Everything I know and everything I’ve managed to become through decades of dedicated work, I owe to my teacher, Dejan Stamenkovic 5. Dan Aikikai. Dejan was my only teacher since 1998, and I started as one of his first students, in his newly opened dojo, Aikido Club Karadjordje, which he opened in Belgrade after years spent in Italy, as one of the late Fujimoto Sensei best students. Dejan succeeded in one simple mission, to keep the flame of late Fujimoto Sensei aikido in our country. Fujimoto Se