Back to Grass Roots...

The first Senshido school opened its doors in Montreal, Quebec on April 11th 1994. Literally, hundreds of thousands of lives both at that little school in Montreal and worldwide have been saved, improved on and changed for the better in countless ways. 

In 2006, the Senshido school was sold to 3 of my team then as the international demand exponentially grew and with the departure of some of my closest team at the time, a decision had to be made whether to sell the school and travel the world or keep the school and cease travelling.  I chose to travel instead with no regrets, contrarily, it was the best decision I ever made as it propelled Senshido internationally and secured ourselves as not only one of the top 5 in the world at what we do but I also made it in Black Belt's top 20 toughest street fighters in the world as well as contributed to most of what was then, the top martial arts magazines in the world.  

Anyways, the guys changed Senshido the school into Leriken, a fitness studio which provided Senshido classes by some of the original Montreal crew and finally shut its doors in December of 2011.

On September 1st, 2012, Senshido International’s Martial Combative Fitness School (“Mc’Fits” lolol) is officially Re-opening it's doors again at the old gym in the Jasper Activity center in Jasper, Alberta Canada.

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Presently at the Jasper Inn/Best Western and as stated above, soon to be at the Jasper Activity Center, Senshido is offering weekly group classes in Mixed Martial Arts, Kickboxing, Functional Strength Training, Martial Fitness, Nutrition, Self Protection, Personal Defense and Hand to Hand Combat for Everyone.

Also available: Private and or corporate consultations on personal protection, personal safety, self defense, confrontation management, threat assessment, family safety, domestic abuse, rape and sexual assault prevention.

Personal/Private training and instruction. (We are also available to come to your home)

Self Defense Parties for women, businesses, organizations, schools etc. also available, gather 8 to 10 of your friends/co-workers in the comfort of your own home/office or boardroom for a 4 hour self defense party, make it a lunch, pot luck or have a BBQ while learning life saving information in a fun and relaxing environment.

International, corporate, personal, private and customized workshops and seminars also available, please inquire for your group or party.


We will keep you updated on further developments!

If you live in or around Jasper, please share this with your friends and family! Thank you!


Sincerely,
Rich

Nobody's Hero...

Thought I would make this public rather than just disappearing and answering the same private questions over and over again for the next few years; so here goes.

I came across a quote by a heavily white bearded brother named Walt Whitman a long while ago and it said “Re-examine all that you have been told and dismiss what insults your soul.” And so I did just that, dug pretty deep, came to the personal realization that I’ve been doing the equivalent of farting in the peak and center of a sandstorm and decided to retire indefinitely from the international scene and hand it over entirely to my team and my friend and brother, Chris Roberts of Safe International.

I am retiring indefinitely to be with my family and to be a full time and active father in my son’s life. I ain’t no John Lennon , right Chris? ;`) I say indefinitely and/or until further notice because one never really knows what life brings and I may eventually return to teaching full time at some point in my life; but as things presently stand, I’m done.   I had actually struggled for several years with this decision and there were times, recently included where I came so very close to quitting teaching commercially and/or for a living for good.

 

And so after years of serious consideration and the arrival of my son making this decision much, much easier; I am handing over Senshido International to my team. I will no longer be travelling internationally to teach. I will still be teaching Senshido, but only locally in Jasper Alberta and anyone wishing to train with me personally can still do so by travelling to Jasper, Alberta Canada with bookings made in advance.  More info here: http://senshidointernational.blogspot.ca/2011/01/jasper-alberta-senshido-international.html For any and all Senshido International seminars/workshops etc. from this point on please refer to the Senshido International Team members closest to you.

I will no longer be publicly writing or posting on Facebook other than to occasionally remain in contact with friends and family and the like. I will no longer be writing for our (or any other) blog other than to advertise potential upcoming workshops and/or camps I may be holding in Jasper Alberta.  All future articles, if any, will be made by the Senshido International Team members.

The Senshido International Team will also no longer grow or expand from this point on as I am no longer accepting new international team members/affiliates and my present team cannot certify anyone in Senshido International. All Senshido certifications are done through me personally.

The remaining Senshido International Team members are the last of the Mohicans so to speak. They are presently the only directly certified by me Senshido International Team members and Instructors fully authorized to teach Senshido as they see fit. Other than the select few members who have expressed interest and have already been conditionally accepted and haven’t yet fully joined the team and are in the present process of doing so will be added to the team, the Senshido International Team will cease to accept new members and applications as of now.

