Talk:Shudokan Aikido

Link to notes
Following from my last post here is the notes I made and hope to reference (I am unsure the best way to do this but hope to link to the publication as a book/journal and myself as the author) http://issuu.com/bensheard/docs/joe_thambu_notes As in the description the scrawl at the end is Thambu Sensei's and confirms teh documents authenticity. TheKleener (talk) 19:59, 1 July 2012 (UTC)

Copy Edit and Inconsistencies
I tried editing the article to be more in line with Wikipedia guidelines in general and Martial arts in particular. I removed extensive over-wikification, heavy use of titles, and repetitive redundancies. I still feel that a lot of what is written is already covered in the articles that are being linked to.

The name of the art in this article is given by Shioda whereas in the Thamby Rajah article the name is given by Mifune - which one is it.

The year of founding is given as 1952 but further down in the article he only got his Shodan in Aikido in the late 50s after his second visit. Worse yet the timing given in the article on Thamby Rajah gives a very different timeline.

These two articles, along with the Joe Thambu need to be consistent. Peter Rehse (talk) 10:19, 13 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I spoke to Joe Thambu today, unfortunately if I had of read your message earlier I could of also of asked him about the other pages as he was very keen on helping with the Shudokan page. Thank-you for your help, this is my first (and only current) article
 * I confirmed with Thambu today that the name was given by Shioda Gozo Kancho (the correct way of puttign his name). Thambu himself confirms that even his uncle does not know exactly when the shudokan began other than the early fifties (in the article shoudl the be written as "the early 1950s OR the early nine fifties"?)
 * He also made clear the entire section "style" should be removed as it is correct, (as previously stated the Shudokan teaches Yoshinkan, it is not a form of Yoshinkan. he also said that it should be made clear that it was not only the first aikido dojo in Malaysia but one of the first if not the first Yoshinkan dojo outside of Japan. He also encouraged including another individual in the UK section (I unfortunately forgot his name but have contacted Thambu for clarification) who worked with Stratton on bringing the Shudokan to the UK.

TheKleener (talk) 19:44, 1 July 2012