Hmmm, when I read or hear or see someone arrive for a seminar who holds a title like, "Grandmaster" I tend to, like others probably, expect something interesting, unique and special. What I have found is the grandmaster simply teaches and demonstrates those very things that my sensei, a ni-dan at the time, taught me and better. Why is it that such titles tend to impress and inspire especially when what is presented is no different than what a sho-dan or ni-dan, etc., provide every single day on the dojo floor.
Is there something I am missing? AND Is there something I am unable to detect when grandmaster so-n-so gets up and teaches the same ole-thing? AND I'll take a dedicated unadorned and dedicated sho-dan or ni-dan or even san-dan any day of the week and I would still expect that at a seminar what is presented has some unique value to all attendees and not just a regurgitation of the same ole thing taught often every day in the dojo.
Now, without the titles, etc., if a seminar or other venue is provided with the express purpose of getting like-minded folks together for a socially effective get-together to practice AND train and celebrate the groups beliefs AND understanding AND training in a unique AND effective system beneficial to all involved...that is something unique AND special!
The best seminars I have attended and enjoyed are those that are a gathering of dojo-clan's AND leadership that exchange all kinds of thoughts, perceptions, concepts AND experiences so as to contribute to the creation of personal concepts that take the discipline to the next level in the evolutionary process of people and concepts and systems and styles and practices...regardless!
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