ENG: The training year 2022 has ended on December 15th. To be precise it ended on December 6th with our last real training. 2022 was a very emotional year for me. Healthwise I had some really tenacious injuries and on the emotional side I lost my mother who lost her
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ENG: This is *not* a tutorial channel, this is *not* a simulation of a real fight, this is *not* the correct version. Why do I have to say this? So that there is no wrong impression and to clarify to some comments about the techniques not working „on the street“.
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ENG: 2018 Noda, Japan. I was about to enter my first training session and was puzzled. I was happy to at least meet one person I knew and who trained with me (eternal gratitude: Florian Nikl). During the break in Nagato Sensei’s class I got to know Stefan Jährling who
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ENG: I was thinking of writing a long blog, but all I feel is gratitude towards the people who recommended me. Will this change anything? I don’t know. Most of all does it matter? It is surely a personal milestone and also a new obligation to study and train more.
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ENG: After a short(er) break compared to 2021 we could have a first training of the year with people attending. Last year Hatsu Geiko I recorded the session for this dojo’s members with no one allowed to attend. The more I was happy that all (boostered) members could join yesterday’s
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ENG: We were practising/applying do gaeshi in some of our practises lately, as a „finising move“, when uke lands on his back in order to control our partner, while lying on the stomach. After that the wish came up to practise something from Takagi Yoshi Ryu. As I didn’t have
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ENG:This week, we covered a combination of movements, leading to a two punch scenario with omote gyaku, a controlling juji dori and bringing uke down. Before we ended there, we broke the whole thing down to the single movements and put them together at the end. It was a great
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ENG „Yesterday there were so many things, I was never shown.Suddenly this time I found, I’m on the streets and I’m all alone“ (Guns n‘ Roses, „Yesterdays“) Luckily I was never alone, I was on my own for quite a while but always had the right people to guide and
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ENG: Finally some members who were injured and who were on vacation are back. It was a great class and we all – including me – had lots of fun. I try to savor every minute in the dojo and train with all the members with fun. One particular member,
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Yesterday we worked on Chi no Kata and moved to some other movements… some more, some less painful. Gestern haben wir die Chi no Kata und sind dann zu weiteren Übungen gewechselt… einige mehr, andere weniger schmerzhaft.
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