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8th Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai is 8YSTT

From Shiro Kuma's Weblog by kumablog

Sven & Arnaud in Paris

Thank you for all those who registered already!

It seems this 8th YSTT is going to be succesfull and the first registration forms have arrived from:

  • France,
  • Belgium,
  • Denmark,
  • Germany,
  • United Kingdom.

Are we going to have more than 16 countries attending this year?

Important note: If you register for more than one person, please fill in ONE form per person it will facilitate our work.

Thank you.

the YSTT team


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Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai July (reminder)

From Shiro Kuma's Weblog by kumablog

Yûro Shi Tennô Arnaud

Reminder:

Organizing a Taikai such as this one is always a lot of work for the Taikai Team. Last year many of you didn’t register early enough and we had to cope with some problems concerning the food and the t-shirt.

If you know you are attending then please register as fast as possible and do not forget to tick the boxes for:

  • food type
  • t-shirt size
  • rank family
  • length of stay
  • day of arrival

    • This will help us a lot and save you a lot of money. The sooner you register the cheaper you pay!

    So please register online so that we can order the food and t-shirt accordingly.

    Thank you for your help.

    YSST team 2010


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    Yûro Shi Tennô by sensei

    From Shiro Kuma's Weblog by kumablog

    Here is the picture of the 4 calligraphies by sôke when he decided to change the name into Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai.

    Each one bears the new name and the name of the beholder. Here from left to right: Arnaud, Pedro, Sven, Peter. Painted by Hatsumi sensei in August 2009.

    I was surprised when he called me and did the four calligraphies in front of me. Good memory!


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    Why “Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai”?

    From Shiro Kuma's Weblog by kumablog

    Last August when I brought Hatsumi sensei some pictures of the Taikai in Paris decided to change its name and to call it the “Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai“. When I asked him the reason for that he said this was a pun between “Europa”  [yuropa] and the  Japanese word “Yûro”. Yûro means something like the “path to bravery”.

    So we invite you to join us in this eighth “path of bravery spreading everywhere all over Europe!”  More than 15 countries are expected to come! Come to Paris and build up your memory.

    Shi Tennô is the nickname that sensei gave us back in the nineties as the four of us were spreading the Bujinkan system all over Europe. If the original meaning is the “four emperors”, it is in fact the name given to the four Chinese spirits of the four directions: North, South, East and West. Nothing glorious there.

    But because Kano sensei, the founder of jûdô, nicknamed his four students spreading the kodôkan jûdô over the world by the name of “shi tennô“, Hatsumi sensei decided to do the same. Unfortunately this name has nothing to do with our martial skills. :)

    Taikai means big seminar and this one is definitely a big one. This is one of the last 3 day seminar that we have after the end of the Taikai directed by sensei. If my friends and I have decided to organize it in the past it was because we were missing those taikai with sensei in Europe and in the USA. Those Taikai with sensei that we have organized between 1987 and 2002 were always a fantastic moment of friendship and budô. This Yûro Shi Tennô Taikai is following the same tracks and this is why, each year, we have more and more success.

    Over the last five years, the success of this event has been increasing so much that we had to limit the number of participants. For those of you training in the Bujinkan and who didn’t get the chance to train in Japan this year, this Taikai is your chance as each one of the instructor in this seminar has been staying in Japan one, twice or three times since last November.

    As sensei was saying at the honbu recently: “only those who  train regularly in Japan with me have a chance to get what I am showing”. This is your chance to get your update.

    See you there with a smile on your face.

    Online prebooking


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    Japan seminar April in Paris

    From Shiro Kuma's Weblog by kumablog

    Flexibility is in the body and in the mind

    Tachi Kumiuchi

    and Rokkon shôjô seminar in Paris

    April 23rd – 25th

    As always after all my trips to Japan, I give a seminar in Paris with the students who came with me to Noda to share the latest insights collected in Japan.

    If you are interested come to Paris Fri 23-Sat 24-Sun 25 of April 2010.

    Fri 20h-22h30

    Sat 10h-17h30

    Sun 10h-17h30

    Lunches are included, free sleeping at the dôjô.

    Information and online pre-booking available at www.budomart.com

    Arnaud Cousergue

    Bujinkan Shihan Jûgodan, Menkyo Kaiden Tachi Waza


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