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**opergolon** · 08-23-2007, 04:51 PM

I honestly don't know, perhaps Marsten sensei does? Come to think of it, I'm not aware of any dojang, KKF or otherwise, north of the Calif. Bay area.

To the best of my knowledge on this wonderful action it is a few clubs in Southern California, a few in Northern California and two in the greater Seattle area. I was told that all up they would add several hundred new dues payers to the AUSKF coffers. That in itself should be reason enough to bring them in. I intend to check and see if this membership is actually valid. AS near as I can tell right now it is an invalid action by president Hori. No were in the AUSKF newsletter does it say they voted on this action but rather it was under review.

As to the two in Washington, one of them is half a block from Bellevue Kendo Club. That would prevent them from joining PNKF unless Bellevue said it was OK. The other is located in Lynnwood, WA. between SnoKing and Everett. It would appear that they are in no way able to issue menjo/grades of the same requirements based on their membership. However who is going to check on them. They can put on paper anything they want and turn it in to the AUSKF.

The best part is now they can make a regional team to compete in nationals with people from all over the entire west coast. For all we know it may include people from the east coast too. As one AUSKF director said to me who is totally against this "how do you know the people on the team didn't just step off the airplane from Korea". I don't know that they would do that but certainly there will be a lack of visibility with regard to the membership. As pointed out earlier with the number of Peter Kim's around. We have had as many as 14 Kim's in Bellevue at one time. We have to go by middle initials in order to sort them out for taikai and shinsa.

On the bright side we will not have the actual KKA doing as much business in the US. It has always puzzled me why it is OK for the KKA to have dojang here in the US when we all belong to the FIK. The other is the dojang down the street keeps providing me with new members who want to get more for less $$.
It should prove an interesting discussion amongst the PNKF board as to how we will interact with our new neighbors.

08-23-2007, 04:51 PM	#27
opergolon Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 489 Senior Member	I honestly don't know, perhaps Marsten sensei does? Come to think of it, I'm not aware of any dojang, KKF or otherwise, north of the Calif. Bay area. To the best of my knowledge on this wonderful action it is a few clubs in Southern California, a few in Northern California and two in the greater Seattle area. I was told that all up they would add several hundred new dues payers to the AUSKF coffers. That in itself should be reason enough to bring them in. I intend to check and see if this membership is actually valid. AS near as I can tell right now it is an invalid action by president Hori. No were in the AUSKF newsletter does it say they voted on this action but rather it was under review. As to the two in Washington, one of them is half a block from Bellevue Kendo Club. That would prevent them from joining PNKF unless Bellevue said it was OK. The other is located in Lynnwood, WA. between SnoKing and Everett. It would appear that they are in no way able to issue menjo/grades of the same requirements based on their membership. However who is going to check on them. They can put on paper anything they want and turn it in to the AUSKF. The best part is now they can make a regional team to compete in nationals with people from all over the entire west coast. For all we know it may include people from the east coast too. As one AUSKF director said to me who is totally against this "how do you know the people on the team didn't just step off the airplane from Korea". I don't know that they would do that but certainly there will be a lack of visibility with regard to the membership. As pointed out earlier with the number of Peter Kim's around. We have had as many as 14 Kim's in Bellevue at one time. We have to go by middle initials in order to sort them out for taikai and shinsa. On the bright side we will not have the actual KKA doing as much business in the US. It has always puzzled me why it is OK for the KKA to have dojang here in the US when we all belong to the FIK. The other is the dojang down the street keeps providing me with new members who want to get more for less $$. It should prove an interesting discussion amongst the PNKF board as to how we will interact with our new neighbors.
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