Thank you so much for the hospitality and hosting an amazing seminar :). Can’t wait to see you again, it’s always a pleasure.

I have shown multiple people at work as well as family photos of your dojo and they are amazed at the size and how nice it is.

Thank you so much for allowing me to come to your beautiful dojo and train with you. I learned a lot. At times I felt like a failure but I had to focus on just improving my technique and realizing that I had fundamentals but needed to experience other training partners. I hope to continue my learning of Aikido.   This is an experience I won’t forget and hope to re-experience again in the future.

Thank you for your time, effort, and insight. You have helped me learn the importance clarity, and a good smile. I really can’t think of any way to repay you other than committing to Aikido.

Thank you for all of your help, advise, and guidance.

I am deeply grateful for the experiences that I had at your dojo, the lessons learned during your classes, and the patience you always had with me. I have recommended your dojo to many of my clients for the past few months

You are two of the greatest people I’ve ever met and I am honored to call you friends and family.  As I reflect back on when our paths crossed, I really believe it was destined to be.  I have grown into the person I have always wanted to be and you have both helped facilitate that.

I want to be able to give that to others, share in your legacy and really make a difference.  I think we are on the right path

Thank you so much for all you do for our kiddos. We are so happy we found aikido. You are so good to all of the families. We really appreciate all of your hard work.

Thank you for your supporting the kids.

I thank you for all that you have done for my kids.  Your program is amazing.  It was a privilege to be a part of it.  Bless you and yours.

I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed your aikido seminar last month! It was challenging, but I appreciated your willingness to work with me, and how encouraging everyone was. Thank you again, and I look forward to learning from you again in the future!

Once again my gratitude for your organizational skills and hard work hosting the seminar/gasshuku at the Lake.

I very much appreciated the Kenshukai seminar and all the effort the two of you put into making it happen. Your commitment and service to whose Aikido teaching community is evident. I always learn something new when I have the opportunity to rub shoulders with other teachers like yourself. Thanks for hosting this event!

I want to thank you for allowing me to use the dojo as  venue.  I wanted to show them that we have  beautiful dojo’s in the States, and not conduct the seminar in a gym. I appreciate it very much. Also thank you for recommending Yoshiko as a translator, she did a great job. I appreciate you opening it up to your students as well. It was nice to train with Rich, Robert and Tom again. I was surprised by the turnout, thank you for helping make that possible.

Arisue and Nakamichi commented on how beautiful the dojo was and they were impressed and liked the fact that you not only trained with Saito Sensei, but you are keeping his legacy going here in the U.S.  Arisue was an uchideshi with Saito Sensei when he was in college and told a story about his memories of that time during the seminar on Saturday and explained when he walked into your dojo and saw the photo of Saito Sensei, what he felt. That was very cool to hear.

On behalf of Traditional Aikido of Sarasota, I personally wanted to say Thank You for all you and your dojo do, to run and provide the Tahoe Almost Annual Gasshuku for all of us.

Your leadership is very much appreciated.  I personally had an amazing good training this year, as always….  every year is amazing.

Thank you for all you do, for all of us in TAA and your ongoing support of Traditional Aikido of Sarasota.

Thank you again for all you are doing to spread O’Sensei’s message.

Blessings

I’m going to share all of the material attached and from today with my co-instructor for the Aikido Institute, Martha Evans-Holm, as well as with our dojo-cho, Deborah Maizels and David Lewin, and perhaps other senior instructors.

Thank you, Sensei, for the fantastic venue.

Thank you so much for letting us use your beautiful, peaceful dojo as our learning space 🙂

From going to all your kids seminar over the years I have learned so much on how to teach the kids, and this again gave us new ideas and things to discuss on what we feel we’re doing right and what we will add or change to our testing and what to test on. Thank you again for setting it all up. You did a really great job.

Thank you for holding a place for me here in the dojo & in your heart. Your dedication to your students, me included, is an inspiration and this dream facility is always a joy to visit. Thank you for your teaching.

Thank you for coming to Fredericksburg and building a wonderful dojo and magnificent program.

Thank you for your time and effort in teaching us. I have enjoyed every minute of it!

Thank you very much for the opportunity to train here, and for all of the great instruction I’ve received. I consider it an honor and a real privilege to be a member of this community, and I realize that I’m really just beginning my journey in this art.

The friendships, support, and opportunities for personal growth I found at Aikido in Fredericksburg were invaluable during my time at university. Thank you for welcoming me at your dojo and connecting me with the wider aikido community in the U.S., for being patient and for teaching me, through aikido, confidence, aplomb, composure, and not sticking my butt out when doing Tai No Henko. I am still working on that last one.