The goal with the Swedish autumn trip (one week) to Japan was to visit the annual kobudo Kongo-Ryu seminar and to practice karate. The kobudo seminar was planned to be held Saturday 12th to Monday the 14th of October 2019, in Honbu Dojo, Yokohama Tsurumi. The other days, before and after the seminar, included a lot of karate practice.
During this trip we also experienced different weather. Mostly nice weather but the typhoon Hagibis (Philippine name), which was one of the strongest typhoons in 50 years, shut down most of Tokyo for almost 24 hours. But we were and felt very safe during the typhoon.
As always, the Itosu-Kai in Japan has the friendliness to arrange possibilities to train at different dojos in Tokyo. This time we visited the dojo in Mitaka (sensei Kitaoka) and Honbu dojo in Tsurumi.
The evening at Sensei Kitaoka dojo was intense. Besides kihon training we got the opportunity to deeply dig into different kata’s; Bassai Dai, Wankan and Nipaipo.
