Hi Assunta, Sorry to hear about your plight - so I thought I would add my 3
cents worth.

1. Why don't you attend as a white belt. Every time I go to a different
school or style of Aikido or martial arts where I feel that my rank would not be
accepted or in fact get in the way of the new teachings, I wear a white belt. I
still get the benefit of the training without the hassel. ( Wearing a white
belt no one expects you to know anything)

2. Do you know if this semminar is closed to just that style or for specific
grades or maybe for instructors only etc?

3. This is the difficult point to explaine - but here goes - about
recognition of ranks - If you needed brain surgery and I approached you and
told you I was a qualified brain surgen - wouldn't you ask for some proof? And
if I showed you my deploma that I graduated from brain surgery school in Middle
Slobovia, but don't you worry that I don't have Australian qualifications would
you let me operate? What I am saying is that everyone has the right to accept
or deny your rank. So if I really wanted to go, I would supress my ego, put on
my white belt and enjoy the teachings.

Cheers Richard


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