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Juan Carlos Santurde San José (Santander, 11 June 1971) is a aikido master and self-defense instructor. Cofounder and president of Asociación Takemusu de Aikido Tradicional in Spain, wich preserves Iwama Ryu style of aikido at a national level. He is currently the technical director of the Aikido Cantabria school. In 2018 he became the youngest person in Spain to get 6th Dan.

Biography
He is graduated in Geography and History for University of Cantabria. He currently works as a forest agent for the Government of Cantabria and is the technical director of the Aikido Cantabria association.

He started practicing aikido at 12 years old, studying with different senseis being the most important: Ethan Weisgard, Daniel Toutain and Paolo Corallini, all of them masters of traditional aikido, or Iwama style, an aikido style teached by Morihiro Saitō in his dojo in Iwama, who was a direct disciple of Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of aikido.

Career
In 2000 he created Aikido Cantabria, a school in traditional aikido and self-defense, to spread the teaching of aikido, its philosofy and values. He is currently its technical director.

In 2008 he created the Children's Aikido Association in Cantabria to introduce aikido in schools as an extra curricular activity. That year he began collaborating with the Government of Cantabria by teaching courses in verbal conflict resolution, aikido and self-defense to the employees of the different sections of the public administration, to avoid conflicts while attending the matters of the citizens.

In 2015 the founded Asociación Takemusu de Aikido Tradicional in Spain. In 2018 he got his 6th dan, becoming the youngest spaniard to get it. He currently combines his profession as a forest agent for the Government of Cantabria with his activity in promoting and teaching aikido and self-defense at a national scope.