Gift For Sensei?

[cartoon22]

I personnally can not see a problem with a student paying the instructor a gift, Providing it in done for the right reasons.

 

What happens if the instructor gets used to getting gifts say after a grading and non are fore coming, how does that make them feel.

 

I have not come across the problem of gofts from students to instuctors at our club the instructors buy gifts for the students (juniors) for the work that they have put in over the year.

[pineapple]

I receive gifts from my students and give gifts to my instructor.

 

It's all part of the beauty of the closeness one gets when everyone strives to achieve a common goal. When a student strives to achieve a black belt, the instructor's goal is also the same which is to make that person a black belt and this common goal develops a bond which is often expressed in gifts. To me, receiving and giving gifts have a great sentimental value.

[SenseiJMA]

Well said pineapple.

[BlackBeltHorseRider]

And they like homemade things too. Quite a few months ago, on my sensei's birthday, I gave him this really nice cross-stitch cloth design that I'd started about 2 months before his birthday. He liked it. He framed it and keeps it on the wall where TONS of people can see it.

[Sparkey]

I made my Sensei a pair of Tonfa and a set of Nunchaku for Christmas. Lucky sensei! The best set I've ever made.

[pressureguy]

I read an article in Black Belt magazine a while back saying that a good gift for the teacher would be a really nice first aid kit.

 

I liked the idea.

 

pressureguy