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Most of people lose their mind about the PC. And most of them – about the PC games. It’s MMORPG usually like World of Warcraft, Lineage, Perfect World et al.
We waste a lot of time during gaming. (more…)
Cold Steel Recon Tanto
It’s like a dream!
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Cosmonautics Day
The spaceship with first cosmonaut was launched in USSR. It was 50 years ago. He was the Soviet citizen and Soviet Airforce pilot, and his name was Yuri A. Gagarin.
Let me congratulate all of you with this remarkable date!
Knowledge Day
All Russian pupils and teachers celebrate Knowledge Day today. There is the Day also in former Republics of former USSR.
Traditionally this day all pupils come to schools in festive clothes with bunches of flowers to their teachers.
And so I did, when I was so young.
And it was very wonderful!
Though this day means a beginning of hardful work, as for me, it was a desired day.
I wish, it was the same for modern pupils.
To all of them – Congratulations!
August news
There were two enbu of Shosetsu Kan Dojo members this month.
First, there was the enbu on a stadium of “Tayra” factory of Novosibirsk ad honorem of Russian Day of Athlete. In the festival program there were the enbu and tournaments different groups and sports, from powerlifting to football. And, though there was a rain, Shosetsu Kan members perform the enbu on the grass of stadium remarkably! We’d like to say great thanks member of Soviet District of Novosibirsk administration Evgeniy A. Gorlanov for invitation to the festival, senior instructor of Shosetsu Kan Yuriy V. Poletaev for enbu organization, senior students of Shosetsu Kan: Yuriy Lebedev, Vyacheslav Kuzmin, Andrey Shevyrin – for perfect performing of Yoshinkan techniques, members of “Aikido out of limits” group, our Aiki-grandies – for a courage, because they performed Kihon dosa to kanren waza in the downpour only on the grass!
On the 22d of August there was another enbu on the Celebration of Russian Flag Day. Ad honorem of this event members of Shosetsu Kan performed an enbu on the beach of Akademgorodok in the context of Extreme Sports Festival.
New training year
I don’t know why, but summer in Russia – holiday time 
. And this time some part of students likes to rest and relax. As a result of this fact we have to correct training schedule, to join some groups etc.
I am glad to declare that this summer goes to its unlogical end (unlike of European part of Russian Federation, where this summer went crazy, there wasn’t normal summer in Siberia as usual), and from September 2010 a new training year will start. In view of this fact we, instructor staff of Siberian Yoshinkan Aikido Federation, are glad to see on tatami our students again and all beginners, who will wish to join us first time.
Training schedule is preparing and will publish on the site of Shosetsu Kan and my site soon.
Keep your eyes on the news!
Report of Vitaliy Podobaev about the seminar under the guidance of Jacques Payet Sensei
“Dear Podoynikov A. san, first let me introduce myself. My name is Jacques Payet, a former uchideshi of late Shioda Gozo, and I am based in Kyoto Japan. Since September this year, Yasuhusa Shioda Kancho asked me to take over the organization of the IYF and help with the international affairs at the Honbu.”
From this letter 10.10.2009 our contacts with Yoshinkan Aikido Master of 7 Dan, Shihan of Hombu Dojo and simply very unusual man were started. And these contacts leaded us to the event, which will be in our hearts a long time – an Aikido Yoshinkan seminar under the guidance of a person, who is the legend of Aikido World for me, and communication with him is a good fortune, because the month before this letter I started to translate for our students from English to Russian an adaptation of tales and memories of Shioda Gozo Sensei from his own life – the very useful book “Aikido Shugyo. Harmony in Confrontation”. (more…)
Report about Aikido Yoshinkan seminar under the guidance of Shioda Kancho in Novosibirsk
So, it was happened!
Yes, my dear comrades, as I told you before, there was the Aikido Yoshinkan seminar under the guidance of the Director of this Aikido style, Shioda Yasuhisa Sensei, in Novosibirsk from 20th to 23d of February. (more…)
Some about senses and feelings
I review the movie of Master Akira Kurosawa “Sichinin no samurai” very often. The scene of warriors’ choosing, who will protect the village, makes me glad especially. And that’s a question: which part of the body does an individual feel the ambush?
Do you remember that moment? Samurai is invited to the house, the youngest warrior have to hide near the doorway and bit the entering man to the head. And he bits. It’s interesting next.
The first samurai is bitted – he is a dead drunk. The second enters, throws young samurai artfully and goes away proudly. The third stops behind the door and starts laughing: “You’re sly men! You try to cheat me!” And the last samurai comes to this house at the time, when the ambush was removed.
One thinks, that Aikido – it’s not only the techniques involved in it. I understand that there wasn’t such martial art at that ancient time. But I think, that last two warriors were on the top of their possibilities, senses and feelings. These features allowed them to avoid troubles.
I think this is the sense of the world around. I think this is pure Aikido.
