Mickaël Martin, 6th dan, discovered Aikido in 1989 and became the uchi deshi of Tamura Nobuyoshi Shihan in 2002. After Tamura Sensei's passing in 2010, he began to practice kenjutsu and iaijutsu with Kuroda Tetsuzan Sensei and kobujutsu with Yoshinori Kono Sensei. Each year he travels to Japan to further his martial arts research and organizes trips to enable different practitioners to meet Japanese masters and visit Japan.

He created the international association, Meiwakan Aikido in 2011 to continually preserve and transmit Tamura Sensei's Aikido. He currently teaches at Meiwakan Aikido's home dojo in La Rochelle, France and travels internationally to give seminars throughout the year. 

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, (Rokudan; 6th degree) the Japanese martial art drawing and cutting with the sword. 

He is currently the chief instructor at Boston Aikikai.