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Old 06-24-2011, 01:12 PM   #18
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Re: Outranking your Sensei?

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Janet Rosen wrote: View Post
I disagree.
S/he may always have more seniority than me, but to me "sensei" = teacher, a relationship.
Some of us change dojos because of no longer regarding a specific person as "my sensei" which can happen for a wide variety of reasons.
On the other hand...

I had to "change" dojo because move to another country.
But I still feel my "old" sensei as my sensei. And he will always be my sensei, even if he stop practicing for some reason (like an illness, for example). And when I come back to visit, I train and learn with him.
My relationship do not changed because I moved on.

On the new dojo, I adopted the new teacher as a second sensei, besides the fact that he do not like to be called sensei. And look to learn what I can from him, even the focus on the training being different somehow from my first sensei.

Cheers!
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