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Iranian martial artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soleiman Mehdizadeh (Japanese: ソレイマン・メヒディザデ, Persian: سلیمان مهدیزاده; born 1955) is an Iranian master of Budō.[1]
He traveled to Japan in 1977, to Tokyo, and started practicing Kendo. After a while, he returned to Iran; but, again, in 1978, he went to Japan and in Nishiyama's Dojo practiced Kendo. He also learned Iaido from Totsuka and Goju-ryu Karate under Yamamoto.[citation needed]
Soleiman Mehdizadeh founded the teaching of the traditional martial art of Kendo-Iaido in Iran. In 1980, the International Martial Arts Federation started supervising Kendo & Iaido (Samurai). The formal training, which was under the control of Mehdizadeh, was in the Fencing Hall (Martial Arts Hall at the time). In the same year, the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) prepared a film about the first samurai martial arts training class in Iran and then broadcast it on Jan. 6th, 1983. Simultaneously Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) filmed a documentary showing martial arts exercises demonstrated by Mehdizadeh. Since Mehdizadeh had to stay in Japan for several months each year for follow-up technical and specialty exercises, his masters advised him to reside in Japan to pass higher-level exams in Kendo-Iaido. Returning to Iran in 1994, Mehdizadeh recommenced training of students under the supervision of the Karate Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran.[citation needed]
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