Live training or life-training?
It was kind of rude to wake up at 4 a.m. this last morning, but the goal that was ahead of me for that day made me get over the sleepiness pretty quickly. Threw in some muzli and a cappuchino and I was already off. Well the weather don't seem to get any warmer in the near future, and it's especially cold at dawn. My fingers got frozen and stuck to the metal part of the zipper on my coat, as I don't really like to wear gloves before it goes under -20˚Celsius. Surprisingly the train came sharp in time and before I noticed I was in the downtown of Budapest. The whole city was yet asleep; it was interesting to see this usually busy city being slow this time. Hardly anybody put their nose out to the streets (probably because of the cold, too).
Anyway, just 1.5 hour went by and I was at the venue where I was supposed to attend a "live training" (kind of videoconferencing) as a visitor, with N. Sensei in Japan. After a few minutes the guy who organized it here, arrived too and opened the building. At last I started getting a bit warmer. It was about time, as I already did not feel my toes from the freezing cold and my scarf was also all frosty so you can imagine how cold it was.
Slowly the other guys arrived, we changed to gi and were staring at the wall where we could see the aussie and Finnish (or Swedish? Danish?) dojos' videosigns projected. But Japan was nowhere on earth. So we decided to warm up until Japan gets connected too, we also did some basic stuff and a little balance workout. 30 minutes went by but the Japanese dojo was still nowhere.
That was the time when the organizer guy started worrying, and being involved in IT, I also started suspecting something really unpleasant. Anyway, still hoping for the best, I grabbed a guy and started delivering various attacks on him, so that we could still practice until the connection with the Japanese dojo gets fixed.
After a while we got a message form the aussie dojo saying that the Japanese were having technical difficulties and probably won't be able to get on the net. Probably their ISP was having problems. (I am wondering if it was because of the snow?)
So there we accepted the situation and agreed to ask for a DVD instead of another live training appointment.
And what surprised me was that everbody started changing back to street gears. I thought we will at least have some normal training if not this interactive one, but it seems that noone else shared this idea. So I changed clothes too, said goodbye and left with a little disappointment. I travelled through all Budapest in such a cold at a cruelly early time and there is no training at all. I am starting to think that maybe it is just me being so fanatic or radical when it comes to training. Anyway, I took this as a lesson: sometimes you make huge efforts, which just don't result on a way that you expect. Conclusion: Do not have expectations, be open for anything! :-D
Anyway I popped in my office before going home, to scan some stuff and took the train again.
The next time when I will attend a live training will probably be after I've returned from Japan. Now saving up as much money as possible is in priority.
Anyway, just 1.5 hour went by and I was at the venue where I was supposed to attend a "live training" (kind of videoconferencing) as a visitor, with N. Sensei in Japan. After a few minutes the guy who organized it here, arrived too and opened the building. At last I started getting a bit warmer. It was about time, as I already did not feel my toes from the freezing cold and my scarf was also all frosty so you can imagine how cold it was.
Slowly the other guys arrived, we changed to gi and were staring at the wall where we could see the aussie and Finnish (or Swedish? Danish?) dojos' videosigns projected. But Japan was nowhere on earth. So we decided to warm up until Japan gets connected too, we also did some basic stuff and a little balance workout. 30 minutes went by but the Japanese dojo was still nowhere.
That was the time when the organizer guy started worrying, and being involved in IT, I also started suspecting something really unpleasant. Anyway, still hoping for the best, I grabbed a guy and started delivering various attacks on him, so that we could still practice until the connection with the Japanese dojo gets fixed.
After a while we got a message form the aussie dojo saying that the Japanese were having technical difficulties and probably won't be able to get on the net. Probably their ISP was having problems. (I am wondering if it was because of the snow?)
So there we accepted the situation and agreed to ask for a DVD instead of another live training appointment.
And what surprised me was that everbody started changing back to street gears. I thought we will at least have some normal training if not this interactive one, but it seems that noone else shared this idea. So I changed clothes too, said goodbye and left with a little disappointment. I travelled through all Budapest in such a cold at a cruelly early time and there is no training at all. I am starting to think that maybe it is just me being so fanatic or radical when it comes to training. Anyway, I took this as a lesson: sometimes you make huge efforts, which just don't result on a way that you expect. Conclusion: Do not have expectations, be open for anything! :-D
Anyway I popped in my office before going home, to scan some stuff and took the train again.
The next time when I will attend a live training will probably be after I've returned from Japan. Now saving up as much money as possible is in priority.
2 comments:
Well, it was not possible to have access to the broadcasting from "outside" so I would not have been able to see it from any external spot.
It did not go through the Aussies, they were also just participants. The broadcasting was supposed to come directly from Japan, from D.'s place (the live trainings are held there), and later it turned out that the webcam was broken or what. I guess D. notified his Aussie dojo and they've let all of us know about what was going on.
I am curious when will I receive the DVD...
Tell me I was mistrustful, but so many accidental obstacles seem to keep showing up (regarding other issues - in the past, too), that it makes things somewhat questionable.
Just a test ...
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