkey, Bulgaria, Israel, Albania, C. Gore , Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In two days, 280 participants were trained and worked on matrices based on the registered list.

We did not engage in the younger categories for the celebration, because they could not follow the program, on the one hand, and on the other, we should have larger space and a double larger matrix.

This event was opened and followed by the Chief of Sports of the Ministry of the Republic of Serbia, dr. Mirko Kantar, vice president of the Sports Association of Serbia Dragoljub Kočović, representative of the city sports secretariat Novica Todosijević, President of the Sports Association of Belgrade Dragan Tomašević, Regional Advisor for Serbia, Michael Kopper, Vice President of the European Aikido Federation Luc Vermeulen. On behalf of the EAF, Luc Vermeulen handed Mirko Jovandic a thank-you for the development of aikido in Europe, which was accompanied by a great applause. Also, President U.O. Aikido Federation of Serbia Dragan Kuzmanović, handed the plaque to Mr. Mirko Jovandić, with gratitude for everything he did for aikido in these fifty years of work. A frenetic applause was after the speech of Yamada Shihan in which he promoted our Aikido pioneer in Serbia, Mirko Jovandic at 7Dan Aikikai Hombu.

Time flew by, and in 2018 Belgrade and Serbia can praise the fact that only few European countries celebrated fifty years anniversary just a few years ago.