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11-05-2004, 04:17 PM
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Student Qualities/Characteristics
Hi everyone,
To follow up on this thread...
Without naming names, what qualities and characteristics of an aikido student impress you most?
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11-05-2004, 04:41 PM
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Dojo: Beach Cities Aikido
Location: Long Beach, CA
Join Date: Apr 2003
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
humble and cooperative....not speaking as an actual aikido instructor though;-)
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11-05-2004, 06:51 PM
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Dojo: Puget Sound Aikikai
Location: Seattle
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
How about open to instruction (not needing to be dragged through everything).
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11-05-2004, 08:22 PM
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Dojo: Roppongi Yoshinkan Aikido / Roppongi, Tokyo, Japan
Location: Tokyo
Join Date: Jul 2004
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
Someone who shows up to train (or watch) consistantly.
--Michael
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Hiriki no yosei 3 - The kihon that makes your head ache instead of your legs
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11-05-2004, 10:26 PM
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Dojo: Numazu Aikikai/Aikikai Honbu Dojo
Location: Three Lakes WI/ Mishima Japan
Join Date: May 2003
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
Someone with a positive and friendly attitude.
Charles Hill
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11-05-2004, 11:32 PM
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Dojo: Great Wave Aikido
Location: Alberta, Canada
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
I like someone who asks questions; voices uncertainty or concerns; doesn't just say 'yes Sensei'. It shows they're thinking; not just trying to learn by rote.  |
Answers are only easy when they're incomplete.
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11-06-2004, 01:02 AM
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Dojo: none at the moment
Location: Wuhan, Hubei
Join Date: Nov 2003
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
Somebody with God-like strength, killer good looks, girls hanging from their biceps.
Somebody like.....me!
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11-06-2004, 01:49 AM
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Dojo: Shodokan Honbu (Osaka)
Location: Himeji, Japan
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
The willingness to share the girls.
Considering the state of one of your arms Jesse - you should be thankful.
Seriously. Someone who attends consistently, knows how to drive their own training and is willing to help those with less experience.
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11-06-2004, 08:47 AM
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Location: Florida Gulf coast
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
Consistent attendance, openness to learn, a positive respectful attitude, a good sense of humor, and humility.
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Lynn Seiser PhD
Yondan Aikido & FMA/JKD
We do not rise to the level of our expectations, but fall to the level of our training. Train well. KWATZ!
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11-07-2004, 12:08 AM
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Dojo: Seiwa Dojo and Southside Dojo
Location: Battle Creek & Kalamazoo, MI
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
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Lynn Seiser wrote:
Consistent attendance, openness to learn, a positive respectful attitude, a good sense of humor, and humility.
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All this and pays dues on time without having to be reminded 
Bronson (who really hates having to remind people to pay their dues)
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"A pacifist is not really a pacifist if he is unable to make a choice between violence and non-violence. A true pacifist is able to kill or maim in the blink of an eye, but at the moment of impending destruction of the enemy he chooses non-violence."
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11-07-2004, 09:12 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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Re: Student Qualities/Characteristics
I guess I could only think of the qualities/characteristics I don't want...
1. Come to class late and leave early so as to not help laying out the mats and put them away.
2. Only comes to class to talk.
3. Finds any excuse to get out of or disrupt training.
4. Keeps trying to teach everyone including the teachers.
5. The "In my style we do it this way..." guy.
6. The "I should be at the top because I have a blackbelt in some other style" guy.
7. Injures other students.
8. Rude to others and talks back or disrespects the teachers.
9. Comes only to challenge people to a fight.
10. Doesn't keep himself clean.
11. Comes to the school drunk.
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