Blade96
Senior Master
Ok I read all the web stuff that says its the teacher, not the art, and the 'right and good way' to choose a MA school, but there must be ways people chose a school and an art that did not follow those rules.
and for rookies out there wondering how to choose a school and a MA according to what i read mine was the wrong way to choose a school so i must have just got lucky so avoid my way lol
But How did I choose my shotokan dojo and choose Shotokan.
Well I got sick in april 2009 and suffered an allergic reaction to the meds. so i was sick the whole summer and was practically bedridden. so when i got better around august i grabbed a bunch of movies. 3 of them were my Blade trilogy. For some reason I got interested in Snipes so I started doing reading on him. I didnt plan to become a MA; just woke up one day and had a thought I wanted to look for whatever snipes did. Didnt know the name of it then. I found a ma dojo of karate which was pretty much the only MA I knew of. I looked and it wasnt what Snipes did but I signed up for two months while looking. I learned at that time that this Karate was called Kenpo and the Kenpo sensei mentioned this other kind called Shotokan. By pure luck I was reading through a newspaper and saw an ad advertising a Shotokan dojo. It was the last time it was advertised in that newspaper which was the only one I read at that time. Pure luck. Still didnt know if it was what Snipes did. So I went to take a look and met the man who is now my sensei and always has been. The moment I saw the class start, I had an "aha!" moment. It was what I'd been looking for. It is what snipes does in blade movies. Signed up that day (september 10, 2009) and never looked back.
Odd thing It wasnt planned. Its like it was planned for me, like I was meant to become a Shotokanka. I told my sensei this story and he's like You were meant to meet us and to do this. Its called destiny"
Only after did I find out about everything the internet says you should look for. Everything is legit and good and everything I wanted and needed.
Has insurance for example and a rich lineage going back to Funakoshi himself. 
But there must be lots of different ways and such that people find an art they love and a school to study in. Besides the right way the Net tells you I mean. How did you choose yours? Mine I looked for an art, not a teacher. I got lucky, I think.
I am just thinking it might help other people find a school and an art too if people said how they found their ones.
Oh. and i quit the kenpo school after the 2 months was up.
But I thought this topic might be nice to know how people chose their school/art and it might be helpful to rookies looking how to choose a school/art and to read how other people chose theirs.
and for rookies out there wondering how to choose a school and a MA according to what i read mine was the wrong way to choose a school so i must have just got lucky so avoid my way lol

But How did I choose my shotokan dojo and choose Shotokan.
Well I got sick in april 2009 and suffered an allergic reaction to the meds. so i was sick the whole summer and was practically bedridden. so when i got better around august i grabbed a bunch of movies. 3 of them were my Blade trilogy. For some reason I got interested in Snipes so I started doing reading on him. I didnt plan to become a MA; just woke up one day and had a thought I wanted to look for whatever snipes did. Didnt know the name of it then. I found a ma dojo of karate which was pretty much the only MA I knew of. I looked and it wasnt what Snipes did but I signed up for two months while looking. I learned at that time that this Karate was called Kenpo and the Kenpo sensei mentioned this other kind called Shotokan. By pure luck I was reading through a newspaper and saw an ad advertising a Shotokan dojo. It was the last time it was advertised in that newspaper which was the only one I read at that time. Pure luck. Still didnt know if it was what Snipes did. So I went to take a look and met the man who is now my sensei and always has been. The moment I saw the class start, I had an "aha!" moment. It was what I'd been looking for. It is what snipes does in blade movies. Signed up that day (september 10, 2009) and never looked back.
Odd thing It wasnt planned. Its like it was planned for me, like I was meant to become a Shotokanka. I told my sensei this story and he's like You were meant to meet us and to do this. Its called destiny"
Only after did I find out about everything the internet says you should look for. Everything is legit and good and everything I wanted and needed.


But there must be lots of different ways and such that people find an art they love and a school to study in. Besides the right way the Net tells you I mean. How did you choose yours? Mine I looked for an art, not a teacher. I got lucky, I think.
I am just thinking it might help other people find a school and an art too if people said how they found their ones.

Oh. and i quit the kenpo school after the 2 months was up.

But I thought this topic might be nice to know how people chose their school/art and it might be helpful to rookies looking how to choose a school/art and to read how other people chose theirs.

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