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Place of Birth: Réunion, France
About Jacques Payet
- Jacques Payet (????·???, born August 24, 1957) is a practitioner of Yoshinkan-style aikido.
- He was the longest-serving non-Japanese uchi-deshi of Yoshinkan founder Gozo Shioda and is ranked Hachidan (??, "8th degree") in the Yoshinkan organization, with the honorific Shihan (??, "mentor and model").
- He is the founder and head instructor of Mugenjuku dojo and the Mugenjuku Kenshusei program in Kyoto, Japan.
- He is also the originator of the well-known Senshusei Course, a translator of several important works in aikido, and a guest instructor in demand around the world.
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