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Being Christian Tissiers kohai, did you get to practice Kashima Shin Ryu kenjutsu in Japan?

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Being Christian Tissiers kohai, did you get to practice Kashima Shin Ryu kenjutsu in Japan?

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Micheline Tissier: No, I had never practiced weapons in Japan; I started in France with Christian. Guillaume Erard: When you returned to France, you got married to Christian and you stayed together for 22 years. As an Aikido instructor, did you feel that you had to stay in the shadow of your husband? Micheline Tissier: I started teaching Aikido 11 years after our return from Japan. It was in Vincennes in 1989, we had two classes running simultaneously (I think it is still the case), one for mixed levels and one for the beginners where they had to stay for about 3 months like in Japan. Christian gave me the beginner’s classes but I only earned his trust when the beginners, after three months with me refused to go to his class (laughs)! The following year, we moved to the South of France because our son had serious asthma problems in Paris. I resumed teaching only in 1997 after we separated in the dojo we had opened on the port of Nice. To answer the question, given the situation, stayin

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