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<blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 7699" data-attributes="member: 221">Ok - let me address my thoughts to the dojo structure...In the committee we tried to figure out when a person could open a dojo and so-on and so forth.&nbsp; As I was thinking about it last week it struck me that simpler was better, hence dojo style for four ranks as opposed to dojo student, dojo teacher, dojo master, dojo elder.The dojo student rule addresses the structure.&nbsp; To learn a dojo style you have to have a teacher of higher rank- period... thus a yellow belt could learn from a green, brown, black, grandmaster, perfect master.&nbsp; This also means there is no worries if a yellow is joined to a green and the green goes to brown.&nbsp; Plus it enables a brown to keep open a dojo they have started.The earliest one can open a dojo is at green belt- this dojo can be open for the career of the fighter as long as they don't drop to yellow. Random thought- accepting students should be the choice of the teacher.The structure of any single dojo includes the head of the dojo and all those below him and those below his students and so on and so forth.&nbsp; Let us not make rules though about what you have to do in your dojo as far as &quot;structure&quot; more than the basics.Sidhe Li for instance, a wandering teacher might teach three students.&nbsp; Two of those might settle down and open dojos whilst the third also becomes a wandering teacher.&nbsp; Though they all continue to look to him as a teacher.&nbsp; The rules allow for this.&nbsp; Or Tsin might start a dojo, have it grow and open up &quot;branch offices&quot; managed by some of her favorite students.&nbsp; And while Tsin a brown belt has green belts managing offices and teaching prospects, she may still take the odd yellow belt under her wing or accept green belts as students, even though they have opened their own dojos elsewhere.&nbsp; The rules allow for all this too.&nbsp; In other words the rules are specifically vague to allow for role-playing whilst creating a structure that allows one to know who is under whom.It is advantegous however for one who becomes a grandmaster to have as many in their own one dojo structure as possible.I mentioned in another thread but this is a good place to bring it up again.&nbsp; Students who want to switch dojos (or join an existing dojo if they don't belong to one yet) should be free to do so, but they must declare at the beginning of a fight their desire to do so and drop any known dojo style before the fight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wicht, post: 7699, member: 221"] Ok - let me address my thoughts to the dojo structure... In the committee we tried to figure out when a person could open a dojo and so-on and so forth. As I was thinking about it last week it struck me that simpler was better, hence dojo style for four ranks as opposed to dojo student, dojo teacher, dojo master, dojo elder. The dojo student rule addresses the structure. To learn a dojo style you have to have a teacher of higher rank- period... thus a yellow belt could learn from a green, brown, black, grandmaster, perfect master. This also means there is no worries if a yellow is joined to a green and the green goes to brown. Plus it enables a brown to keep open a dojo they have started. The earliest one can open a dojo is at green belt- this dojo can be open for the career of the fighter as long as they don't drop to yellow. [i]Random thought- accepting students should be the choice of the teacher.[/i] The structure of any single dojo includes the head of the dojo and all those below him and those below his students and so on and so forth. Let us not make rules though about what you have to do in your dojo as far as "structure" more than the basics. Sidhe Li for instance, a wandering teacher might teach three students. Two of those might settle down and open dojos whilst the third also becomes a wandering teacher. Though they all continue to look to him as a teacher. The rules allow for this. Or Tsin might start a dojo, have it grow and open up "branch offices" managed by some of her favorite students. And while Tsin a brown belt has green belts managing offices and teaching prospects, she may still take the odd yellow belt under her wing or accept green belts as students, even though they have opened their own dojos elsewhere. The rules allow for all this too. In other words the rules are specifically vague to allow for role-playing whilst creating a structure that allows one to know who is under whom. It is advantegous however for one who becomes a grandmaster to have as many in their own one dojo structure as possible. I mentioned in another thread but this is a good place to bring it up again. Students who want to switch dojos (or join an existing dojo if they don't belong to one yet) should be free to do so, but they must declare at the beginning of a fight their desire to do so and drop any known dojo style before the fight. [/QUOTE]

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