Hopefully I'm not stepping on anyones toes but I've recently been informed of the following: Kiyoyuki Terada, 10th dan Masazumi Matsuo, 8th dan Chizoku Matsuo,...
Apparently a whole whack more than just those three were recently promoted. If I understand correctly a lagre majority of the senior Japanese instructors in...
Yep. My instructor, Mizuno sensei, is now Shizuoka shibucho. Charles Yeomans...
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Happy New Year to all, I, and a few others from my dojo, recently received new dan certificates from Honbu. Having spent a few years in the kitchen of the ...
... Ummm ... the sticker on the back was never a translation of what is on the front. At least not since I've been receiving them and I have 4 at the moment. ...
Hi Steven, I think what Spike is trying to ilustrate is that for all appearances it looks like the IYAF simply evaporated. Some of the areas where the IYAF...
Hey Mike, I thought it was just me. I tried to impress a Japanese friend of mine, showing him one of my students new shiny certificate and telling him I could...
That is sort of it. When Inoue Sensei tried to change some things in how the honbu and IYAF related a few years back the International Yoshinkan world went ...
Hey Spike, Help me out here, but weren't some of the changes Inoue Sensei wanted to institute the following: -Change promotion criteria so that you had to be...
Hi Teddie, Inoue Sensei tried to make it so North America could administrate itself. The number of Yoshinkan students in North America is increasing every...
I think, in part, the reason this list s so quite is that we don't know or are not aware of the full extent of the changes that have taken place at Honbu....
... Like what? What else has changed that directly impacts the IYAF? Other than what appears to simply be a standardized diploma which is no big deal really. ...
Hello Matthew, Would you post a link to the Japanese list please? I've only seen the venom on 2ch, and would love to see some discussion on a Yoshinkan group. ...
... ... and this has changed how? The IYAF has always been managed/administered by the honbu dojo with it's diplomas signed by the Kancho or Dojocho of the...
Hi Steven and Koyaji, I may have used the wrong internet term when I wrote "list." Do they use "BB" outside of Japan? The Japanese messages I was referring to...
Thanks for the clarification Matthew.... _____ From: yoshinkan@yahoogroups.com [mailto:yoshinkan@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of matthew jameson Sent: Monday,...
No offense intended and sorry if there was some misunderstanding. I am not trying to enlighten anyone, nor did I intend suggest that anything with regard to...
Hello Matthew & Steven The long post I just put up was written before I saw Matthews. Thanks for the info and clarification, Matthew I hope I didn't offend,...
No offense taken I can assure you. I was just curious what you may know since you seemed to have first hand knowledge. As I recall, you train, or trained, at...
I see. Thanks for the message. Glad no offense was taken. I do train at honbu, but the only real knowledge I have is from keeping my ear to the ground and...
The answer seems simple to me, why not start a new organization here in Canada? It seems like in the past and now with the current state of affairs there...
Yoshinkan is the name of the dojo, whereas the Yoshinkai is the name of the foundation (non-profit organization) that runs the dojo and all branch and...
Thank you. I thought it might be something like that. Andrew ... From: koyaji To: yoshinkan@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 7:10 PM Subject:...
If anyone is interested, the english site was just updated with a new instructors list for honbu (Japanese site has not been updated ... Shioda Kancho 8th dan ...
Yeah I'm totally serious. All I hear is nothing but bitching about how North America (yeah you guys too baha hahaha) gets left out of the loop when it comes...
