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Old 06-27-2012, 08:24 PM   #21
Basia Halliop
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Styles of Aikido - which is right for me?

"You realize that the Senshushei program is, literally, making people from scratch to Shodan in 11 months, right? I believe it's 3 hours a day, 5 days a week."

3 hours a day, 5 days a week isn't that much -- you can train that much in a number of dojos in North America, and they wouldn't call you a shodan after a year, it would still take several years.

Which just goes to show that rank is arbitrary and unstandardized anyway. Don't worry about what rank you will be labelled as in a given amount of time, it doesn't mean you're better or worse, it means that's what that particular organization has chosen to label as a certain rank.