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04-13-2003, 12:01 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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AikiWeb Poll for the week of April 13, 2003:
If you had to move tomorrow to some place without any aikido dojo, would you open up a dojo there? - I don't do aikido
- Yes
- No, although I'd feel qualified
- No, and I wouldn't feel qualified
Here are the current results.
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04-13-2003, 03:44 AM
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Dojo: Great Wave Aikido
Location: Alberta, Canada
Join Date: Jun 2002
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I certainly would; I'm not qualified to do so yet, but knowing me; that wouldn't stop me from at least asking permission....
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Answers are only easy when they're incomplete.
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04-13-2003, 03:53 AM
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Dojo: Shodokan Honbu (Osaka)
Location: Himeji, Japan
Join Date: Mar 2001
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I certainly did - worse yet it was in a place with plenty of Aikido. Just not the Aikido I was interested in. And even worse - I've never felt qualified.
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04-13-2003, 11:06 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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I did just that when I moved to Cheyenne, WY nearly three years ago.
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LOUIS A. SHARPE, JR.
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04-13-2003, 11:25 AM
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Dojo: Phoenix Coventry
Location: Coventry, England
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Yep, sure would. However,I would only do it with the express support of my Sensei, Tom Moss (6th Dan). Not that I think he would try to stop me, it's just that I would feel better with his support.
Have fun.
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Vir Obesus Stola Saeptus
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04-13-2003, 08:46 PM
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Dojo: Great Wave Aikido
Location: Alberta, Canada
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I have in the past heard of 3rd. kyu's starting dojo's; MY question would be: At what point does a person draw the line? IOW; where in a person's development?
For myself; I have the odd combination of being a newcomer to Aikido but a highly experienced teacher. What I know; I can teach effectively; but as yet I don't know enough to effectively teach.
Honestly; I'm far too inexperienced in Aikido to even consider teaching it; however (and this is the reason for my answer) given the choice between starting my own dojo at a low level of ability and no Aikido at all; I'd choose the former; so long as it was allowed.
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Answers are only easy when they're incomplete.
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04-14-2003, 12:19 PM
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Dojo: North Winnipeg Aikikai
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Hey, what's the deal? This is the second poll where I have tried to vote only to be informed that I have already voted. I know that I haven't, so what's going on? Is this a glitch or is someone speaking for me?
Kinda' irritating, y'know?
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"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend."
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04-14-2003, 02:54 PM
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Dojo: Kamai
Location: Freiburg
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Quote:
Peter Rehse (PeterR) wrote:
I certainly did - worse yet it was in a place with plenty of Aikido. Just not the Aikido I was interested in. And even worse - I've never felt qualified.
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Ha-ha,
just the words I thought about to reply to this thread....before I scrolled down.
..in fact: excactly what I had to say.
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04-14-2003, 04:04 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2001
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My "Six month Blackbelt Guarantee" program will stomp the competition into the ground.
Last edited by shihonage : 04-14-2003 at 04:10 PM.
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04-14-2003, 05:59 PM
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Location: All over CA
Join Date: Feb 2003
Posts: 137
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What about...?
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"To educate a man in mind, and not in morals, is to educate a menace to society." ~Theodore Roosevelt
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04-14-2003, 06:28 PM
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Dojo: New School Aikido, Stockton, CA
Location: Casper, WY
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Quote:
Louis A. Sharpe, Jr. (lt-rentaroo) wrote:
I did just that when I moved to Cheyenne, WY nearly three years ago.
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My wife is from Wyoming, and I promised her that when I got my Sandan that we would move away from California, and open up a dojo somewhere in the midwest.
... crosses out Chyenne from the list...
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04-20-2003, 05:19 PM
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Join Date: Dec 2001
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Maybe. Maybe not, if there was another interesting art around. Never even tried that Phillipino stuff...
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04-20-2003, 08:41 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2000
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Tadhg Bird -
You're more than welcome to open up a dojo in Cheyenne!! The USAF (that's United States Air Force, not United States Aikido Federation) is relocating me to California this summer, and so I must bid my students (most are in the Air Force also) a fond farewell.
It would be wonderful if Cheyenne had a full time/permanent dojo. So leave California behind, Wyoming is where you ought to be
Take Care!
Last edited by lt-rentaroo : 04-20-2003 at 08:45 PM.
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LOUIS A. SHARPE, JR.
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04-20-2003, 09:13 PM
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Dojo: Kingston Aikido
Location: New York
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 322
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I'm with Jane Tao on this one. I'm in no way, shape, or form qualified to open a dojo. But man, if I had to live somewhere without Aikido, I'd do my damnedest to get Aikido!
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Karen
"Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try." - Master Yoda
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