A first generation Taikiken student of Kenichi Sawai and member of the first Meiji jingu group.
Besides a driven Taikiken promoter, is Iwama sensei a first class Karate and kobudo expert, with a lot of practical teaching experience.
Iwama sensei belongs to the first group of Sawai sensei´s students who introduced Taikiken in Europe back in the early nineteen seventies.