Friday, August 01, 2008

Our Italian Friends Have Visited Us In England !






Group training at the Shinseido honbu, Sevenoaks, England.







I am pleased to announce that Giuseppe Sensei, his wife and students Mari and Mauro have visited the UK, August 2008.

We arranged a series of training sessions over 4 days, Thu 14th (2 hours), Fri 15th (2 hours), Sat 15th (4 hrs) and Sun 17th (6 hrs), the sessions were split between our dojo in Uckfield (Thu, Sat) and the Shinseido Honbu in Sevenoaks (Fri, Sun).

Many aspects of the late Nishihira Sensei Seito Matsumura Shorin Ryu were covered with Giuseppe Sensei, Mauro Sensei and Mari Sensei leading the training.

The whole event was superb with an extremly high level of friendliness, skill and knowledge coming from our Italian friends.

We also visited Brighton (Fish and Chips on the pier no less) and had a group meal in Uckfield.

It is my hope that this is the first of many such exchanges of friendship and Seito Matsumura Karate.

My thanks to all those involved in making this happen, particulary to Scot (a student of mine) & Anna (his wife) and my long suffering wife Monique for all the hospitality shown.


Ciao !


Jim


1 comments:

Ikigai said...

Hello! This is my first visit to your blog. You have a very well established resource section, thank you for providing all of those links.

I noticed you have two links to Bill Hayes sessions - I just got done training with him over the weekend. That is always such an enlightening experience!