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06-03-2007, 12:30 AM
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Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
AikiWeb Poll for the week of June 3, 2007:
Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel? Here are the current results.
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06-03-2007, 09:21 AM
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Dojo: Martha's Vineyard Aikido Club
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
Yes! It's a great way to meet people, and keep up a little tiny bit with training. However, sometimes it's hard to make contact with, and find, dojos in unfamiliar places. I mean, most dojos are not in the center of their cities, and can be a bit hard to get to. I've visited dojos in Singapore, Chaing Mai, and Barcelona, so far, plus a few in the US, and somehow just didn't get around to going to the one in Beijing. Next time...
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06-03-2007, 04:33 PM
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Dojo: Joshinkan
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Join Date: Jun 2006
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
Yes!
Whenever I'm visiting North Carolina's beautiful beaches, I make time to visit Kure Beach Aikido . They are welcoming and fun!
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06-03-2007, 06:33 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Eastside
Location: Bellevue, WA
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
Aikido training away from the dojo is my vacation.
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06-03-2007, 07:16 PM
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Dojo: Kingston Aikido
Location: New York
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
Yes! Most of my "vacations" are to seminars and camps. And every summer the kids and I spend a couple-three weeks in Texas with my family...while there, I practice at Aikido of El Paso as often as I can.
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Karen
"Try not. Do...or do not. There is no try." - Master Yoda
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06-03-2007, 07:41 PM
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Dojo: Shodokan Honbu (Osaka)
Location: Himeji, Japan
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
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Amelia Smith wrote:
Yes! It's a great way to meet people, and keep up a little tiny bit with training. However, sometimes it's hard to make contact with, and find, dojos in unfamiliar places. I mean, most dojos are not in the center of their cities, and can be a bit hard to get to. I've visited dojos in Singapore, Chaing Mai, and Barcelona, so far, plus a few in the US, and somehow just didn't get around to going to the one in Beijing. Next time...
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Yes I am having trouble getting in contact with the ones in Shanghai at the moment - far easier to do that in Europe or N. America.
In any case, I alwas get something out of the visits even if its just a little company outside the hotel room. I hve found some real gems in out of the way places.
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06-04-2007, 07:16 AM
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Dojo: Bristol North Aikido Dojo
Location: Bristol
Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
yes - this is the easiest poll to date.
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06-04-2007, 08:19 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
I'm a bit like George on this one. Most of my vacations revolve around aikido seminars/events.
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06-04-2007, 09:09 AM
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Dojo: Aikido of Petaluma, Petaluma,CA
Join Date: Jan 2003
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
What is this word "vacation"?
I get so far as finding out if there is a dojo nearby when I have to travel but so far haven't been able to actually visit them as class/work schedules always seem to conflict.
I bring my gi along regardless.
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06-04-2007, 11:11 AM
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Dojo: New School Aikido
Location: Stockton, CA
Join Date: May 2002
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
Like George Ledyard, I consider training away from my home dojo a vacation. I regularly spend time in either my own dojo in Rio Vista, or my teacher's dojo in Stockton. Both are rewarding, but - let's face it - part of my obligation to my students.
Visiting another dojo is just about training, learning and maybe having some fun. It energizes me, renews my commitment to Aikido and all around makes me feel better about myself.
This is, of course, especially true when I visit a dojo where they do things radically differently from what I normally do and the Sensei says to me afterward, "You really did well. Better than most visitors we get here." (This happened to me a couple of times recently and I see it as validation of my training in an interesting sort of way.)
But even when I just struggle through and get to meet some new people, it's a good experience.
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06-04-2007, 02:14 PM
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Dojo: Aikido of Midland
Location: Midland Texas
Join Date: Dec 2000
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
What's a vacation?
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06-05-2007, 09:25 AM
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Dojo: Confluence Aiki-Dojo / Santa Cruz Sword Club
Location: Santa Cruz
Join Date: Feb 2007
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
Quote:
John Riggs wrote:
What's a vacation?
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LOL
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Jennifer Paige Smith
Confluence Aikido Systems
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06-05-2007, 03:54 PM
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Dojo: Ft. Myers School of Aikido
Location: Ft. Myers, FL.
Join Date: Apr 2005
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
Aikido on vacation? Would if I could!
The closest I've come to that is being able to go up to the aikiweb seminar (but only for one day ).
It wasn't a vacation, and I had to jump through some hoops to make it happen ( "Baby, uh, can we go visit your aunt in Orlando?" ). It was well worth the trip, though.
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06-05-2007, 04:08 PM
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Dojo: Yoshin-ji Aikido of Marshall
Location: Wisconsin
Join Date: Feb 2004
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
I have used all of my vacation time for aikido. Even those years where I was married I used the "every other vacation year" for aikido.
Well, I didn't stay married very long, although I always thought that harmony means "every other".
In gassho,
Mark
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06-05-2007, 09:46 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Kenkyukai International Fudoshin dojo Australia.
Location: Noosa Heads, Australia
Join Date: Dec 2002
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
http://www.fudoshindo.blogspot.com
Absolutly Yes. Always. Aikido keeps me travelling throughout the year. If its not Japan its Europe, if not Europe its closer to home. I love it. Osensei, if he was anything he was definatly a great explorer. What a wonder he left us with.
www.aikido-fudoshin.com
Last edited by Chicko Xerri : 06-05-2007 at 09:58 PM.
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06-08-2007, 08:40 AM
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Location: NJ
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Re: Poll: Do you like including aikido training as a part of vacation travel?
Yeppers,
I always check out the local dojo when travel. In fact, I was just in Orlando and got to train at Linden sensei's dojo. The time spent talking it up with him and training at the dojo made the trip so well worth it. Even made me forget the speeding ticket I got in South Carolina, sort of .
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