I will no longer be writing articles or doing interviews for any blogs or magazines or the like either. For the future of Senshido International, articles, interviews, anything Senshido related, please go to the Senshido international Team members.

I will no longer be selling nor producing or releasing any instructional materials (other than for and to my local students). Other than the now remaining 26 or so original Senshido DVDs and books written, taught, produced and released by myself and the first generation Senshido Team members in Montreal Canada from 1998 to 2006, I will no longer be releasing, producing or selling any instructional materials of any kind.  Any and all future Senshido International instructional materials will be produced, released and sold via and by my present team if they so choose to do so of course.

For any of the original Senshido International instructional materials (DVDs/manuals/books) please contact Shane Roberts and Christopher Roberts of Safe International for purchase as Safe is now the main international provider of original Senshido International instructional products.

So thank you everyone for the great times, the life lessons, the laughs, the cries and the phenomenal experiences and memories, feel free to keep doing some shit or not, up to you really. :`)

WORD!

Sincerely,
Richard Dimitri 

Until Further Notice

Until further notice, Senshido International will no longer be accepting or grooming new International Team members.

  

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Richard Dimitri

Brilliant....Beautiful.

Take the time to watch, listen and if it resonates with you at all, please take the time to share it.

Nutritious Food for Thoughts

Living or just Alive?

You're born and you know for a fact you are going to die.... What are YOU doing in between?

Capitalism at its finest

Capitalism at its finest:

1. Bank of America took $336 billion in bailouts in 2009, but in 2010, flush with $4.4 billion in profits, it paid no taxes. Even Forbes magazine asked, how is that possible? Probably thanks to their 115 offshore tax havens.

2. Boeing just received $35 billion from our government to build 179 airborne tankers, but despite nearly $10 billion in profits from 2008 to 2010, it too paid no taxes, again thanks to foreign tax havens.

3. Citicorp took $476 billion from the bailout and then made monster profits in 2010, yet it paid no taxes, thanks to 427 subsidiaries in tax havens like the Cayman Islands and Hong Kong.

4. Exxon/Mobil, received huge oil subsidies from the government and earned $45 billion in 2009 but paid no taxes, again thanks to stashing profits in places like the Bahamas and Singapore.

5. Google utilizes a technique that moves most of its income through Ireland and Netherlands to Bermuda, making its tax rate 2.3 percent. 

6. Mega Pharmaceuticals Merck earned $9 billion in profits and paid no taxes in 2010, while Pfizer (largest drug maker) owed $10 billion in taxes but found the necessary loopholes to pay no taxes, thanks to its offshore subsidiaries in places like Luxembourg and the Isle of Jersey. 

7. News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s media monolith that owns Fox News avoids paying American taxes through its 152 subsidiaries in tax havens from the British Virgin Islands to Hong Kong.

8. Verizon, despite making $24.2 billion in pre-tax US income, paid no taxes and actually claimed a federal refund of $1.3 billion for the last two years, again all thanks to those offshore subsidiaries. 

9. Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank in the US, which took $107 billion in bailouts, wrote off all its losses by acquiring Wachovia, thus paying no taxes. Yet its CEO earned $5.6 million in cash for his salary and $13 million in stock.

A Potential Alternative providing Humanity can get its head out of its ass. Humanity needs to redefine it's meaning for the word "reward" I believe.... I like the premise of the following clip and even as it stands, I believe it to be a much better and more evolved option that the garbage we've created and managed to sustain much to 80% of the world's population's poverty and famine....

How about no excuses for war, economic based crimes, and communal collective evolution of our species as reward for starters? How about the certainty that every human being on earth has access to clean food, water, air, shelter, love and freedom of movement? Those are pretty motivational and rewarding to me.... 

Humanity has to first evolve itself passed its own ego to be able to even conceive a notion of a higher-self functioning society.... 

Banned From Facebook! lolol....

Today, May 26th 2012, the Senshido International Blog has been officially 'banned' from Facebook for being "Unsafe" and "Abusive".

ROTFLMFAO.... Fuck em.

Religion: Continuously Retarding Humanity for Millenniums

Are grains necessary?

Minus the corn. ;`)

The simple answer is No. They are not. There are essential amino acids, essential fats and essential proteins but there is no such thing as an essential carbohydrate. The following article is an excellent and highly informative one on the consumption or lack there of; of grains in all forms.

Is Going Grain Free Healthy?