One of those moments...

I really can't summarize the spirit of this event in just a few sentences.
As always - just when my body got used to amount of classes and I can focus more on presented techniques, less on mere surviving this thing, there is onlt two days of seminar left ;-(

I think this is very good seminar. Very many advanced students, not a lot of injuries, lot of sincere effort...

Let me just tell you that I notified Chiba sensei of our activities in Nairobi and we got his blessing.

Warm greetings from Poland

Fridays class

After we got spoilt with this two hour class on Wednesdays and sometimes 2.5 hours on Saturdays - one hour class on Friday seems so short. Still we managed to go through ai-hanmi ikkyo omote, then shomen-uchi ikkyo omote and then this funny technique somewhere between ikkyo and shiho-nage.

Tuesday class

Today we extensively focused on mae and ushiro ukemi. Tried my trick of teaching ukemi with big balls ;-)
Then we moved to kaiten-nage, both uchi and soto.
Then we tried kokyu-nage.
And then, at the end of the class we explored Shohato - the first form of Shoden of Muso Shinden Ryu.

Wednesday public holiday

As we have public holiday this coming Wednesday I am sorry to inform you we will not have class.
Tuesday class will take place without changes - at Aga Khan Sports Club at 1930 hours.

Saturday class - continued

This Saturday we dwelled a bit on mae-ukemi, I continued to exercise my idea of teaching mae-ukemi with these big balls ;-) I think it was fun.

Then we did ushiro-ryote-dori shiho-nage, ushiro-ryote-dori kote-gaeshi, ushiro-ryote-dori sankyo, also tried ushiro-ryote-dori kokyu-ho.

Then we went back to basics of shiho-nage, tried to polish a bit tai-no tenkan-ho. We finished the day with gyaku-hanmi reversed kote-gaeshi.

Quite a lot of techniques, quite demanding class.

Saturday class

Today we will have 2 hour 30 minutes class at Aga Khan Sports Club. It starts at 1730. Costs of the venue should not exceed 200 KSh per participant. Welcome

Wednesday class - July 28th

Yesterday we revisited several omote techniques. First was ai-hanmi ikkyo omote, then gyaku-hanmi ikkyo omote. Then we moved to ai-hanmi nikkyo omote, then gyaku-hanmi nikkyo omote. Then - as the order of things dictates - ai-hanmi sankyo omote. Instead of gyaku-hanmi sankyo omote we did ai-hanmi uchikaiten sankyo omote. Then shortly yokomen-uchi shiho-nage, both omote and ura versions. It was a real surprise how quickly two-hour class was over ;-)

Tuesday class

On Tuesday we took advantage of the venue facilities - we piled up some yoga mats and tried to more dynamic techniques.
First we focused on mae-ukemi, up to the point of rolling with big rubber balls ;-0
Then we practiced tenchi-nage and kote-gaeshi.

Short notice - Tuesday class

I would like to inform all of you that tomorrow we will have a class at Aga Khan Sports Club from 1930 till 2100.
The cost to cover the venue should not exceed 200 KSh.
Please feel welcome ;-)

Friday, July 23rd

Today we did ai-hanmi kote-gaeshi and ai-hanmi uchikaiten sankyo omote.