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MJER...one of the ways of the sword

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chidokan
, 20th December 2009 at 03:16 AM (1080 Views)
I hate Xmas... my dojo has to shut.... However on the bright side I now have some plans for various seminars.
First up is a trip up to 'sunny' scotland over Xmas holidays for a couple of days training, which is better than visiting in-laws any day of the week...
Next I have pinned down a date in March for my own dojo to run a days training session, which will give the senior instructors a chance to get together and organise the big seminar in September...Hopefully we will have the dates from our japanese sensei by then and we can finalise the venue and date. Anyone who has tried to organise a visit like this will appreciate some of the difficulties concerned, its not just a case of turning up and paying the fees! This year is a bit of an anniversary as it is now 15 years since Iwata sensei's first visit to the UK, so we are thinking of having something a bit more special...what however is the question!
I was asked last year to visit Venezuela by a very keen group of students, and am going again in April. Some of them have now been to Japan for training, so it will be interesting to see how they are progressing. This group struggles to get kit of any sort due to restrictive import laws there, so I am slowly putting together various bits and pieces to take over.
I have an overnight stay due to flights at Paris, so am taking the opportunity to visit one of my students and his little group. Halls are hard to get in Paris, his usual training time started at 10pm, but has now moved to 8pm...
After that we have the usual seminars scattered through the year of one every month or so...my favourite being up near Perth, where I get to take a very long weekend doing iaido, archery, and fishing for salmon... So... plenty to look forward to!

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  1. still learning's Avatar
    Tim;
    I was about to 'comment' on your blog-thingy 'A question of grip....' but the 'comments' box did not appear.
    Not being a regular 'blog viewer/contributor' means that I am at a loss as to how to proceed.

    How do I leave a comment in this situation?

    Bill Davison
  2. chidokan's Avatar
    haven't a clue! its only my second 'post', but I can see a comments box.... maybe you have to open it directly rather than going via another? I can post on other peoples so why mine wouldnt work.. maybe I have to enable something? Leave your notes here if you like, and I will cut and paste it over...but only if it is rude! hahahaha!!!
  3. still learning's Avatar
    double-posting
    Updated 5th January 2010 at 07:41 PM by still learning (double-posting)
  4. still learning's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by chidokan
    haven't a clue! its only my second 'post', but I can see a comments box.... maybe you have to open it directly rather than going via another? I can post on other peoples so why mine wouldnt work.. maybe I have to enable something? Leave your notes here if you like, and I will cut and paste it over...but only if it is rude! hahahaha!!!
    Tim;
    Again - this blog entry has a 'Leave a comment' box..... where your other blog entry does not [for me].

    Perhaps you are correct in your assumption that you must 'enable' comments....
  5. chidokan's Avatar
    just spotted one of Kim's has the same problem...I'll take a look... Sussed it... there is a tick box to do when you first set it up. Blog is open for comments/ abuse/ whatever you fancy...
    Updated 6th January 2010 at 04:27 AM by chidokan
  6. chidokan's Avatar
    its that time of year where I get the new intake of students....and as usual the need for new kit for them all is coming into play as the wannabe samurai leave and the 'sensible' people are left. The exchange rate is pretty poor though and has stuck costs up quite a lot.... so do I tell them to wait a while and get Santa to bring iaito as pressies or risk the situation getting worse??? Even hakama have gone up by a third... I guess our students for the November seminar in Japan are going to be on tight budgets. No hope for stuff from there, so looks like a scour round for some cheap(ish) gear here...