Yoshinken
     
   
         
    3rd International Taikiken Gasshuku Lygnared, 19 August 2008

Yoshinken
 

A very successful camp that commenced during a full storm resulting in the administration tent being demolished, while Sensei Jan Kallenbach and Sempai Åke hung like weights on the restaurant tent so that this did not disappear as well – in fact Åke lost contact with the ground and was saved by Sensei Jan´s extra kilo´s. All participants arrived on Thursday and like previous gashuku´s it was good to see the familiar and the new faces. This year the cabins were (almost) enough for all and we were given a warm welcome by Staffan and Carina.


Thursday evening a meeting was held for the instructors from Europe to go through the training program which was a new concept this year – dividing all into smaller groups allowing closer contact with the sensei with the possibility of asking explainnations, this proved to be much appreciated. Some instructors were however missed this time – Sensei Jean-Luc Lesueur also Sensei Hans Bakker, and Sensei Jacques Legree participated as a trainee.
This year training was emphasised on stillness, important details on difficult techniques were appreciated.






 

On Saturday evening the annual Taikiken European Federation meeting was held and then later three short presentations by Sempai Åke, changes in his 35 years budo training, Sempai Marco, and Rickard told how they used the principles from Taikiken in their daily work, these experiences were most interesting and liked by all attending, shown by the applaud afterwards.

The training experienced by the French team with Sensei Marshall will not be forgotten in training the basic defence against padded bo, jo, and shinai in the lake. The following day all 44 kenpoka went through training in the water with Sensei Marshall showing the concentration needed – some things worked others did not, but all enjoyed this different way of training.

All too soon the Gashuku ended, and this international group of wonderful budoka left knowing it would be a year before meeting again

Åke Wall

 

 


Andreas and Åke




Early Morning




Gashuku evening

 


Monika and Henrik




Perfekt Taiki weather




Sensei Jan teaching




Sensei Jaques teaching Åke





Sensei Kallenbach and Marko

 


Training in the sea




Sensei Marshall, Sensei Jaques and Varta

 

 

 

 

 


Sensei Marshall




Tsui Shu




Sensei Wiert and Patrik




Sensei Wiert Teaching




Small game (winner France)




The group in harmony




The group in the tent that never was used





The Taiki Camp




The Taikiken group 2008




The Taikiken Senseis at Gashuku 2008