Soon the video will also be on YouTube and on Vimeo.com, and it will be possible to embed it on other websites. There will also be versions you can download to your iPhone or other mobile devices.
On behalf of the SOA Board of Directors, I would like to thank the SOA members who provided valuable feedback that was essential in making this final version. This truly was a community effort.
During the feedback sessions at the Pacific Shintaido Kangeiko and Shintaido Northeast Kangeiko, many of you offered excellent suggestions about how to share this video with the world. Now we can start putting those suggestions into action together. If you have specific ideas, we hope you’ll step forward and help make them happen.
We are in the process of registering this video with Wiki Commons as open source media, free for anyone to show, duplicate, share, embed on websites, etc. (as long as they aren’t making money from it).
If you have access to other websites where it would be appropriate to link to it or embed it, please feel free to do so.
Please contact me if you have ideas for where this video might be shown. Perhaps it could be entered in film festivals, or distributed to other communities you might be a part of. Any creative ideas for expanding the viewing of this video are welcome.
Many thanks to David Franklin, who edited the video. Also thanks to Rob Kedoin and Bill Burtis, who provided subcommittee guidance during and after the filming, and to videographer Carlyn Saltman, and to the many people who appeared in the film, including Shin Aoki, Joe Zawielski, Gianni Rossi, Bela Breslau, Anne-Marie Grandtner, Deb Zawielski, Margaret Guay, and others.
Best to all,
Stephen Billias
for Shintaido of America
sbillias@comcast.net
UPDATE 8/24/2009: The video is now available online at Vimeo!
On January 18, 2009, exams were offered at Pacific Shintaido’s Kangeiko. Examiners were Ito Sensei, Jim Sterling Sensei and Shin Aoki Sensei.
Shintaido examinations provide an opportunity for assessment of our practice by several very senior instructors. Exams are rigorous and challenging, and it is quite common for a practitioner to repeat the same exam several times before advancing to the next level.
We celebrate the commitment and courage of all examinees, who spend long hours in preparation and then demonstrate their form in front of the examiners and the audience. KARATE
After numerous years of service to the Shintaido of America Board, Sandra Bengtsson stepped down as Treasurer in December, 2007. Sandra has been kind enough to continue as interim Treasurer while we try to find her replacement.
If you, or anyone you know, would be interested in the volunteer job as described below, please contact Robert Kedoin at robert@kedoin.com.
Shintaido of America Treasurer
Job Description
Accounts Payable
Invoices (insurance, web hosting, web shopping cart)
Expense reimbursements
Examiner fees
Bi annual pension payments
Accounts Receivable
Checks received
dues paid
publications purchased by check
Publications on website
Reconcile items purchased on website to monthly bank statement
Kangeiko fees paid on Website
Track Kangeiko payments made through website, and reconcile amount due with gasshuku manager, and pay PacShin their portion of fees received
Bank Reconciliation
Do a monthly reconciliation of bank statement, which includes website activity
1099’s
Issue 1099’s to Michael & Ito for pension payments (Financial Officer can assist with this)
Publications Sales Tax
By July 15th, Provide Financial Officer with publications purchased from July 1 of previous year to June 30 of current year, broken out by in and outside California purchases.
Financial Statements
Provide to Board Members at least twice annually, usually before Board Meetings
Create Budget
Create Budget based on previous years activity and expected changes discussed in Board Meetings.
Maintain financial records
Important Skills: Knowledge of Quickbooks and Excel
We are pleased to announce that we now have Ito Sensei’s new DVD for sale in the bookstore!
The new DVD entitled, “H.F. Ito Presents Body Movements of Self-Expression: Shintaido” covers Tenshingoso, Eiko, Hikari, Wakame, In-yo-ittai-ken, Toitsukihon-kumite, Kyu-ka-jo, Shinkendo, Jissen-Kumitachi, Taimyo and includes an interview with Ito Sensei.
