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Old 07-16-2009, 09:50 AM   #19
fisher6000
Dojo: NY Aikikai
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Re: "New York Aikikai Etiquette"

I know Tonya and am a relative beginner who is training at NY Aikikai. The overparsing of Tonya's post here is creating some nonsense. I get treated very well as a beginner at NY Aikikai, and of course there are a couple of people who are a little too intense, or who have a hard time working with beginners.

That's life!

Deshi choose to have a very narrow frame of reference for a period of time, and that intense focus is an interesting and valid thing to write about. It's easy if you have a much broader perspective and no real information about the dojo to read a lot into the post. But I think it's wiser to understand the source and the point of the post. The post did not come from NY Aikikai's website. It came from a blog called "Diary of an Uchi Deshi." It's obviously unofficial, obviously biographical.
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