From Shiro Kuma's Blog by kumafr
Dear friends, I just created a new website where to find my next seminars for 2016 and 2017.
This year again, I will be travelling a lot.
Tokyo (3 times), Dubai (2 times – UAE), Paris (5 times), Annecy (FR), Bangalore (3 times- IN), Berlin (GER), Gottingen (GER), Budapest (HON), Buenos Aires (ARG), Fortaleza (BR), Bogota (COL), Lugo (SP)…
This list is not complete and more dates will be added soon.
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From Shiro Kuma's Blog by kumafr
The Shi Tennô long long time ago ;-)
PARIS JULY 11, 12, & 13, 2014
The Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai of Paris is beginning in a few weeks. As for the last 10 years, Pedro, Peter, Sven, and Arnaud will share their understanding of the theme of the year decided by our Sôke in Japan: “Shingin Budô”.
This year we will have 4 training halls instead of 3 as our dôjô has been totally renewed. The system is the same with 4 groups of practitioners divided by ranks in order to meet each level of understanding.
As always, lunches (regular or veggie), t-shirts, and certificates are included in the price. You can sleep for FREE at the dôjô (precise it in the FORM) and do not forget your sleeping bag.
If you register before June 10th you get an immediate discount of 20%. It will then go down to 10%. So if you are planning to join us please don’t wait to register. The prebooking is 68€, the remaining is to be paid on arrival.
Once registered please fill in the FORM in order to help us make a beautiful event for all of you.
We are expecting around 120 practitioners from all over Europe, we are happy to welcome you in Paris for our National Day of July 14th!
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From 8þ Kabutoshimen by admin
Hello.
If you want to attend this seminar you must sign up on the website now before Sunday 13’th.
http://kaigozan.se/seminarier/
If you don’t sign up now you should read my ranting below. I will have no tolerance for people not showing me respect for organising a seminar by following my simple requests…
More than two weeks ago I wrote on Facebook and Twitter that I needed x amount of people signed up for the seminar to decide if I need to rent a bigger dojo before yesterday. I thought I’ll use this news list and extend the time to this Sunday evening.
If you are interested to attend this seminar I want to know now, you need to sign up on the web site (I don’t accept sign ups by email, Facebook etc, only from the web site form). And you need to do it before Sunday to be guaranteed a place at the seminar.
If I don’t get more than 33 people by Sunday evening I will not be able to book a bigger dojo and accept more participants.
You need to understand that I’m taking the financial risks. The instructors will get paid from my own pocket if I can’t get exactly 33 paying members. And we can’t squeeze in more people in the dojo, it wouldn’t be fair to the people that did what I asked and signed up early.
If you decide you want to attend late we might have filled up all places because I didn’t book a bigger dojo. If you’re high ranking or friend doesn’t matter you caused me problems. If you come unannounced and expect to be welcome you take things for granted. You could stand there and cry, but it doesn’t help the situation. If the seminar is in my dojo we have limited places, and there will be no special treatments.
I’ve seen this trend more and more the past 20 years. The first seminars I organised we had ~50 people signed up three months ahead, ~10 more signed up late. Now it is the opposite which makes it difficult to plan things, and we need to change this trend back.
I know there are those who can’t decide until last week, it is the same for me sometimes. But if it is a seminar I really want to go to, I sign up immediately and make sure I can attend. The art of planning and commitment seems to be disappearing.
Sometimes I can’t decide until the last week, then I’ll check to see if I would be welcome. If not I wouldn’t blame the organisers or cry about it.
Alright sorry for ranting but I don’t think everybody understand or take things for granted. If I get enough people that it would pay the extra rent for a bigger dojo I have no problems, this time.
If I rent a bigger dojo we can accept up to ~70 people. I kinda promised free beer if there is more than 50 people.
Again please sign up now!
http://kaigozan.se/seminarier/
Happy trainings!
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We had a 1-day seminar in Bonn last Saturday and we studied the “nagare” or how to put flow into the 1, 2, 3 techniques. It was fun and demanding but I really appreciated this day of training. Firstly because students came not only from Germany, but also from Belgium, Spain*, and India**.
So even though the theme of the year is about “Shingin Budô”, I lived that day as Shining Budô, with the good feeling with which we trained during the 6-hour training day.
Thank you all to have joined us! And I hope to see you again for our next seminar at the Kurage Dôjô in Munich on March 15th-16th***
(a special thank you goes also to the “viking” who suffered (see picture) more than any other participant)
*Ralf is a student of Juan Manuel Serrano but lives near Strasbourg.
** Arjun is a student of Shiva but lives in Berlin for a few months.
***kurage seminar
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From Shiro Kuma's Weblog by kumafr
For the last 10 or more years (I don’t remember exactly) the Bujinkan France is inviting Sveneric Bogsater to the first seminar of the year.
I hope that you will join us this year!
AJC
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