Pedro Fleitas Seminar in Hamm
Ok, it’s been a while since I went to Pedro’s seminar, but let’s add this anywayz…
If I remember correctly it was on the 28 & 29th of June, in Hamm Germany.
We managed to arrive a little late due to following blindly the GPS directions hahaha, we ended up at a farm, afterwards seems that there are alot of streets named as the address we were going to!
well, eventually we got there but since it’s was nearly noon, we just started training with the afternoon sessions.
The hall was great, big and airy, enough space for the somewhat 130 buyu in there.
For me it was the first time I saw Pedro & learned from him. And it was great!!
I don’t want to go all praising on him or anyone, but I just want to say how I felt … he’s simply great, he’s a warm nice person, and a great teacher! I loved to see him move! You can see well on him, how when you grow to that level it’s not just techniques or whatever but also as a person that you evolve!
I was happy to be able to go to this seminar since I wasn’t gonna be able to go to the Paris Taikai due to already booked holidays : (
Anywayz… as you can see on the pictures; I was injured. Just a week before I had an accident during training where my elbow popped out for a second and hurt my muscles around it! The muscles had alot of tiny little cuts/ rips whatever you may call them. And in the end it took them about 2 months to heal.
Sooo… I couldn’t really train to the fullest, had to be carefull all the time, but still had a great training! I played it safe & just trained with the one person that knew well what was wrong and was carefull in training with me. This injury did bring an interesting view to training though, not alone for me but for my training partner as well. We had to find out ways of putting the technique into a one armed/handed move and mostly it needed to be mirrored too since it was my right elbow and most things were shown right handed. It gave us a very interesting creative training! : )
To round it up; those Germans are well organized!! : ) I hope I can go to many more seminars/ taikai’s or whatever from them!
next; Shidoshiseminar 8 & 9 november, same place. looking forward to it!
here are some pictures – for more; visit my zenfolio
enjoy
