“Aricel” group at the November 2014 competition

Gabriele Marcoianu

Born in an era when martial arts were completely prohibited, he practiced judo between 1980 and 1983 with sensei Marinescu, Abalaru, sensei Petre Motiu in the junior competitive group, came to this art thanks to a black belt in judo – Viorel Rauta, a neighbor in the neighborhood. He continued the practice until 1990, with interruptions of the shotokan karate discipline with another master Marinescu who eventually left for America, he remained in practice with the existing black belts, friends from the neighborhood who had an organized form in the basement of the block (Dan Petrescu, etc.). After 1990 he moved on to wushu, Wing-Tsung style, among the first style instructors in Romania, he taught children in the school near the current Museum of the Romanian Peasant, after a long period and a professional break, he approached Aikido, within the Romanian Federation of Modern Aikido, he founded the ACS Innovative Aiki-Concept club, he holds 4 Dan of aikido, 3 Dan of Wing-Tsun Kung Fu.