May 2008 Just arrived back from Japan, Kyoto and Okinawa. What a trip!! Two very extreme edges of classical Budo, first Kyoto the 125th Anniversary of the historical Dai Nippon Butokukai, extremely formal, deeply led by Japanese protocol. The event as usual held in the oldest Japanese Dojo the Butokuden the HQ of the Dai Nippon Butokukai, the place Miyagi, Funakoshi, Kano and Ueshiba demonstrated their art and have been officially accredited by the Dai Nippon Butokukai. We (with Smulik Sensei) had the privilege to demonstrate and participate in the most spiritual and professional Budo demonstration of Japan. All very old Budoka gathered together for the World Butokusai...and they showed they ability. Excellent way to be able to watch first hand the oldest Budo traditions (different ryuha/schools) and it’s representatives demonstrating their art. I demonstrated in three occasions at the Karatedo section: Tensho, Suparinpai, Shishochin Bunkai and Shishochin Kata. and in the Kobudo section demonstrated Sai....and finally at the closing ceremony did Kururunfa. What a great experience. We also had a great day of seminars I concentrated on Jo (short stick)...met a great lady, Shihan Teacher, a very famous and respected one in Japan. Great class... I will try to keep in touch with her to be able to extend my studies. We visited the famous Shorenin Shrine of Kyoto, who's leader, head priest is Fugashimi Jikko a close relative of Japan's emperor who is leading the Dai Nippon Butokukai on behalf of the emperor. After the week long event on Kyoto we moved down to Okinawa our home base Dojo the Jundokan for a week long training with our Jundokan family. Very hard and dedicated training section...with Taira, Gima and Kinjo sensei and off course Kancho Miyazato observing and looking close by. Very different friendly atmosphere. We worked on a very different level of using Kata training to develop fighting skills, exploding focus, and a different way to train Kata for very Senior Yudansha. We differently had some good and productive times. Dear Friends, The Gashuku was a great success, with 175 participants from 8 countries (Okinawa, Austria, Germany, England, South Africa, Australia, Hungary and Israel). Off course we are delighted and excited to have with us our Okinawan Sensei team: Miyazato Kancho, Taira sensei, Gima Sensei, Azuma Sensei and McIlvride Sensei... THANK YOU ALL !!! 80 Senior Yudansha enlighted the training with heir presence. Some of them remarkable very Senior Teachers and country leaders like, Dr. Fredrick Gsodam Sensei (8th Dan of Austria) and his team , Braam Peans Sensei (7th Dan of South Africa) and his team , Jannie Le Grange Sensei (6th Dan of South Africa) and his team , Jonathan Sandler Shihan (5th Dan of Australia) and Ken Erridge Sensei (England), Mario Wolfram Sensei (Austria) and his team and of course, Shihan Attila and myself with our people of Hungary and Israel. I humbly hope, we did our sincere share to promote and strengthen our historic Jundokan Dojo and it should not be a one time event....I hope, we will be able to continue to share quality time of training in the future. Thank you all for the participation and your valuable personal input to our common success. I would like to thank personally Shihan Attila and his great team Regi, Anna, Marci, Gabor and the others for their selfless hard work, it is truly appreciated, you gave us a home like hospitality ! Here is some picture collections from our International Jundokan Gashuku held in Hungary, 20 - 26 July, 2006. You need some patient for uploading, but it is working: http://www.photoshow.net/IKarateDo/favorites enjoy !!! see you all, with care, always........rony Dear all, I am delighted to announce that we start a new project of weekly classes of MEDITATION at our Honbu Dojo. The MEDITATION classes will start at Friday, 29 September at 15:30. The classes are only for over 17 years old and above. Meditation classes will be combined practice of meditation and theoretical, philosophical aspects as well. All interested please, contact Kancho for registration.