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    Default New JSA Dojo Project!

    Dear All,

    As it has only received a brief mention to my friends on Facebook, you probably aren't aware that we have been looking (for about six months) for a building to lease for use as a permanent JSA dojo.

    Well, it looks like the search is over!

    We have found a chap who is willing to lease out part of his warehouse which he intends to use for archive storage, and using a mix of bribing, begging, cajoling, lying and threatening, we have secured the front 2500 square feet for our dojo for not a great deal more than we would pay to hire a similar size of sports hall each week. While it is not 100% set in stone yet (we are still have to have legal bods look over the lease agreement etc), it looks like this is going ahead.

    Anyway, to keep interested parties 'in the know', I have set up a blog so you can RSS/subscribe/visit/whatever and see how we're getting on!

    We have uploaded some photos of the building as it is now, and also some renderings of what it will look like once we have it all JSA'ed up! Your thoughts, opinions and ideas would be highly appreciated at this early stage of planning. We have no doubt missed something out in our design process!

    Here's the blog:

    http://heijoshin.wordpress.com

    All the best,

    Scott
    Scott Halls
    Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu Kenjutsu - Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iai
    兵法二天一流剣術 - 無双直伝英信流居合

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    Congrads and good luck with the new venture! Hope it turns out well and that you will have a brand new place to practice in!!! Keep us updated as to how it goes!
    Jeff Collier

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    A few more images added to the blog...

    http://heijoshin.wordpress.com
    Scott Halls
    Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu Kenjutsu - Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iai
    兵法二天一流剣術 - 無双直伝英信流居合

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    Nice images!

    a) I love the design of the place
    b) It's off the M6 toll road which is my favourite motorway

    What more is there?
    Andy Watson

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    Congratulations, Scott! Looks like a great training space!
    Jose "Jay" Mijares
    Nakamura Ryu Batto-Do -- Kenshinkan Dojo (San Francisco Bay Area)

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    A writeup about the dojo opening plus pics of the demonstrations are now on our blog:

    http://heijoshin.wordpress.com/

    Thank you to all who attended the opening night, and thanks to all the well-wishes over the past few months! Enjoy the pics!
    Scott Halls
    Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu Kenjutsu - Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iai
    兵法二天一流剣術 - 無双直伝英信流居合

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    Hey Scott,
    Congrads again and looks like it was a wonderful opening night! Glad that there was so much support and that so many different wonderful styles, teachers, and students could come togther for this event! Wish I could have been there!! Now you guys just need to get cracken on Dojo number 2
    Have fun and let us know how the dojo works.
    Jeff Collier

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    Thanks, fella.

    While it really was an amazing thing to do, I will never never never go through that again.
    Scott Halls
    Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu Kenjutsu - Muso Jikiden Eishin Ryu Iai
    兵法二天一流剣術 - 無双直伝英信流居合

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