Day 12 – Last training with Soke

We woke up very late and ate a pasta and a pizza as breakfast. By the time we were finished it was already shimering. We took the train to Ayase and went by the budoshop to buy some belts and to have them embroidered with our names. I’m not very satisfied with the result on my belt, but it’s the best they could do for a reasonable price. We were the firsts to enter the shop before the rest came in fifteen minutes later,…to embroider their belts. Lucky us, because it takes about 20 minutes per belt.

When we walked towards Ayase, we noticed some stray cats sitting in the evening light on a raised plateau, we have some footage of it, check it out. We went in and prepared for training.
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As said, a lot of your experience in Japan, depends on whom you train with. Every time you go to Japan, you meet old friends, and make new ones. Two days ago, when we went to Coco’s dinner, we met some intresting people and we had a nice chat. One of them was Ricardo, from Spain. Today I saw Ricardo again, so we trained together.

This was a nice experience, it’s always a joy to train with people who know how they aproximately would react in a real fight. So I got a lot of good training again.

Diana trained with Shiraishi Sensei for a while, until Dino would be there, he came in a while later so she changed partner and trained with Nadine, Dino’s girlfriend.

Darren had chosen ten people on Soke’s command to show the technique which we were practicing. Ricardo and me got to show our’s. It’s always an honor to perform in front of Soke. I can really feel that I am hyperfocused and then again also super-relaxed.

Trainings come to an end, sometimes too soon. The ones with Soke end always too soon. As he closed the class, he spoke his grace towards us, who made the bujinkan grow and encouraged us to keep on training and to continue on the same path.

After class we politely asked for a last picture. This was actually our only chance to say goodbye to him. It’s probably going to be a while before we see him again. But we got a whole lot of transmissions from him and those will last our whole lives.