Friends, I went to the martial arts seminar! It is the second I attend. The first was «Meet your fear, accept imbalance» – Very interesting for more details you can follow the Facebook page Raiden Dojo Bucuresti -Aiikijutsu Ninjutsu Iai and Kenjutsu Kenpo Taiji Qigong -Clicca Aici. The super strong part is that anyone can participate!
Today was a «Workshop for Kobudo Beginners: long weapons«I wanted to go from the second I read the name. Long weapons! How to go?! Bo. I had no idea what it was, but I discovered it quickly. In simple terms, it is a … barrel, a boggling of 1.80 m. Goat (Wooden sword) I have already had.
This morning, I took, with pride needed, the case in which they were inspected Wooden sword (1.25 m), one Jo (a thinner stick of 1.27 m), a Bo (1.80 m), in addition to the others who are always in the stock exchange (Nunchaku, so much -Ca that is a kind of wooden knife) and I started for the training room. Beautiful day, sun, clear sky, few people on the street at 9.20. Marvelous!
I think I pedaled about 50 m until I realized that it would have been an extremely complicated road. It is for the first time that I resumed a bo … as you read above, all the other weapons have up to 1.30 m …
I decided to go on the shortest road, which is located in front of the Cotroceni palace. Strait sidewalk, Messin, who also has a bicycle lane. I chose the path because there are no trees on the edge. Among us, any touch of a twig (or as thin) on the tip of the rod, causes a great balance and balance and cycling have nothing to do together.
At one point, the bicycle lane is interrupted by a bus station, so the narrow sidewalk is halved. I had a place to pass and I even moved to the center of the station, but I wanted to bypass a pit and … whatever deviation from the right path is hard sanctioned. Po on the left in the wall of the building, little to the right in the bus station, but I passed the victorious and I was still by bike. If the gendarmes had left the security station, it would have been interesting.
I arrived on the independence of Splaiul in which a new challenge awaited me: Platan, lime, raised shrubs. Me, Nobody also swims in the trees in the capital?! Some of us have a job, we have to reach certain places, we do not have time to stay hanging among the trees! The only fortune was that I had not met people on the street in the morning and on my return all the people who came to me had the instinct for conservation and made me space. Thank God who had not yet come for those who walked on the street with the earphones and eyes on the phone!
Perhaps it would not be bad to have a seminar and how to transport a BO by bicycle through Bucharest. A course applied!
The course started with the greeting. This time it was different in the sense that I applauded. Please, it wasn’t really applauded, but since I have no other word for this, I will use it. You could also remember that in I-IV degrees, the teacher tests us if we have a musical ear, beating a rhythm of palm trees that we had to reproduce. Something like that was now. Obviously, in the end, I asked Sensei what’s with this greeting and I learned that the beat is a sound that purifies a space in which you will make dangerous exercises. It is a kind of protection, an invocation. It worked. No beginner has remained with bruises.
Remember when I was little and we were taking a stick that I kept in my hands and thought that we were Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Van Damme, Chuck Norris or all four in a place?! I even had nunchak. In this case, keep your memory, entertain on her account, but don’t try anymore. It seems that if you turn a stick with folded arms, invite only the opponent to hit the hands. So, no matter how much you think you are as a child to the stick, you were not. And another thing: do not rely on the word «the head on the left, the sword does not cut it». It seems that, however, you cut it!
I have looked for a long time the way my hands move on the stick and I can’t say I can do the same. Childhood came to me and I tend to hurt. With Jo it is, perhaps, a little easier, which is shorter, but with Bo…. I was doing what I was doing and one of the heads stopped on the foot, in my side … Fortunato I did not perform the technique with determination, so I fled without bruises. I don’t even need an opponent, I can shy on my own.
Another thing that I liked very much is that in these seminars (and that of last week and today), the beginners and the advances participated, many came from the country, but came from abroad especially for these courses. You know I’m not the most friendly man on earth, I don’t speak much with people, but the atmosphere was very pleasant. It was an extremely interesting day! Let the others come!
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