Hi y'all I studied a style of Karate called Bushido, which was based on Kyukushin and was created after Mas Oyama's death. My Sensei passed from cancer about three years ago. When he died he left the dojo to his wife who was only a nidan, and becasue of politics and external influence she broke away from the Bushido system. To make matters stranger her husband, my sensei, was the son of the headmaster of Bushido. I trained with her for a couple of years after his death out of loyalty. But I got to the point where I could see she had totaly went away from what Sensei had taught. So I quit at the end of 2001 at the rank of Ikkyu. At that point she was no longer teaching the bushido system and had distanced herself from from the headmaster, her former father in law, so there was no one to test and rank me. I live in another state now, away from the headmaster. But I am in good standing with him. He offered to train me, but I took a job after college that put me in another state. And before sensei died he left me documentation on the Kata's and Kihon, so I have an idea of the bushido knowledge base. My question is this, Could I train on my own? Building from what I know and learning the new kata's that he had planed for me to learn? I feal this is the only way to show any honor to what he has taught me and I have yet to see a Karate Dojo that was of the same caliber as his was. So can I as an Ikkyu build on what I have been taught and train myself? P.S I left out the whole name of the Karate style and the state to protect the honor of the Dojo and Style. I know what Bushido is