The National Aikido Council of Russia[1] was founded in July of 2005 and is consisting of three main organizations having their goal to develop Aikido and propagate it in our country. The NACR was founded by:
The main objectives and purposes of the Council foundation are consolidation of the experience and efforts for popularization of Aikido in Russia, regulation of the process of the Aikido development in Russia, assistance in improvement of the professional qualification of Aikido instructors, intensified activities to ensure the social protection of Aikido practitioners and trainers, as well as propagation of ideas of physical culture, health strengthening, healthy way of life, development of harmonized personality among the wide masses of the population.
President of the National Aikido Council of Russia was elected Sergey Kirienko - Head of the Federal Agency for Nuclear Energy of the Russian Federation, Co-Chairman of the Russian Union of Martial Arts[5] .
Vice-President of the National Aikido Council of Russia was elected Sergey Kiselev - President of the International Euro-Asian Aikido Federation, President of the All-Style Aikido Federation of Russia.
Chairman of the Executive Commitee of the National Aikido Council of Russia was elected Nikolay Egorov - President of the Aikido Federation of Russia.
Provision on the annual prize of the National Aikido Council of Russia "Tornado"
Article 1. Objectives and purposes of the Prize
The Prize of the National Aikido Council of Russia shall be granted to promote efforts bent to the development of Aikido, demonstration of the beauty, harmony and peaceful power of Aikido, its further popularization in Russia, promotion of the mass development of martial arts, propagation of the healthy way of life.
The festival shall be instrumental in achieving goals as follows:
Attraction of young people to Aikido practices
Improvement of the professional skills of Aikido trainers and amateurs
Improvement of methods of Aikido teaching and training
Winning consideration of governmental and public organizations, mass media and business communities for martial arts in general and Aikido, in particular.
Tornado prize winners in 2007:
Nomination
Prize winner
Best children's school
Children's Aikido Aikikai Center of Tatarstan
Instructor of the year
Natalia Rudneva
Progress of the year. Best attestation for kyu
Nadezhda Tyulkova
Progress of the year. Best attestation for dan
Mikhail Mashikhin
Best achievement in Aikido popularization
Aikido Federation of Russia
For support of Aikido development in Russia
Sergey Mamaev
For creation of the Aikido teacher image on TV
Egor Beroev
For contribution to Aikido development in Russia
Hiroshi Ono
Tornado prize winners in 2008:
Nomination
Prize winner
Best children's school
Secondary school "Ordinary miracle", Yoshkar-Oly city
Instructor of the year
Oksana Tatarenko
Progress of the year. Best attestation for kyu
Olga Efimenko
Progress of the year. Best attestation for dan
Vladislav Eroshkin
Best achievement in Aikido popularization
Viktor Sosnovsky
For support of Aikido development in Russia
Boris Nanas
For selfless devotion to Aikido
Yuriy Paradeev
For contribution to Aikido development in Russia
Yoshimitsu Yamada sensei
For services in Aikido development and popularization in Russia
