{"id":2448,"date":"2010-09-09T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T01:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/?p=2448"},"modified":"2023-08-01T08:12:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T13:12:32","slug":"a-dojo-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/a-dojo-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dojo Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1992<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">School founded. Sand Drift Aikikai, United States Aikido Federation. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Curtis Rosiek, first chief instructor.<\/strong> Student of Tom &#8220;Doc&#8221; Walker Sensei.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Training at Mark Spivak&#8217;s Institute and Dance Extension.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1994<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Curtis Rosiek relocates, after completing work on the Acosta Bridge.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Chris Rozett, second chief instructor.<\/strong> Student at Aikido Center of Atlanta.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, October 1994, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Chris Rozett awarded shodan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1995<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Buck Pittman joins school.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">School renamed, Aikido Center of Jacksonville. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1996<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt joins school.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, March 1996, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, July 1996, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1997<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, September 1997, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Chris Rozett awarded nidan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1998<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Mike Sands and Jennifer Sands join school.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Chris Rozett relocates to Singapore.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Mike Sands, third chief instructor.<\/strong> <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt, dojo-cho.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, May 1998, Jason Wilhide Sensei.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Brett Jackson joins school. Student of George Chang Sensei.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">School relocated, Jewish Community Alliance.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>1999<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Brett Jackson relocates to California. Joins Aikido of San Leandro.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2000<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">New Year&#8217;s cleansing classes begin.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2001<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">School relocated, University of North Florida.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong>Dee Seabolt, fourth chief instructor.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, July 2001, Grady Lane Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jerry Akel joins school.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2002<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, April 2002,&nbsp;Nobu Arakawa Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, November 2002, Penny Bernath Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt awarded shodan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2003<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, April 2003, Nobu Arakawa Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">John Miller joins school.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2004<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, January 2004,&nbsp;Richard Wagener&nbsp;Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, December 2004, Grady Lane Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2005<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, February 2005, Donovan Waite Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, October 2005, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Joel Miller joins school.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, April 2006, Grady Lane Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, October 2006, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt awarded nidan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt awarded fukushidoin license.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, April 2007, Grady Lane Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, April 2007, Ed Di Marco Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tonya&#8217;s Training Diary publishes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, October 2007, Luis Sabater Sensei.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Joel Miller awarded shodan. Returns to Austin Aikikai.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2008<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dojo Newsletter publishes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Camping Trip, March 2008, Huguenot Memorial Park.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">School relocated, Dupont Dojo.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">John Miller awarded nidan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Buck Pittman awarded shodan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jerry Akel awarded shodan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Children&#8217;s classes begin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, January 2009, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Camping Trip, March 2009, Gold Head Branch State Park.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, July 2009, Grady Lane Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Learning To Be Silent publishes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, September 2009, Friendship Seminar.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt awarded sandan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Camping Trip, April 2010, Gold Head Branch State Park.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Nafudakake installed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, June 2010, Richard Wagener Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tonya Machado awarded shodan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">John Miller relocates to New Mexico.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Camping Trip, March 2011, Fort Clinch State Park.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, May 2011, Summer Seminar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, September 2011, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Camping Trip, March 2012, Anastasia State Park.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, May 2012, Friendship Seminar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Twentieth Anniversary Seminar, October 2012, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jennifer Henis awarded shodan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt awarded yondan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jerry Akel awarded nidan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tonya Machado awarded nidan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, May 2014, Grady Lane Shidoin and Luis Cataldi Fukushidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, October 2014, Peter Bernath Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Buck Pittman awarded nidan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jennifer Henis awarded nidan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2015<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt awarded shidoin license.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jerry Akel awarded fukushidoin license.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, May 2015, Friendship Seminar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, October 2015, Grady Lane Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Tatami mats installed and kamiza rededicated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jerry Akel awarded sandan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Kevin Johnston awarded shodan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Harry McCormick joins school.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, May 2018, Grady Lane Shihan and Youssef Sadkane Shidoin.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Ramon Ruilopez joins school.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Seminar, October 2018, Grady Lane Shihan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">James Murray joins school.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Buck Pittman awarded sandan.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Dee Seabolt awarded godan.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Ramon Ruilopez awarded godan.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Jerry Akel awarded yondan.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>2023<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Harry McCormick passes away.<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1992 School founded. Sand Drift Aikikai, United States Aikido Federation. Curtis Rosiek, first chief instructor. Student of Tom &#8220;Doc&#8221; Walker Sensei. Training at Mark Spivak&#8217;s Institute and Dance Extension. 1994 Curtis Rosiek relocates, after completing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dojo","category-jerry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448"}],"version-history":[{"count":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7917,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448\/revisions\/7917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}