Another path, Aïkido

Eléonore Lemaire started aïkido at 6 years old, and is teaching in the  Kodokan Paris XV since 2008. She is 5th dan, CQP MAM (professional martial art teacher) and a member of the regional technical crew of Île-de-France.

She has been following the teaching of Michel Lapierre (6th dan)  since all these years, as well as other sensei like Arnaud Waltz, Christian Tissier, Bernard Palmier, Pascal Norbelly, Claudie Bellus, Josette Nickels and the other French, Japanese, or international shihan on different seminars.

With Michel Lapierre, she has a wild thinking about transmission, especially towards Youth. She regularly holds technical seminars alone or with other senseis, for adults and youth, to share her style and exchange with other senseis.  

Between 2020 and 2022, she was the French ambassador for the International Aikido Federation, in the Youth Working group. This reinforced a strong feeling she had as a lyrical singe, about the power and beauty raised by the exchanges with other European countries, and keeps precious bonds with the other IAF members.