What grade is your Dojo leader / teacher? (Again)

**Timeline** · 22nd June 2009, 02:24 AM

Hi

I asked this question on KW a while ago here. Thought it would be good to ask again and see if anything has changed.

What grade is your Dojo leader / main teacher?

Many thanks

John

**b8amack** · 22nd June 2009, 02:30 AM

May I ask why it matters?

**NigelSponge** · 22nd June 2009, 03:21 AM

There is such a thing as curiosity...

**Abramo** · 22nd June 2009, 03:27 AM

Teacher's ranks is a good indicator of quality/progress of Kendo in a country (outside Japan and Korea). There are only a few countries that can have 7-dan sensei and even in those, lower ranked teachers are still (somewhat) common.

This is a good follow-up from the one the OP did years ago.

Unfortunatly my situation remains the same: sensei is still 7-dan, though he tried for 8-dan earlier this year.

**rfoxmich** · 22nd June 2009, 05:28 AM

Self promoted 10-dan Golden arches dojo .. SIR!!

**1prettygirl** · 22nd June 2009, 08:07 AM

My sensei's hachidan and his two sons are both rokudan

**sirius1906** · 22nd June 2009, 08:15 AM

kendo sensei: nanadan, rokudan, and so on.
iaido sensei: rokudan

**xvikingx** · 22nd June 2009, 08:36 AM

A few hachidan (one hanshi) and more nanadan than you can shake a shinai at.

**1prettygirl** · 22nd June 2009, 08:54 AM

is nanadan the highest grade obtainable in iaido? my sensei is also nanadan in iaido

**The great I AM** · 22nd June 2009, 09:15 AM

I put hachidan because I'm registered with 3 dojos, 2 of which have big men at the captain's table (one of them has 4....and it's not a police dojo!), and the Big O should be one by now anyway.

**Chaby** · 22nd June 2009, 05:04 PM

I'm jealous of you all!
I get to train only two-three times a year with a nanadan sensei, and only once did with a hachidan sensei in my Kendo life...

**Ookami7** · 22nd June 2009, 05:31 PM

Put Hachidan, Iaido - Hachidan plus a bunch of nana dans, Kendo --- will be starting up again and sensei is kyoshi nana dan (sp?) , Aikido not sure what the head Sensei rank is.

**atgm** · 22nd June 2009, 05:39 PM

Originally Posted by Abramo

Teacher's ranks is a good indicator of quality/progress of Kendo in a country (outside Japan and Korea). There are only a few countries that can have 7-dan sensei and even in those, lower ranked teachers are still (somewhat) common.

To be fair, you'd have to make separate threads for each area... I mean, I voted for 7-dan, but I also live in Japan, which I imagine would skew the statistics a little.