Vu X. Ha, Rokudan (6th degree) has been a practitioner of aikido since 1989 and was a close and direct student both of the late Akira Tohei Shihan in Chicago, IL, and Mitsunari Kanai Shihan in Cambridge, MA. Throughout the year, he continues training with master instructors (Shihan) from the U.S. Aikido Federation Technical Committee and Aikido World Headquarters (Hombu), nationally and internationally. He is also practitioner of Iaido, (Godan; 5th degree) the Japanese martial art drawing and cutting with the sword.