Despite being the most senior aikido practitioner in the Midwestern United States , his fifty - three year journey has gone relatively unrecorded .
Meanwhile , he was a married father of three and built a successful dental practice from which he retired at the age of eighty .
Despite being the most senior aikido practitioner in the Midwestern United States , father 's fifty - three year journey has gone relatively unrecorded .
Meanwhile , he was a married father of three and built a successful dental practice from which he retired at the age of eighty .