Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 22:43:06 -0400
From: Philip Akin
<akin@PATHCOM.COM>
Subject: Seminar Review
I would love to say that Jun covered all the bases so i don't have anything
to add but alas you will have to suffer through another blissful report.
I think I have mostly general comments. This seminar had a different feel
from the others. Perhaps it was because it felt like getting together with
old friends to meet new friends as opposed to the just getting to meet
people for the first time feeling.
This was also the first seminar to be held in a dojo and that had such a
special feel. Ikeda Sensei was so very gracious and welcoming and his
feelings were mirrored by his students to the extent that I almost felt bad
that so few listka had actually shown up.
There was an openness of heart and mind that made it all very easy to
share. I enjoyed all of the classes whether or not I was able to take part
or not. I must confess to stealing whatever I could and bringing it home
to work on and incorporate in my own private study.
I was so impressed with the aerobic nature of the workout that I instituted
it in my Tuesday class. My regular students of course thank aikido-l for
the opportunity to push so hard that they had to sit down.....smiling....
I would like to thank everyone who came and let me be their uke. And I
would like to kind of single out those crazy Rocky Mountain Ki guys who
tried so hard to get the 95 degree thing happening and still throw soft.
As a teacher it is a great gift to find willing minds who "try" and "not
judge" and so I thank you for that.
Scott of course got to be the semi toy this year but I have great plans for
the future.
Tarik who some have said might have been laid low by the sweet Water of
Life but I feel he fell prey to the mountain tengu and will recover once he
is back in the lowlands.
Thank you Jun, Ikeda Sensei, the other instructors and to all who came and
played on the mountain so we could be a little closer to the heavens.
Philip
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