My biggest concern with mixing other students with the Senshusei that some will
use that oppertunity to say they took the Senshusei course.
As long as they stay with IYAF that will not be a problem because such claims
will be shot down rather quickly. But once someone leaves IYAF it will be too
easy to associate thier name with Senshusei and possibly tarnish the reputation
of the course.

Senshusei should remain completely seperate from all other Yoshinkan classes.
I don't know if the rank certificates look different. I hope that there is some
additional certification to distinguish between Senshusei black belts and the
others.


----- Original Message ----
From: aikispike <aikispike@...>
To: yoshinkan@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:27:51 PM
Subject: [Yoshinkan] summer mini-course would be most convenient

The three month winter course seems to be having people join the
senshusei after the black belt exam has finished for the last part of
the course. This is when the senshusei are doing their instruction
phase and preparing for the final test.

If the the short course people and senshusei are all training together
I think its a bad idea (but not as incredibly, horribly bad as the
original idea; this is just kinda bad). The problem with mixing people
in with the senshusei in Janauary is that at that point the senshusei
are very fit and quite hard and strong. They will be too hard to train
with for most normal people for any extened period of time - not
because they are good, just because they are strong. Normal people wont
like training with the senshusei three classes a day at the pace they
train at. (If you are thinking "I can take it, those guys aren't that
tough" let me tell you I wouldn't want to train with them and I did the
course.)

Also, who can take Jan, Feb, and March off? This is a very hard time
for anyone to get off. The winter months are convenient for honbu, but
a new short course should really be convenient for the potential
students. It is a good idea that might fail because not enough people
can attend at that time.

If there is going to be an instructor program tailored to short term
visitors then I believe that a 10 week program in the summer months
would be best. Schoole teachers, and a lot of aikido teachers are
school teachers, have the summer off. Lots of others could get summer
off as it is a slow time for most companies. I bet a summer course
would make for a nice flow of students from around the world each year.

Spike

--- Toronto Aikido Dojo - Shunpukan <dojo@torontoaikido. com> wrote:

> But they kept the three month instructors course. This is great for
> those
> unable to become an Senshusei due to time/family/ life restraints, but
> wish
> to further educate themselves about instructing.

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