Andrzej Siwkiewicz
Sandan- 3rd Degree Black Belt
Instructor
Cleveland Aikikai
Oberlin Aikido Club
Andrzej Siwkiewicz Sensei began his martial arts training in 1982 in Warsaw, Poland studying Kung Fu Hung Gar style and Tai Chi Chuan. He joined Warsaw University Aikido Club in 1983, which became Roman Hoffman Sensei's Warsaw Aikido Center. In 1989 Siwkiewicz Sensei joined Aikido-Zen Institute of Gerhard Walter Shihan in West Berlin. Among his fellow students were future instructors of many dojos in Germany such as Ulrike Serak and Frank Ostoff.
After arriving in US, Siwkiewicz Sensei continued his aikido practice, while attending a graduate art school in Rochester, NY. In 1997 he joined Aikido Schools of Ueshiba and Cleveland Aikikai. He received his shodan in 2002 from Hiroshi Ikeda Shihan, nidan in 2006 from Mitsugi Saotome Shihan, and sandan from Hiroshi Ikeda Shihan in 2010. Siwkiewicz Sensei has been teaching in Cleveland Aikikai and Oberlin Aikido Club since 2003. In 2006 he was appointed head instructor of Oberlin College Aikido Club.
During his frequent travels abroad and in the US he takes every opportunity to practice visiting local dojos and attending seminars, learning from instructors and aikidokas around the world, to later share that experience with his students in Oberlin and Cleveland Aikikai.