“Though I have visited many dojos around the world, there is no place where the youth really love aikido like this”, a Japanese friend of mine once told me after having praticed at Shūdōkan for the first time. Energy of the youth and passion has formed today Shūdōkan.

May 2002 is a memorable mark in my life to be the moment I officially started playing a sport for the first time. The site I chose was Aikido VJCC Shūdōkan at Hanoi Youth University which was moved to Foreign Trade University afterward and becomes the Aikido Yuuki Shūdōkan in Hanoi nowadays.

Everyone has a reason and a different path to practise Aikido, and then everyone has very different thinking, feeling with this martial art. I do, too. Now, I think I am really lucky because I am a member of Aikido Yuuki Shūdōkan. 

When I was a child, I often be bullied by older children, this because I was a small and low weighting boy. I therefore love martial arts. Whenever I heard about a good teacher, I did all to find him and tried to learn. However very ungainly, after a few sessions it started to be boring and I could not stay longer (now I know why: because it required to much energy). I thought that my idea about...

In October 2000, the first Aikido club in Hanoi was established at No. 20 in Yet Kieu Street. Thanks to a friend’s recommendation, I got my fate attached to Aikido in the end of the year 2000 when this Japanese martial art and Shūdōkan Club were brand new in the Capital of Vietnam.