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Old 05-27-2009, 08:07 AM   #12
Eva Antonia
Dojo: CERIA
Location: Brussels
Join Date: Apr 2008
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Re: How do you train in a Seminar?

Hi,

I go to a lot of seminars, and it is mostly for the pleasure of discovering something new, a different approach, different ways of doing the same, new people, whatever. If it were only for the signatures half or a third of the seminar would do. It is for fun and enlightenment.

But being only 4th kyu, it happens often to me that I really don't grasp the technique the teacher is showing, or simply don't understand the difference between what he shows and what we are always doing. So I hope the partners don't get too frustrated, but normally they are very nice and either try to explain or admit they didn't get it neither.

However, the brilliant thing in seminars is that there is always one or the other, be it minuscule, learning effect, and I never went home from a seminar where I learnt NOTHING - except one Endo seminar, but there I learnt at least that his aikido was much beyond my abilities and took the decision to postpone Endo seminars for some years...

Best regards,

Eva
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