Re: Do You Go To Seminars Outside Your Style?
It sounds like Peter went to one of Howard Popkin & Joe Brogna's daito-ryu seminars, as that was precisely my experience with Howard/Joe.
I "try" to get up to Nick Lowry's Windsong Dojo in OKC at least once a year for one of his multi-day things. Sometimes I can make it twice a year, some years not at all because of real world concerns.
Those multi-day things are a lot of fun, and often there are things to be learned right in one's own art that you'd not considered before, or in a closely-related art that supplement and enhance, or in something completely different.
What I find when I go do something unrelated to aikido, like systema for example, is how closely they actually are in their working. Having practiced for literally decades in punch-kick, I can tell you that the systems are different in their emphasis, not terribly much in their techniques (e.g. Shotokan karate vs. hapkido is a good example of that dichotomy).
I'm straying. Yes, I have done the outside style seminar thing and came away better for so doing.
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