THE FATHER OF PHILIPPINE AIKIDO

I met the "FATHER OF PHILIPPINE AIKIDO' Benjamin Galarpe in Manila some years ago and visited his club on the corner of RIZAL AVENUE. The late Antonio V. Mendoza and also Grandmaster Amante P. Marinas,Sr. studied aikido there as did many others too numerous to mention. Some persons,those I met at FEU claimed that there were other practitioners and pioneers of aikido before Benjamin Galarpe but they could not give me any specific names at the time.