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	<title><![CDATA[Friendship seminar]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[Fukakusa Sensei is doing his annual visit to my dojo and it's always instructive and illuminating to see him in action.  Not to mention humbling :).  I feel like a beginner all over again because I feel like there are so many things I'm simply not getting as I've never been that good a visual learner and there are most certainly  a bunch more things I don't even know I'm not getting.

I was lucky to be partnering two guys who are actually a lot better than me the last two sessions though so they caught more of the subtlety of the movements and helped me try and discover those aspects.  

We did a lot of moves where we had to slip to the side very slightly.  Just enough to "enter".  And I found a lot of the time I wasn't either raising my hands up at the initial movement in a sword hand movement to protect myself and meet the attack just before sliding slightly to the side.  

Either that or i was simply not "entering" deeply enough so that I was close enough to launch a response that came from my centre.  

So many things, so little time....all I can say is I hope I remember to drill these little movements as without the followup practice, it's all going to fade away fast.]]></body>
	<date>11-05-2008</date>
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