Instructors

Matt Fluty Sensei began Aikido training in 1990 in Stockton, CA under the instruction of John Smartt Sensei, Founder of New School Aikido. From 1991 to 1995 Matt  engaged in a rigorous teacher apprentice program offered to students who endeavored to share their passion and understanding of Aikido through teaching. Throughout his apprenticeship, Matt engaged daily in Aikido and Aikido-related studies including Aikido training, Aikido history, philosophy and cosmology, as well as meditation and healing arts. After a period of four years of deep immersion that culminated in the completion of his teacher apprenticeship, Matt was awarded a teaching certification from Smartt Sensei. In 1995, Matt relocated to Sacramento, California and founded a dojo that is today Aikido Center Sacramento. Matt Sensei continues to practice Aikido both home and abroad, and is a member of Kumano Juku Dojo in Shingu, Japan, the dojo of the late Hikitsuchi Michio Sensei 10th Dan.  He is a direct student of Peter Shapiro Sensei of Bern, Switzerland, and Tasaka Mitsuo Shihan of Kumano Juku Dojo in Shingu, Japan. Matt Fluty is the dojo-cho and Chief Instructor at Aikido Center Sacramento and Tahoe Mountain Aikido. He has practiced and taught Aikido for over 30 years, and currently holds the Aikido rank of Yondan.