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Thanx for your advice! As far as the teacher's reputation well I haven't seen him. All that we have talked was by phone and the demonstration class is this sunday. He also told my friend he was a direct student from Remy Presas. I'll see what's the real deal this sunday!

Hi all, I have the opportunity to train in Aikido during the week and train on Kali on fridays, saturdays and sundays for two hours a day and the class is made of my best friend, me and the Kali teacher. I would like to take Aikido because I really like it(gotta love locks and throws ) and besides liking kali alot and the fact that it will be almost a personal class I would like to get the speed, reflexes, agility, help my left hand to react better(not that I have a problem with it, but because I've heard that by training in Kali/eskrima you can get both hands to be = in alot of aspects that normal person can't do) and to get a good workout. I would like to know if this is a good opportunity. Take into consideration that I haven't started training on any of them and that I have never trained in a MA, althought I do alot of sports, I learn fast and I have the time and dedication to master a MA and I'm 19yrs old. Will I have alot of trouble mastering both at the "same" time? Should I try it? Your advice will be appreciated! Thanx!

Hi all, I recently went to an Aikido dojo to see what they offered. I liked the class, the dojo and the fact that you can train from monday to saturday. The only thing I didn't like was that they had no order in teaching. They teached the beginners the basic rolls, stance, footwork and how to fall(In fact, it is practiced in everyclass for the first 30min) and the rest of the class was the same for everyone. From advanced to beginners they teached the same technique. It didn't matter if it was to difficult for the beginners or to easy for the advanced students... Is this good or bad? Also I would like to know you opinion on this... Everyday there's a different sensei. Each with their own style as an Aikidoka and as a teacher. The sensei teaching tomorrow does not know what the other sensei is teaching today. Is this OK? Is this better or worse? I'm not dissing the system, I'm just curious if this dojo has better things than bad things. Also I found another dojo which seems to me that has more of an order in teaching, there's only one sensei, but they only train on tuesdays, thursdays and saturdays. The question is If this other dojo teaches in a more of a curriculum way should I sacrifice training everyday with a different sensei and with no order in techniques, etc. for training only two days a week with a more staged curriculum and the same sensei every class Your advice will be greatly appreciated!