About Mumonkan Aikido Club

HomeAbout the Mumonkan club.

The Mumonkan Aikido Club official website publishes reports on recent events and announcements about upcoming events, news, information about events in the world of Aikido and other martial arts, answers to frequently asked questions about Aikido, Mumonkan club and the training process. In "Photo" and "Video" sections you can see the photo reports about trainings and seminars, which were held on the basis of the our club, and technical execution of some Aikido holds.

Our objectives

• Achievement of psychological and physical balance through technical perfection.

Our goals

• Detailed analysis of Aikido techniques.
• Filling Aikido form with practical contents.
• Studying attacks and counteraction of the attacker.
• Keeping traditions along with adapting techniques to the present.
• Connection with the experience of other martial arts.

History of the Mumonkan club

Mumonkan Aikido Club was founded by Mr. Vitaliy Goleshev on 13 May, 1997.

Vitaliy Goleshev

4 Dan Aikido Aikikai.
Head of the Mumonkan Aikido Club.

Vitaliy Goleshev was certified for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Dan in Moscow by Mr. Hironobu Yamada (7 Dan Aikido Aikikai), and he was certified for 4th Dan in Minsk by Mr. Makoto Ito (6 Dan Aikido Aikikai). Vitaliy's experience in Aikido is 25 years (from 1995), in single combats – more than 30 years (from 1988). Before Aikido he practiced the following: Boxing, Shotokan Karate (silver medal winner of Belarus Open Championship), Kickboxing (a candidate for Master of sports, the silver medal winner of Perm region championship), Sanda (the champion of Belarus), hand-to-hand fighting during service in Airborne forces (the champion of the regiment).

Vitaliy Goleshev's sertificates are presented below.

A pupil of sensei Hiroshi Tada, Mr. Masatomi Ikeda was the technical director at Mumonkan Aikido Club foundation in 1997.

Ikeda Masatomi

7 Dan Aikido Aikikai.
6 Dan Karate.
4 Dan Judo.
Instructor of the World Centre of Aikido Aikikai Hombu Dojo (Tokyo).

Technical director of the Mumonkan club from 2000 to 2010.

Yamada Hironobu

7 Dan Aikido Aikikai.
Instructor of the World Centre of Aikido Aikikai Hombu Dojo (Tokyo).
Kyoshi Menkyo Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu.

Technical director of the Mumonkan club since 2010.

Ito Makoto

6 Dan Aikido Aikikai.
Instructor of the World Centre of Aikido Aikikai Hombu Dojo (Tokyo).

Mr. Sergei Rychkov was the curator of the Mumonkan club from 1997 to 2009.

Sergei Rychkov

5 Dan Aikido Aikikai.
Black belt of Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu.
Head of the Budo Kai Martial Arts School (Moscow).

Mumonkan club is a part of the Belarusian Aikido Federation (BAF) under the guidance of Mr. Andrei Mostovnikov.

Andrei Mostovnikov

5 Dan Aikido Aikikai.
Chairman of the Belarusian Aikido Federation (Minsk).

See also

• News of the Mumonkan Aikido Club.
• Our vision of Aikido and unexpected attack.