Dojo (part 2)

Upon entering the main room dojo, a place where practitioners, practicing, practicing respect for the dojo with a little bow. As practitioners have entered restricted areas mat, he sat in seiza position, and then respectfully with bowed from a seated position. After that practitioners are still waiting for the exercise begins in the seiza sitting position. If the exercise has been completed and practitioners to leave the arena, practitioners also respect for the dojo. Other rules also apply within the dojo for pre practitioners are:

1) Footwear must not be used or placed on a gym mat; 2) If the practitioner left the practice for certain purposes, he must ask permission from the instructor; 3) All accessories such as watches, rings, bracelets, necklaces, earrings and others must be removed when practice; 4) nails cut short and neat; 5) Conversations in the dojo when the exercises are limited to one topic that is aikido; 6) If the practitioner may have difficulty or concerns about a technique, he could not walk across the mat to ask to the instructor. He was not allowed to ask for an explanation at the right moment when the instructor was nearby; 7) Avoid violence and contest power in practice; 8) Dojo is a place to practice and work with training partners, egos must be set aside; 9) Keep clothing clean equipment and tidy.