AIKIDO Kuwait dojo owes its existence to the great help and assistance of Sugumar John Ratnam Sensei “AIKIDO Club Dubai”.  He spared no effort in guiding our dojo cho namely Mohammad Alhamar Sensei. On May the first AIKIDO Kuwait dojo started practising AIKIDO in Kazma Club.

Alhamar sensei started fencing 1984 for 21 years learning and teaching the art of fencing. He then started practising  AIKIDO in 2004 to date. A dedicated AIKIDOKA he then met with Sugumar John Ratnam Sensei in Dubai 2008. After intensive training and practising the art of peace in Dubai, he came back to Kuwait to establish AIKIDO Kuwait dojo as a dojo cho.     

AIKIDO Kuwait dojo is affiliated with AAI which in turn is integral part of AAA founded by Fumio Toyoda Shihan; Who is a student of Tohei Sensei and at the age of 17 was awarded his shodan rank. Tohei Sensei was in Hawaii at the time instructing, so the examination was given by the famous Morihiro Saito Sensei. At the age of  22, he was ranked sandan and was assisting with instruction at several locations. At this time, the current Doshu, Moriteru Ueshiba, as well as Hayato Osawa, the son of the late Kisaburo Osawa, were beginning their training. He enrolled as uchideshi (live-in disciple) at the Aikikai Hombu Dojo. By this time O-Sensei had died. Toyoda Shihan therefore became the first uchideshi directly under the new Doshu, Kisshomaru Ueshiba.

At age 24, Toyoda Shihan was awarded the rank of yondan. His teaching activities in Japan would eventually include classes at 11 dojo, including Daio Bunka University, Seikei University, and International Christian University. He also travelled to South Korea, where his instruction included classes for hapkido groups and the Korean CIA. He travelled often as otomo (attendant and demonstration assistant) for Kisshomaru Ueshiba, and had contact with many other prominent teachers such as Saito Sensei and Yasuo Kobayashi Sensei.

The dramatic split which shook the Aikido world occurred at this time, when Koichi Tohei, then the Chief Instructor at Aikikai Hombu Dojo, left the Aikikai to develop his own Ki no Kenkyukai (Ki Society) organization. Toyoda Shihan followed his obligation to his original teacher, and sided with Tohei Sensei. Eventually, he was given the position of Chief Instructor of Aikido technique for the Ki Society. He also was the author of the by-laws for that organization. In 1974, at Tohei Sensei's direction, he settled in Chicago to begin spreading Aikido in the United States. He was 27 years old, and now held the rank of godan.

Toyoda Shihan worked to develop AAA's headquarters in Chicago. It was there that the first of the National Instructor's Seminars was held; AAA was the first organization to offer such a training, teaching how to teach, rather than simply practising. It is this recognition  that teaching requires a unique and advanced set of skills not necessarily imparted through general practice alone  that has been at the core of Toyoda Shihan's work. Today, all of his instructors are required to be re-certified through attendance at such a seminar at least once every two years.

The result of all of this is that today the Aikido Association of America is the largest organization under a single Shihan-level instructor in the United States. With growth continuing at its present pace, AAA will soon be to be the largest of any Aikido organization in America. And, more importantly, Aikido can now be found in almost every major city in America. While it is easy to talk about this growth as a natural process, it is truly only through the physical work of Toyoda Shihan, travelling and sacrificing on a daily basis with the same intensity and energy he learned as a young trainee at Ichikukai Dojo, that this has occurred.

Growth has occurred internationally as well. Responding to the request for quality Aikido instruction from many other nations, Toyoda Shihan founded a sister organization of AAA, Aikido Association International (AAI). AAI currently oversees instructional programs in 12 other nations including new branches in Japan itself. A third organization, Aikido International Foundation (AIF), was founded as well. A federally tax-exempt, not-for-profit educational and charitable organization, AIF provides economic and other assistance to Aikido practitioners in many nations.