It’s been raining relentlessly over the last while here in Osaka, and there is more forecast this coming week, but today – and only for today – the weather was absolutely beautiful!!! Obviously the kendo gods smile on Eikenkai!!
Today’s session was held at my (George’s) work dojo and as such was deliberately a bit smaller than usual. Still, the makeup of the kenshi was between 2nd and 7dan representing five countries and a variety of professions. Before and after our usual 40-30-40 session (kihon/waza/jigeiko) some people practised kendo-no-kata as well as some koryu (the benefit of using my own dojo is we have no time limit).
Before keiko there was some discussion about the result of the historic U.K. referendum and what it means in general. Since the “EI” of “Eikenkai” represents the fact that I am British, and the real possibility of Scotland becoming independent of the union, we had a lively chat as to what we should name our keikokai in the future! Watch this space….
Our next session will be held at the beautiful budojo at Ishikiri-jinja on September the 11th. If you are interested, please get in touch. Cheers!
