Snowing...
I have been pretty much under the snow recently...
The deadline for submitting two of my home assignments is mercilessly approaching - it is December 5. And I am ready only with one so far - with the religious art history one. I still have to compile the other one about the Kosher rules of Jewish traditions and collecting the raw material is the hardest part of the whole thing because of the lack of time. Anyway, this or that way, but I will make it.
It turned out that my exams at the end of the semester will be exactly on the weekend when Sheila will hold a seminar at Thomas' dojo in Sweden. And which I was going to attend. No problem. I am going to attend it for sure. I talked to some of my profs and they agreed that I take the exams earlier so that I can go to the seminar.
Probably Csabi comes with me - btw, he returned to BBT, it seems :-) He had quit training more than 10 years ago but now he wants to do it again - purely for the recreational side of it. He tried to return to the MA world via aikido and later on wia taichi, but after a certain point both these required getting involved in the spiritual side of the given art. And Csabi already has his own path - the Dharma. So he wants to practice something which helps him keeping his body fresh and healthy but without being forced into putting on another spiritual paths. We will see for how long he will be able to preserve this attitude. I mean, after a while you recognize that you get so deeply involved in it, head over heels, that it infiltrates your everyday life, your decisions, the way you treat others, the way you treat yourself and just the way you exist in your environment will be affected by this "Art". So I am curious :-)
Btw, my group still keeps going :-) hehe unbelievable :-) There are not so many guys in there but at least I can pay a lot more attention to each of them. Sometimes there are 6-7, sometimes 2-3, so it is quite a quiet group. There are two tall guys in the group one of whom is pretty strong, which I am glad for, because working on him is a challenge for me too. When I show them a technique I show it on each of them so that they feel how it feels, how it works, and it is good for me too, because I can polish my movements according to the different bodies.
So far they have been "introduced to" the gogyo, sabaki, kamae no kata and some omote and ura gyaku versions. I can say that they are doing pretty well (imvho).
Our only two concerns are: 1) the floor is extremely slippery as we train in a classroom where the floor is an old wooden one and no matter whether if you wear socks or shoes or jika tabi or if you are barefoot - you simply cannot move from a deep ichimonji without slipping away. I want to make sure they learn a low ichimonji as a start because they tend to forget about it during the techniques. But it is a challenge for me too on that floor, you need to hold your feet quite steady and it requires a lot of hipwork to not let your feet slip apart. Not to mention moving from it. So it is not easy.
The other prob is that we do not have tatami or such, so ukemi is a real pain in the ass for them - literally speaking.
A few weeks ago I saw a huge pile of tatami mats in one of the classrooms and managed to find out that it belogns to an aikido group who trains there every other day. I talked to their instructor to ask whether we could be allowed to use the tatami and if yes, what did he want in return. He told me to join his next training, and by that time he will find out the answer. OK. I showed up, joined them. Finally he proposed such a price (he said it was a friendly one) that I said "OK, let's return to it in January-February if I will have more people". I am simply not able to product this amount of money from the group and I do not want the guys to pay more - it would be too much for them.
So yesterday we started to study the ukemi. Boy they have been suffering like hell with their pointy hipbones and knees :-)
I try to show them some fun techniques which can lead them to catch what the proper movement during ukemi is like. One thing is sure - if they learn to roll properly here, they will be able to roll properly almost everywhere :-)
So now I am busy with writing my essays and trying to complete all of them within the deadline so I am not really able to go to Istvan's trainings this month. Probably December will be the same... :-( Shame :-(
The deadline for submitting two of my home assignments is mercilessly approaching - it is December 5. And I am ready only with one so far - with the religious art history one. I still have to compile the other one about the Kosher rules of Jewish traditions and collecting the raw material is the hardest part of the whole thing because of the lack of time. Anyway, this or that way, but I will make it.
It turned out that my exams at the end of the semester will be exactly on the weekend when Sheila will hold a seminar at Thomas' dojo in Sweden. And which I was going to attend. No problem. I am going to attend it for sure. I talked to some of my profs and they agreed that I take the exams earlier so that I can go to the seminar.
Probably Csabi comes with me - btw, he returned to BBT, it seems :-) He had quit training more than 10 years ago but now he wants to do it again - purely for the recreational side of it. He tried to return to the MA world via aikido and later on wia taichi, but after a certain point both these required getting involved in the spiritual side of the given art. And Csabi already has his own path - the Dharma. So he wants to practice something which helps him keeping his body fresh and healthy but without being forced into putting on another spiritual paths. We will see for how long he will be able to preserve this attitude. I mean, after a while you recognize that you get so deeply involved in it, head over heels, that it infiltrates your everyday life, your decisions, the way you treat others, the way you treat yourself and just the way you exist in your environment will be affected by this "Art". So I am curious :-)
Btw, my group still keeps going :-) hehe unbelievable :-) There are not so many guys in there but at least I can pay a lot more attention to each of them. Sometimes there are 6-7, sometimes 2-3, so it is quite a quiet group. There are two tall guys in the group one of whom is pretty strong, which I am glad for, because working on him is a challenge for me too. When I show them a technique I show it on each of them so that they feel how it feels, how it works, and it is good for me too, because I can polish my movements according to the different bodies.
So far they have been "introduced to" the gogyo, sabaki, kamae no kata and some omote and ura gyaku versions. I can say that they are doing pretty well (imvho).
Our only two concerns are: 1) the floor is extremely slippery as we train in a classroom where the floor is an old wooden one and no matter whether if you wear socks or shoes or jika tabi or if you are barefoot - you simply cannot move from a deep ichimonji without slipping away. I want to make sure they learn a low ichimonji as a start because they tend to forget about it during the techniques. But it is a challenge for me too on that floor, you need to hold your feet quite steady and it requires a lot of hipwork to not let your feet slip apart. Not to mention moving from it. So it is not easy.
The other prob is that we do not have tatami or such, so ukemi is a real pain in the ass for them - literally speaking.
A few weeks ago I saw a huge pile of tatami mats in one of the classrooms and managed to find out that it belogns to an aikido group who trains there every other day. I talked to their instructor to ask whether we could be allowed to use the tatami and if yes, what did he want in return. He told me to join his next training, and by that time he will find out the answer. OK. I showed up, joined them. Finally he proposed such a price (he said it was a friendly one) that I said "OK, let's return to it in January-February if I will have more people". I am simply not able to product this amount of money from the group and I do not want the guys to pay more - it would be too much for them.
So yesterday we started to study the ukemi. Boy they have been suffering like hell with their pointy hipbones and knees :-)
I try to show them some fun techniques which can lead them to catch what the proper movement during ukemi is like. One thing is sure - if they learn to roll properly here, they will be able to roll properly almost everywhere :-)
So now I am busy with writing my essays and trying to complete all of them within the deadline so I am not really able to go to Istvan's trainings this month. Probably December will be the same... :-( Shame :-(
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