Hi Assunta,

I have another point of view for you to consider. That perhaps this
is the universe working in your favour. A rejection hurts,
especially when it is so unjust, but maybe it is better that you do
not train with such narrow-minded people. Or maybe the seminar is
destined to be blown to smithereens by terrorists and you're being
saved. Maybe you need to be somewhere else instead. Or maybe this
discussion is the ultimate reason.

The universe works in mysterious ways.

I'd also be wary of people who are so eager to air their dirty
laundry in public that the words Melbourne and Japan somehow look
like each other...

Take care,
Lauren


--- In Aikido_Australia@yahoogroups.com, Assunta Morrone
<assuntam@o...> wrote:
>
> 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@y...> 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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