Olivier DELLE CASTELLE 3DAN

Olivier Delle Castelle started Judo in 1981 at the age of 4 in the Boulogne club where his father practiced Aikido with André Nocquet and Hervé Dizien.

In 1995 at the age of 17, he started Aikido at the Atheon club with Hervé Dizien.

1^st DAN in 2001 and federal patent in hand, he created the Aikido section within his engineering school (ESTP) which would subsequently become the ENS Cachan club.

For several years he assisted Claude Franck in supervising the beginner course at the Atheon club.

He gradually becomes principal Uke of Hervé Dizien whom he follows in all his training courses and demonstrations. It also regularly serves as Uke to Claude Cébille and Jean Pierre Datigny during training courses and demonstrations.

At the same time, in 2002 he began practicing Shiatsu with Michel Bretheau, founding member of the French Federation of Traditional Shiatsu, and invested himself in the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine.

In 2008 he obtained his 2^nd DAN and became a Shiatsu Practitioner after presenting his dissertation on the links between the practice of Shiatsu and Aikido.

He attempted the 3rd Dan in 2012 but was forced to stop his exam due to injury.

After this event, he decided to redirect his research towards the personal deepening of his practice of Aikido, went to Japan three times, and took over his teacher's Shiatsu school and deepened his research on the internal Chinese arts and their resonance with Aikido.

Very close friend of Benoit Crozier – student, assistant then successor of Christian MOUZA (DTR Corse FFAAA) at the Fontenay aux Roses club – they regularly mirror their practices in order to cross-reference the differences in approach of their respective federations.

He participates in numerous expert courses offering different perspectives, notably those of Guillaume Erard (6th Dan Aikido from the Hombu Dojo of the Tokyo Aikikai / 5th Dan Kyoshi (teacher) of Daïto-ryu Aiki-jujutsu from the Shikoku Hombu Dojo.) on each of his visits to France.

In 2023, at the request of Hervé Dizien, he returned to the exercise of grades and obtained his 3^nd Dan unanimously.

That same year, Hervé asked him to fully take over teaching at his dojo under his direction.

Olivier DELLE CASTELLE is keen to transmit the fluid practice based on sensations, as taught by Hervé DIZIEN, in the path of curiosity and humanism as traced by André Nocquet.