It is some time that I do not post on Kendo Travel Diary, mainly because, for family reasons, I am traveling a bit less. However, in October I was visiting Jeff Humm sensei at Hizen dojo. As usual the practice was mentally and technically challenging and it gave me a lot of things to digest and integrate in my kendo. Specifically, I found very interesting the concept of clean up kendo keiko from non-essential elements and focus on efficacy of the techniques. I have to be used to the fact that I have to place few strikes but perfect, so-so strikes are not anymore enough.
Then, I visited Yung Park sensei at Kenyukay dojo. I was very happy to meet Pasha Volodarsky, the Chief of Israel Kendo and of Aikijitsu Israel. Pasha is very friendly and clearly he is a strong competitor. I was amazed by the strenght and speed of his strikes. We had a very interesting jigeiko, extremely challenging for me 😊. The jigeiko with Yung was as also very challenging, he has a strong kamae and creating the opportunity to strike is very very difficult. Since, Yung had Pasha and me as guests, he decided to have one hour of mawarigeiko... It was very nice, but exausting 😀. In the remaining half an hour, Pasha supervised a brief practice for the Young's students. It was very interesting to see him running the practice.
As usual the two nights in London were extremely interesting and I got a lot of fun!
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