McGouirk Sensei 6th Dan
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| Frank Mc Gouirk Sensei was promoted to first Dan in 1965 by Koichi Tohei Sensei, then Chief Instructor of Hombu Dojo, at Aikido of South San Francisco. Notable fellow classmates included Senseis Bob Nadeau, Ed Baker and Frank Doran. Mc Gouirk founded Aikido-Ai of Southern California in 1981. He received Tai Chi certification from Grand Master Sifu Y.M. Cheng in 1981. He co-founded the Whittier Dharma Kai Zen Center with Zen Master Ji Bong in 1983 and currently is the center's Abbot and Dharma teacher. Mc Gouirk studied Qigong at Huaxia Zhineng Hospital in the City of Fengrun south of Beijing. He received Qigong certification in 1998 from Qigong Master Luke Chan. Mc Gouirk has hosted the Mt. Baldy Zen Center Aikido-Ai Memorial weekend retreat for the past 20 years. In addition to teaching full-time at the Aikido-Ai Dojo in Whittier, California, Mc Gouirk also teaches Tai Chi and Qigong at Kaiser Hospital in Baldwin Park, California. Mc Gouirk is pleased to be associated with his teacher Frank Doran, and proud of his son, Bill Mc Gouirk, 4th Dan, who is also Doran's student.
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The California Aikido Association is an organization officially recognized by the Aikikai.
The CAA is a worldwide organization and is fortunate to have within its membership many teachers with varied backgrounds and complementary skills. Thus the CAA embraces many stylistic and technical traditions but is guided by the physical and philosophical ideals established by the founder, Morihei Ueshiba. It is this very open-ness and diversity that uniquely defines the CAA, not so much as an organization but as an 'Association' of teachers, dojos, and aikidoka whose primary common bond is the art we practice. This loose association also means that the CAA does not mandate, enforce, govern, oversee, direct, sanction, or otherwise control the specific operations and events within its member dojos. Each dojo and each member is solely responsible for their own actions.
The CAA is organized into three Divisions headed by Senseis Frank Doran, 7th Dan, Robert Nadeau, 7th Dan, and Pat Hendricks, 6th Dan.
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 The Aikikai Foundation (Aikido World Headquarters) is the parent organization for the development and popularization of Aikido throughout the world. To correctly transmit Aikido according to the ideals of the founder,O-sensei Morihei Ueshiba, thousands of instructors under the leadership of Doshu Moriteru Ueshiba are doing their utmost to teach Aikido to students in Japan and around the world.
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