Seminar crash: politics & aikido

After looking left and right for news, sending emails to Japanese and Chinese dojos, I finally got real concrete information about Suganuma sensei, 8th dan, from Aikido Shoheijuku Dojo in Fukuoka, Japan.

Besides the Aikido, Suganuma sensei is also a master in Shodo, 書道, (Japanese calligraphy). Every time he visited Norway, he always dedicated some time at the end of the seminar letting the brush run on the special rice paper.. and always explaining about the way of the brush technique 🙂 It is always great when one has the chance to learn more about Japanese culture or different Japanese mind training. We do Aikido, it’s true, but with the years I have learned to appreciate every bit of culture or Japanese info I could gather from people like Suganuma sensei that has grown in a different time, learning things and.. about life in a different way.. probably more real for us, student of Japanese martial arts!

..Aikido does not end with the mats..

I felt better when I saw that also in Japan, among people that practice so much Aikido that should satisfy them forever, the practice does not end with the mats..

Even during a demanding and very good seminar, during the evenings one can always find some moment to share thoughts about techniques, to try or to show to an eager girlfriend how to punish a “bad” boyfriend 😉

From the left: Didier Boyet shihan, Gaute’s girlfriend & Gaute
From the right: Serge Beraud & Didier