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• Archive: Sugano Sensei was known as a gracious, gentle, and greatly revered teacher who dedicated himself to training and inspiring students around the globe.
• He became an uchi deshi (live-in desciple) to Morihei Ueshiba (O-Sensei) after highschool studies in 1959, and so, is one of only a handful of current teachers who is a direct student of O-Sensei.
• In 1965 Hombu Dojo sent him to Australia, where he remained for nearly 15 years.
• In 1979 Sugano Sensei's teaching mission took him to Belgium where he taught until 1989 when he moved to New York Aikikai at the invitation of Yamada Sensei.
• Sugano Sensei's approach to Aikido was strongly influenced by his passion for learning and dedication to personal development, which has included studying Zen mediation and more recently, European fencing.