Senshusei course
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The Senshusei course is tough and grueling 1-year full time aikido training course conducted annually at Yoshinkan Honbu dojo, Tokyo. Course participants, even those with aikido experience, begin studying with the basic movements and are quickly taught the syllabus of Yoshinkan Aikido's basic techniques. Instruction is in Japanese and English, and given by teachers who regularly invited for international tours. Course graduates typically earn their shodan before course completion if they have not already achieved the rank.
This course was originally created to train some of the Tokyo Riot police during a period of civil unrest in the early 1960's. A number of Tokyo Metropolitan Police still undertake this course every year, but it has been made available to non-police candidates since 1991. The senshusei course was made famous through the Robert Twigger novel Angry White Pyjamas. Many of graduates of the program have gone on to teach and open Yoshinkan dojo in countries that include: Australia, Canada, Israel, Germany, Portugal, the UK, and the United States.
This course was previously referred to as the "Instructor's Course" but as the emphasis is more on learning, training and developing spirit than on learning how to instruct aikido and hance the name has been changed.
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