Hi Richard thanks for your very interesting responses. Different views and
opinions is what makes healthy debate and democratic societies.

It would not have mattered what rank I had. We were refused entry because
we did not have a grading that was recognised by hombu.

Further how do test competency or qualifications. I have trained with many
Dan grades who are hard, rough, disrespectful, arrogant, and who couldn¹t
find their centre, or yours, if you gave them a map with the spot marked X
on it

On the question of style- what is style anyway. Sure some schools believe
that their way to do Ikkyo is the right way, but there are many ways to do
ikkyo and they are all right as long as you work with the principles of
Aikido.

To suggest that an Australian Dan grading is better than one from Middle
Slobovia is a question of ego. Anyway it was Aiki-Kai that expressed their
ego by excluding people.

In the memory of the great Graeme "Shirley" Strachan ³ego is not a dirty
word²




On 26/1/06 1:01 PM, "Richard Pernatin" <aikione2001@...> wrote:

> 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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