Today I visited a dojo in Mission Viejo just outside of Los Angeles.  The atmosphere was warm and welcoming and the Sensei was pleased to have me practice with them and even asked if I would lead a practice on Thursday night. I declined that offer and said that I would prefer to learn and practice what they were teaching.

I also declined for other reasons.  One being that since our “style” and” teaching methodology” was very different from their methods  that by doing a one shot intervention it might simply confuse their students.  The dojo is a new dojo and I doubt, but  I could be wrong,  that many have gone to seminars put on by other Sensei’s. I would feel badly introducing conflicting techniques/ideas into their training.

I will probably visit them again on Thursday as I am always interested in how other Sensei’s teach and where their technical basics come from.