B-day - Buddha - Boojie
This Saturday was busy, hot and awsome.
I woke up at 5.30 am to catch an early train to Budapest. It was a cruelly early time, especially as I went to bed at 2.00 am the previous night, because I've been searching for the string of my bow for hours, as I was suposed to (among others) supervise some archery on Saturday.
Anyway, I quickly threw in a cup of chocolate milk and was off for the train. 20 minutes train - 15 minutes waiting for the tram - 5 minutes tram ride and I was at the Bus Station to meet Bobby (our intern) who also wanted to come to the Dalai Lama's birthday celbration to the Buddhist Centre at Tar.
We bought the tickets, had a coffee, hopped on the bus and left Budapest. We arrived to Tar around 9.40 am, which was just in time as the event officially started at 10.00 am.
As soon as I arrived the secretary of the Community grabbed me and put some papers in my hands, indicating that I was supposed to give a speach and host the event. Although it's always been like this in the past years, this time I was pretty much surprised as I told them weeks ago that this year I'd prefer to avoid giving any speaches. Anyhow, it seems tho that representative tasks will always be left on me :-))
After the speach there was a one-hour-long ceremony with instruments, which was cool. The only one unpleasant factor was that it was terribly hot and the sun was very strong (the event took place outside, ont he top of a nice hill). After the ceremony was over, it was party-time.
Indian Bharata-Natyam dancers gave a little demo, which was very nice. In the same time at some other places professional masseurs volunteered to give different kinds of massage to those who asked for it (for free). There was thai-, music-, foot-massage, and also shiatsu.
Luckilly some other archers arrived meanwhile and they took care of teaching those who were interested in archery, so I could meet the martial arts guys and discuss the order of their demos. It was a great surprise to hear that some Boojie guys from another city came as well - I have no idea whom they discussed it with, as *I* was supposed to organize the "warriors" for this day and by my latest information they could not accept our invitation. It seems that they changed t=something in the Matrix :)) Although I did not know them, but since I had my gi with me and I felt it would have been a shame not to use this coincidence, I offered my body to them :) only as an uke for their demo of course :)) So I got paired up with their leader, a shodan.
Instead of having lunch we quickly went through the choreography, which was not a big thing, just some warming up and discussing who will do what, but nothing spectacular. When I first did the Gogyo no kata on one of the guys, they asked me if I was a student of Dean :))))) hehe, I took it as a compliment :))))
After then we went down to the bottom of the hill as the crowd was already waiting for us. It was quite hot in the black gear but despite the heat (35 Celsius) at least it was much more comfortable than wearing civil clothing. We started up with two children doing some ukemi, and after then we adults did some more advanced stuff. I had to do the Goho no kata and some play with hanbo. The guy I was paired up with did all sorts of defenses against various knife attack, and also applied some hanbo techniques. It was a big success as by the feedbacks I got later during the day. Both lama's watched it as they never seen this "violent" side of mine, and as far as I noticed my lama kind of liked it. Not that I was violent, but he also has some of this "warrior" aspect in his personality, or at least he can understand the concept of warriorship. When we finished with the demo he told me "They killed you so many times with that knife that I was about complaining and telling your opponent not to kill our girl-friend!"
So I enjoyed "working" with these Boojies, they were cool. Although they belong to another Shihan, still there was something between them and me - a feeling of belonging to the same family. Cool stuff.
There were also some Iaido guys, but I don't know - somehow they were not so convincing to me. Maybe I am too much biased for our sword techniques. I did not see much of the demos of the Kyokushinkai and Wing Chun guys. After having a big bowl of fish soup I had to go to the archers and help them out, as people kept flooding to the archery field. It's good to see how Magyars are still interested in their ancient warrior art.
It was 5 pm when I got so much sunburnt and exhausted that I decided to pack up my stuff, have a cold shower and relax a bit before leaving for home.
I went up to the guesthouse, had the shower, dressed back to civil gear, packed everything and went for finding a car that could have taken us home. We easily found it but the girl who offered her help planned to leave only in the evening, so not having to work the next day, I decided to stay and wait for her. In the meantime some Tibetan refugees asked for volunteers to teach some Tibetan dance at sunset, so I decided to join them. Well it was even more difficult to learn than performing some sophisticated kata. My feet kept fouling and could never catch when to step where. I felt so stupid, but it was a big fun :)) Lama Chopel and his Tibetan master were laughing hard about us :)
Anyway, soon it became 9 pm so we left with the girl. Got home by midnight, and she had to stay for a light late dinner and a coffee so that she would not fell asleep behind the wheel on her way back home.
It was past midnight when I went to bed and was so dead tired and exhausted that I woke up only at 11.00 am on Sunday but only because the dogs were barking too loud. So it was too late to leave for Visegrad to the Medieval Games :(
Anyway, next year, hopefully...
