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Michael McCavish (March 10, 1961) is an aikido instructor at Shodokan Aikido Hombu Osaka. Having trained since the early 1970's in taekwondo achieving the grade of 3rd Dan under the World Taekwondo Federation in Seoul, Korea he encountered aikido in 1988 in Osaka. He has lived and worked in Japan for close to 30 years, training under Tetsuro Nariyama Shihan 9th Dan, earning his 6th Dan in Shodokan Aikido in 2014. Acknowledged as contributing to the ongoing global promotion of Shodokan Aikido McCavish was accredited as a contributor to the translation of the core Shodokan Japanese text Aikido Kyogi by Fumiaki Shishida and Tetsuro Nariyama into the English Aikido, Tradition and the Competitive Edge. McCavish has mentored students internationally and currently oversees the ongoing aikido careers of instructors in Switzerland, the Philippines, Australia, the United Kingdom USA, and Japan. He is known for strongly advocating students to take their Dan Gradings at Shodokan Hombu in Osaka.

McCavish founded the Japanese based Madagascan Ark Organization in 2010 which supports conservation projects and breeding programs for the unique, endangered fauna of Madagascar.