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People
One of the best things about doing a martial art is being part of a group. With koryu, you have your dojo group and then you have the broader group of students under your teacher. We are lucky in the Capital Area Jodokai to have a terrific group of students, and lucky to be part of a great, broader group under Kaminoda Sensei and the Nihon Jodokai.
Because we train and travel together, we really get to know each other, and make lasting friendships. Anyone who has spent much time around martial arts has seen cultish groups or been around groups made up of selfish egotists. We don’t have anyone like that. Someone like that probably wouldn’t last long with us; we just don’t have time for it.
We take our art seriously, but not ourselves.
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Photos courtesy Michael Rogers, Scott Rakow, Dan Pearson, Corey Comstock & Members of the Nihon Jodokai