I woke up at 5.30 am to catch an early train to Budapest. It was a cruelly early time, especially as I went to bed at 2.00 am the previous night, because I've been searching for the string of my bow for hours, as I was suposed to (among others) supervise some archery on Saturday.
Anyway, I quickly threw in a cup of chocolate milk and was off for the train. 20 minutes train - 15 minutes waiting for the tram - 5 minutes tram ride and I was at the Bus Station to meet Bobby (our intern) who also wanted to come to the Dalai Lama's birthday celbration to the Buddhist Centre at Tar.
We bought the tickets, had a coffee, hopped on the bus and left Budapest. We arrived to Tar around 9.40 am, which was just in time as the event officially started at 10.00 am.
As soon as I arrived the secretary of the Community grabbed me and put some papers in my hands, indicating that I was supposed to give a speach and host the event. Although it's always been like this in the past years, this time I was pretty much surprised as I told them weeks ago that this year I'd prefer to avoid giving any speaches. Anyhow, it seems tho that representative tasks will always be left on me :-))
After the speach there was a one-hour-long ceremony with instruments, which was cool. The only one unpleasant factor was that it was terribly hot and the sun was very strong (the event took place outside, ont he top of a nice hill). After the ceremony was over, it was party-time.
Indian Bharata-Natyam dancers gave a little demo, which was very nice. In the same time at some other places professional masseurs volunteered to give different kinds of massage to those who asked for it (for free). There was thai-, music-, foot-massage, and also shiatsu.
Luckilly some other archers arrived meanwhile and they took care of teaching those who were interested in archery, so I could meet the martial arts guys and discuss the order of their demos. It was a great surprise to hear that some Boojie guys from another city came as well - I have no idea whom they discussed it with, as *I* was supposed to organize the "warriors" for this day and by my latest information they could not accept our invitation. It seems that they changed t=something in the Matrix :)) Although I did not know them, but since I had my gi with me and I felt it would have been a shame not to use this coincidence, I offered my body to them :) only as an uke for their demo of course :)) So I got paired up with their leader, a shodan.
Instead of having lunch we quickly went through the choreography, which was not a big thing, just some warming up and discussing who will do what, but nothing spectacular. When I first did the Gogyo no kata on one of the guys, they asked me if I was a student of Dean :))))) hehe, I took it as a compliment :))))
After then we went down to the bottom of the hill as the crowd was already waiting for us. It was quite hot in the black gear but despite the heat (35 Celsius) at least it was much more comfortable than wearing civil clothing. We started up with two children doing some ukemi, and after then we adults did some more advanced stuff. I had to do the Goho no kata and some play with hanbo. The guy I was paired up with did all sorts of defenses against various knife attack, and also applied some hanbo techniques. It was a big success as by the feedbacks I got later during the day. Both lama's watched it as they never seen this "violent" side of mine, and as far as I noticed my lama kind of liked it. Not that I was violent, but he also has some of this "warrior" aspect in his personality, or at least he can understand the concept of warriorship. When we finished with the demo he told me "They killed you so many times with that knife that I was about complaining and telling your opponent not to kill our girl-friend!"
So I enjoyed "working" with these Boojies, they were cool. Although they belong to another Shihan, still there was something between them and me - a feeling of belonging to the same family. Cool stuff.
There were also some Iaido guys, but I don't know - somehow they were not so convincing to me. Maybe I am too much biased for our sword techniques. I did not see much of the demos of the Kyokushinkai and Wing Chun guys. After having a big bowl of fish soup I had to go to the archers and help them out, as people kept flooding to the archery field. It's good to see how Magyars are still interested in their ancient warrior art.
It was 5 pm when I got so much sunburnt and exhausted that I decided to pack up my stuff, have a cold shower and relax a bit before leaving for home.
I went up to the guesthouse, had the shower, dressed back to civil gear, packed everything and went for finding a car that could have taken us home. We easily found it but the girl who offered her help planned to leave only in the evening, so not having to work the next day, I decided to stay and wait for her. In the meantime some Tibetan refugees asked for volunteers to teach some Tibetan dance at sunset, so I decided to join them. Well it was even more difficult to learn than performing some sophisticated kata. My feet kept fouling and could never catch when to step where. I felt so stupid, but it was a big fun :)) Lama Chopel and his Tibetan master were laughing hard about us :)
Anyway, soon it became 9 pm so we left with the girl. Got home by midnight, and she had to stay for a light late dinner and a coffee so that she would not fell asleep behind the wheel on her way back home.
It was past midnight when I went to bed and was so dead tired and exhausted that I woke up only at 11.00 am on Sunday but only because the dogs were barking too loud. So it was too late to leave for Visegrad to the Medieval Games :(
Anyway, next year, hopefully...
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