How to find the best Aikido dojo : Teacher(s) - Finding the right teacher is no easy task and yet it is one of the most important decisions you will have to make for your aikido career. As a beginner it will be difficult to know good aikido from bad. You will have to go by your instincts to some extent but use the measures below to help you. The grade of the teacher(s) can be important if it was awarded by a credited organisation. Quality - Look for grade of the teacher(s) and more importantly look at who awarded the grade. Look for direct teacher-student relationships which go all the way back to the founder of Aikido. After all, the founder of Aikido taught his art to a group of close students. These students in turn taught it to their close students, and so on. If there was no close and longstanding relationship going all the way back to the founder one has to wonder what kind, and quality of Aikido an individual practises. Therefore lineage is a good indicator of transmission of the art from the Founder of Aikido to the teacher concerned. There are many self graded Aikido people. In many cases this self-grading system may go back two or three generations where an individual has promoted himself/herself and then promoted their students, then promoted himself/herself and so on. Often these people learned Aikido by spending short periods with creditable teachers (perhaps not even this) or from a distance by a combination of attending some classes and some courses and watching videos and so on, but without any deep teacher-student relationship of any length where true learning/transfer takes place. It is common to look at Aikido practise from a distance and think I can do that. Mimicking movements superficially and understanding what makes them work are are very different things.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 01:42:48 +0000
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