Jacques Payet
- January 4, 2024
- Aikidoka
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Jacques Payet Biography
| Name | Jacques Payet |
| Birthday | Aug 24 |
| Birth Year | 1957 |
| Place Of Birth | Réunion |
| Home Town | Réunion |
| Birth Country | France |
| Birth Sign | Capricorn |
Jacques Payet is one of the most popular and richest Aikidoka who was born on August 24, 1957 in Réunion, Réunion, France. Jacques Payet (ジャック・パイエ, born August 24, 1957) is a practitioner of Yoshinkan-style aikido. He was the longest-serving non-Japanese uchi-deshi of Yoshinkan founder Gozo Shioda and is ranked Hachidan (八段 , “8th degree”) in the Yoshinkan organization, with the honorific Shihan (師範 , “mentor and model”) . He is the founder and head instructor of Mugenjuku dojo and the Mugenjuku Kenshusei program in Kyoto, Japan. He is also the originator of the well-known Senshusei Course, a translator of several important works in aikido, and a guest instructor in demand around the world.
When Payet arrived at the Yoshinkan in 1980, most classes were taught by Takafumi Takeno. Although regular students at the Yoshinkan did not have an opportunity to train with him, Payet was introduced to Gozo Shioda by his son, Yasuhisa Shioda. Following the introduction, Payet was offered the opportunity to live and train in the dojo full-time for a few months. His stay was extended several times until the beginning of the dojo’s next special police training course in April 1981, at which time Payet officially became an uchi- deshi in the Yoshinkan dojo. Payet was Shioda’s deshi from that time until Shioda’s death in 1994. He lived in Japan as a direct disciple of Shioda for two periods, 1980 – 1985 and 1989 – 1993.
After living as uchi-deshi to Gozo Shioda for 5 years, Payet returned to France in 1986 with the intention of teaching aikido. However, the legal and political situation in France at the time made it prohibitively difficult to teach aikido. As a result, when he had the opportunity in 1987, he moved to England, where he had been teaching for two years already. He lived in London from 1987-1988 and was appointed technical director of the English Aikido Yoshinkan Federation. However, in 1988, Payet decided he was unsatisfied with his own practice of aikido and requested that he be allowed to return to Japan to continue studying at the Yoshinkan dojo.
Payet is a popular seminar instructor and makes trips to dojos in the United States, England and Russia annually in addition to giving seminars at corporations and universities in Japan. He was present at Gozo Shioda’s last overseas demonstration in Germany in 1988. He travels once every two months for about 1–2 weeks, and, in addition to the US, Europe and Russia, he has given seminars in Israel, Qatar, Canada, Poland, Germany, Italy, and the Ukraine.
After moving to Europe in the 1980s, Payet represented several Japanese companies in France and England. In the 1990s, he worked in a government tourism office and opened his own company.
Jacques Payet Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Aikidoka |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jacques Payet is one of the richest Aikidoka from France. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jacques Payet 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
In 1976 he was a teacher in the Saint-Leu neighborhood of Le Plate but decided to pursue his education further by attending the Université de Lyon, where he did an IUT, which he followed by conscription service in the French army in 1979–1980.
While finishing academic studies in France, Payet was practicing jujutsu and attended a seminar in 1978 at which he saw a film of Yoshinkan founder Gozo Shioda, whom he believed to be a jujutsu practitioner due to a language barrier. Determined to meet Shioda, Payet traveled to Japan in September 1980. He arrived without any information about Shioda’s location but was able to find the Yoshinkan dojo with the assistance of a French speaking Japanese student at Tokyo University.
Gozo Shioda’s autobiography was originally published in Japanese in 1985. Following the success of their translation of Aikido Shugyo, Payet again worked with Christopher Johnston and the Yoshinkan hombu to produce an English translation of the autobiography under the title Aikido Jinsei: My Life in Aikido, also published by Shindokan Books.
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Payet’s Studio City dojo on Ventura Boulevard near Hollywood opened in 2001 and was named Mugenjuku (無限塾 , mugen-juku, lit. “no-limits-coaching-school”) . The Japanese word juku (塾 ) has the connotation of a small, intimate school with a limited number of students and close contact with the teacher (as contrasted with, for example, a university lecture); it is typically used in Japan to describe specialized preparatory schools and is often translated into English as “cram school”. Mugen (無限 ) means “infinite”. The name can interpreted as à double entente, meaning either “the school of endless training” or “the school for learning how to go beyond limitations”. When Payet moved to Kyoto in 2005, leadership of that school passed to David Fryberger, Yoshinkan 5th-dan, and the school’s name is now “Aikido on Ventura”.
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Jacques Ranked on the list of most popular Aikidoka. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in France. Jacques Payet celebrates birthday on August 24 of every year.
In 2008, Payet opened a formal dojo in Kyoto with the assistance of shidoin (指導員 , shidōin, “instructors”) Yutaka Kikuchi and Masahiro Nakatsuka. The name of the dojo was originally “Mugenjuku-Kyoto” (京都 合気道無限塾 , Kyōto aikidō- mugenjuku) to distinguish it from the Los Angeles branch. Payet wanted a traditional facility rather than a gymnasium for training and found Shiramine Shrine, which has a dojo on its grounds. Payet performs an embu (演武 , enbu, “budo demonstration”) there every year at the shrine’s Budo Festival (武道奨励繁栄祭 , Budō shōrei han’ei-sai, lit. “martial arts encourage prosperity festival”) .