{"id":794,"date":"2015-01-21T11:16:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-21T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=794"},"modified":"2019-04-26T14:29:57","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:29:57","slug":"a-cut-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"A Cut Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birankai-Aikido-Fundraiser.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-795\" src=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birankai-Aikido-Fundraiser.png\" alt=\"Birankai Aikido Fundraiser\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birankai-Aikido-Fundraiser.png 624w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birankai-Aikido-Fundraiser-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Birankai-Aikido-Fundraiser-500x281.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>On January 3, 2015, members of Birankai dojo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fearlessheartaikido.com\">Fearless Heart Aikido<\/a> in New Hope, Penn., participated in \u201c1,000 Cuts for Charity Suburi-thon.\u201d Participants committed to make 1,000 suburi cuts with the bokken and to find sponsors who would pledge a contribution for each cut.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the suburi-thon, none of the students had completed more than 100 or 200 cuts; some barely knew how to hold a bokken. For most students, a thousand cuts was pretty daunting. However, they rose to the challenge, practicing their cuts and building their endurance in the weeks leading up to the event.<\/p>\n<p>Fearless Heart Aikido Chief Instructors Helen Tai and John McDevitt organized the fundraiser to celebrate the dojo\u2019s two-year anniversary. The celebration provided an opportunity for the students to push themselves beyond their perceived limits, to improve their cutting technique, to work together toward a common goal, to have some fun, and to raise money for two very worthwhile charities.<\/p>\n<p>Benefiting from the event are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fishermansmark.org\/\">Fisherman\u2019s Mark<\/a>, a non-profit organization in nearby Lambertville, N.J., that offers assistance to low-income individuals and families, and the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.birankai.org\/endowment\/endowment.php\"> Birankai North America Seminar Endowment Fund<\/a>, which supports Aikido events and scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to the members of Fearless Heart Aikido, every one of whom completed all 1,000 cuts, and thank you to their sponsors \u2013 who donated a total of $1,820.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the suburi-thon and watch a short movie at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fearlessheartaikido.com\">Fearless Heart Aikido website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Helen Tai, Fearless Heart Aikido<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 3, 2015, members of Birankai dojo Fearless Heart Aikido in New Hope, Penn., participated in \u201c1,000 Cuts for Charity Suburi-thon.\u201d Participants committed to make 1,000 suburi cuts with the bokken and to find sponsors who would pledge a contribution for each cut. Prior to the suburi-thon, none of the students had completed more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/?p=794\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Cut Above&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chiba-sensei","category-fundraising"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2RSKg-cO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":796,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biran.birankai.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}