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    HOW IT ALL BEGAN

    The club was founded in 1985, in Belgrade. It carried the name AIKIDO CLUB "MAJ" and it was situated at the facilities of "25. maj" Sport Center, in Dorćol.
    At the Constituent Assembly, the following persons were signed as founders of the club: Mladen Teovanović, Branislav Novko, Branko Blažičević, Goran Kurnik, Zoran Marković, Milan Jeremić, Milorad Blažić, Pavle Matejić, Asja Radojlović and Milan Vuković.

    The other members of the Constituent Assembly were: Karmen Kurnik, Srđan Đorđević, Ljubiša Čolić, Dan Popović, Zoran Veličković, Tatjana Dumović, Danica Momčilović, Labib Zatara, Aleksandra Ristić, Ana Glišić, Zlatan Ličina, Katarina Mandić, Ljubica Gajić, Irena Žižović, Dušan Cvetić, Dušica Dopsaj, Božo Šibalić, Snežana Teovanović, Dragan Korać, Saša Tanović, Vojislav Bekovac.

    The founders and the first members practiced intensely at Sport Center Vračar, in the DTV "Partizan" club, which was later renamed to Aikido klub "Prvi Vračar" ("The First Vračar").

    The club used those facilities until April 1990, when it moved to "KOŠUTNJAK" Sport Center. Two years later, the club changed its name to KI AIKIDO CLUB "BEOGRAD". In November 1986, the club was registered in Japan, at KI NO KENKYUKAI organization, whose founder is teacher KOICHI TOHEI. It was the first aikido club from Serbia that was registered at this organization.

    In 2003, the club moved into MZ "Poručnika Spasića i Mašere" building at Julino brdo. In May 2006, it moved into "GARDEN CENTAR" building on Vidikovac, where it was until January 2018. The club is now located at Vatroslava Jagića Street no. 3 on Vračar.

    In Winter 1992, the instructor Milan Jeremić opened Aikido school in Pančevo. Mladen Popović and Milinko Jelovac founded Ki aikido club Dinamo Pančevo some time after that. And in 1994, both groups merged to Ki aikido club Dinamo Pančevo.

    Since 2002, the club in Pančevo is working by the name of Sekcija "DINAMO - PANČEVO", as a part of KI AIKIDO CLUB "BEOGRAD". Sekcija "DINAMO - PANČEVO" represents a continuity in work of members of the former KI AIKIDO CLUB "DINAMO", which ceased its operation in the same year.