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 From Beckham Sensei "Hello everyone and welcome to our website; I hope you have found it valuable. I also hope that our dojo is a place you feel will benefit you in many ways. It definitely will, but every effort must be made by you to insure that the integrity of the Art remains intact and we, as students, do not allow a complacent attitude to pervade the spirit of Aikido. We all experience martial art training as something different - something that uniquely benefits each of us. The saying, "You will get out of the Art what you put into it", could never be so true. Certainly no one wishes to waste his/her time or hard earned money on something that would be of no value. I know this all too well from my own experiences. I can say, without reservation, that our style and our dojo are concerned with the facets of life that we all hold close to our hearts. Things like integrity, honor, loyalty, respect, obligation, courtesy, and courage. Also, the importance of physical fitness and coordination. Balance, a key requirement to longevity as well as physical fitness, is mental as well as physical. I could list many others aspects to training but I think you get the picture. Strive for every positive and sound characteristic in learning about life and daily living that you can. Not a single one of us has mastered wisdom! Thus our lives should be replete with the endless struggle to become more intelligent, wise, and strong. Stress and complacency - the enemies of us all - should be the things we learn to combat as well as an attacker. Our outlook on life is a choice we make. What we choose today will affect us tomorrow."
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