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05-29-2015, 05:40 AM
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Location: Adelaide
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Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
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05-29-2015, 07:34 AM
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Dojo: Torrey Pines Aiki Kai
Location: San Diego
Join Date: Mar 2011
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
I have seen McDojos in other martial arts. I have never seen an Aikido dojo do such a thing. Anyone else?
Edit: not to be confused with bad Aikido, plenty of that going around.
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05-29-2015, 08:12 AM
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Dojo: Suenaka-Ha Aikido of Bloomington
Location: Bloomington, Indiana
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 170
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
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Ben White wrote:
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To be fair, no one fails gradings, but that's because you only get put up to test if you've already passed. And what on *earth* is wrong with a camouflage hakama, I ask you!??!?
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05-29-2015, 01:27 PM
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Dojo: Boulder Aikikai
Location: Denver, Colorado
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
You only have his word that he's wearing a hakama at all.
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05-29-2015, 08:34 PM
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Location: Left Coast
Join Date: May 2002
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
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Ashley Hemsath wrote:
To be fair, no one fails gradings, but that's because you only get put up to test if you've already passed. And what on *earth* is wrong with a camouflage hakama, I ask you!??!?
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There are plenty of dojo where people fail gradings. In some dojo, testing is considered a demo of what you can do, and yeah, it is expected you have already passed. But that is not universal.
Me, I'd love a pink camo hak.
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Janet Rosen
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"peace will enter when hate is gone"--percy mayfield
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05-30-2015, 06:54 AM
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Dojo: Allegheny Aikido
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 170
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
I keep threatening an American flag hakama.
Don't forget the places that advertise teaching twenty different martial arts!
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05-31-2015, 07:02 AM
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Location: Adelaide
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
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06-02-2015, 08:24 AM
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Dojo: Greensboro Kodokan
Location: Greensboro
Join Date: Mar 2004
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
Oh Janet, I can so see you in a pink camo hak.
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06-02-2015, 08:29 AM
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Location: Massachusetts
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
A McDojo, by its definition, is a franchise serving inferior fare. I haven't seen that (yet) in aikido.
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06-02-2015, 11:52 AM
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Dojo: Boulder Aikikai
Location: Denver, Colorado
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 372
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Re: Is your Aikido Dojo a McDojo?
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McWords:
A McWord is a word containing the prefix Mc-, derived from the first syllable of the name of the McDonald's restaurant chain. Words of this nature are either official marketing terms of the chain (such as McNugget), or are neologisms designed to evoke pejorative associations with the restaurant chain or fast food in general, often for qualities of cheapness, inauthenticity, or the rapidity and ease of manufacture. They are also used in non-consumerism contexts as a pejorative for heavily commercialized or globalized things and concepts.
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