Mats blog

I just came back from Istanbul where I was teaching at Yukan na kokoro III. I just don't have any luck with my flights, this time my flight was delayed for 6 hours because a few snowflakes to many at the Istanbul airport. I can't believe that over half of all the flights was cancelled just because it was snowing a little, it was 10 times worse in Stockholm but that didn't stop the traffic even the slightest.

But the seminar went great, I was treated very well by Ercan and his students (see the picture above), I'm also happy that Antonios Mitrou and his student (sorry I don't remember your name) from Greece came to the semninar. Thank you very much, I had a great time! I was doing my best trying to teach the eight techniques and their ura waza from the Shindenfudo-ryu Ten no kata together with this years feeling of acting natural according the nature around you.

Teaching a seminar like this is a part of my learning process, I can spend more hours than a regular class to go through stuff I was taught in Japan. When teaching I'm also training myself, when someone having trouble with what I just showed forces me to try and explain it in more details which makes me think what I am doing, and correct myself first so I can show the technique the best I can.

As Hatsumi Soke says quite often is something like this... "If you think it is there, it is not! If you don't think it is there, it is!", this was also a part of the theme for this seminar.