Japan Training Scholarship

Sunday night after the tournament was the Banquet farewell party. A chance to get dressed up, give out little gifts and have a few drinks and social time with the…

Day one was just my kata and team kata divisions, I had my kumite on day 2. I was very happy about this, because I could really get my head…

Sorry i haven't posted in a while, I've been super busy.  I have had some full on adventurous days, full of touring and karate, getting ready for the tournament. I…

It was a very exciting and interesting morning session today, our last one with Soke Sensei. Part of the Canadian team joined us for this mornings session, there was a…

Friday we didn't get up to a whole lot during the day, mainly just trying to relax and recover from injuries bruises ect. Sam, Helen and I did go out…

About 25 minutes into seiza... due to finish up any second now.  It doesn’t even hurt anymore, yes uncomfortable, but not painful and no numb feet. Thank god the seiza…

Tuesday, 6:30 we headed to the park for morning training, has Sensei Martin watching via video chat, just doing some performance kata and kumite training.  Sami wasn't feeling so well,…

This weekend, we still had a training session each day, Saturday morning session was just more of a stretching and talking about that things we are learning. After that we…

Yesterday we attended a Kobodu demonstration practise rehearsal session, kihon bo 1-15.  1-8 I already know, 9-15 however was very new to me. We started learning it last Thursday in…

Its already Friday, wow!  Doesn’t feel like we’ve been here that long but it’s also feels like each day is a few days long. Not sure how that works. I…