These two Videos show highlights of the 2008 Silverstrand Dojo International Seminar!Here are three great videos of three Members of Silverstrand Dojo International!Welcome to the Web home of Silverstrand Dojo International. We greatly welcome good hearted people with good manners into our house. Below you will find a few questions and answers that should help you to understand who we are and what we believe in. If we can be any assistance to your walk on the path of the Martial arts please do not hesitated to contact us. But please remember we do not believe of the use of the Martial Arts in an aggressive or uncontrolled manner. So with this said please enjoy our home.
What is Silverstrand Dojo International?Silverstrand Dojo International is a group of Martial Arts schools (Dojo’s) that have banded together to fellowship and share information in a peaceful, controlled manner. We feel we learn more and grow as humans and warriors when we extend good will and share with good hearted people.What is the Philosophy of Silverstrand Dojo International?Very simply put our Philosophy is peace! But with that said we also realize that other misguided humans believe that winning and aggressive action is the best course of action. We train to be able to deal with these humans in a controlled and reasonable manner. If the world is filled with Wolfs and Sheep, we train to be the sheepdog. We deal with the wolf in a reasonable manner while protecting the beloved sheep. When we can we try and walk away from a fight. And if we do have to use force we try to always be controlled and reasonable. We also take responsible for our actions. We do this by studying the seven principles of Bushido and studying martial arts classics such as “The Art of Peace†by Morihei Ueshiba. We train three areas equally in a very exact order. First we train a very peaceful and strong spirit, second we train a very intelligent and tactical mind, and third we train a very healthy and strong body. When we combine these three areas we develop a human that is very good for our world. This is our way we are not better or worst then other humans we are just following our path.What is the History of Silverstrand Dojo International?In around 1982 as a young Black belt Silverstrand Sensei Silverstrand began his teaching career. He taught many class for a very large Dojo. In 1988 Silverstrand Sensei and the teacher of the school he was teaching at had a disagreement on Philosophy. Silverstrand Sensei left this school and for the next year trained alone and competed in tournaments with out a school supporting him. He very quickly realized that he was missing two things the fellowship of others to train with and the guide of a teacher. At this point he began his quest to solve these two problems. He started teaching 5 students in his back yard and various parks. He also started researching, traveling and searching for teachers to help walk the martial arts path. With much searching he was able to study with and receive guidance from many excellent teachers. To name a few Phil Porter, Lou Angel, Rickson Gracie, Fumio Toyoda, Terry Kelly, and Ernie Cates. While this was happening his student had grow to the point that training outside became impractical. So in 1990 Silverstrand Dojo moved in to the Willard community center on the south side of Lincoln. With in a year the dojo grew again so in 1991 Silverstrand Dojo rented it first place of its own. It was a 3 car garage located on west A street Lincoln Nebraska. It was at this time that Barron Sensei and Schneider Sensei who were already experienced martial artist began training with Silverstrand Dojo. With in two years again with the growth of students Silverstrand Dojo moved to an old warehouse on west van dorn. This was the first of two schools that would come to be known as the Tiger’s den. This Dojo could have also been called Hell Dojo. It was brutally hot in the summer and had no heat so in the winter the snow would actually blow in thru holes in the walls. There were many times when small wild animals were found in the dojo. In the winter the students would have to work extra hard just to give off body heat to heat the dojo. In 1993 again with the growth of students and being much more finically stable Silverstrand Dojo moved to 1st and west A st. This new dojo would become to know as the Tiger’s Den two. This was a much nicer dojo with much more room. It had a large mat area, two training floors with mirrors for karate training, over 12 different heavy bags for kickboxing training, a very well equipped weight room, men’s and women’s changing rooms, and a office for Silverstrand Sensei. Silverstrand Dojo happily trained at this location until 2001 when because of road construction to west A St. the building was torn down. So in 2001 Silverstrand Dojo moved to the downtown Lincoln YMCA. From 2001 until 2005 Silverstrand Dojo remained at the downtown YMCA. At this same time Silverstrand Sensei was living 45 miles away from Lincoln in the city of York. Four days a week he would drive 90 miles round trip to teach his beloved students, he made this trip with out fail for the next four years. In 2005 Silverstrand Sensei’s left his beloved Dojo to his Black belt students to realize his dream of moving to the Island of Lanzarote in Spain. With in the next two years the Downtown YMCA grew into three very strong Dojo’s in the Lincoln area. At the same time Silverstrand Sensei Started two different Dojo’s on the island of Lanzarote along with many private students. In January of 2006 Silverstrand Sensei returned to Lincoln to teach his first Seminar to his old Nebraska students. This was the changing point where Silverstrand Dojo Turned into Silverstrand Dojo International. Now Silverstrand Sensei returns every year to teach seminars and fellowship with students, teachers, and friends. What does the future hold for Silverstrand Dojo International no one can say? But who would have imagined that it could have grown as much has it has in a very few years.Why is Siverstrand Dojo an International Dojo?Silverstrand Dojo has been in existence over 25 years. This began when the fonder of Silverstrand Dojo began his teaching career in 1982. In that time the teachers of Silverstrand have taught seminars in many different countries thru out the world and have had students from all over the world experience their honorable and gentle style of teaching. Now at this point in time Silverstrand Dojo has active schools in various locations in the United States of American and also on the island of Lanzarote Spain. For this Reason Silverstrand Dojo has grown and evolved into Silverstrand Dojo International or SDI for short. Hopefully in the future Silverstrand Dojo International will continue to train people from all over the world in a honorable fashion and help to develop in it small way peace and understanding between people thru out the world.What countries do the Students of Silverstrand Dojo International Come from?
1. England
2. Ireland
3. Scotland
4. Wales
5. South Africa
6. Holland
7. Spain
8. Argentina
9. Columbia
10. Africa
11. Japan
12. Australia
13. France
14. Italy
15. Russia
16. Bosnia
17. United States of America
18. Korea
19. Germany
20. IranWhat are the Benefits of being a member of Silverstrand Dojo International?1. Being associated with good hearted people who study the martial arts.
2. Having availably to martial arts teachers with many years of training.
3. Having availably to bring in martial arts teachers from different parts of the world for seminars.
4. Having contacts with martial artists from different parts of the world.
5. On a periodic schedule receiving an e-mail martial arts newsletter.
6. Not walking the path of the martial arts path alone...
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