[Aikido] Kangeiko Winter Training!

[Sean Flynn]

Dear Everybody,

   Let's start a new club tradition---kangeiko, or Winter Training Camp.

   In Japan, entire clubs will literally go to a dojo in the remote 
mountains and spend two or three days training very hard core.  Typically, 
the dojo is open air and totally unheated.  So your feet are freezing even 
if the rest of you is sweating buckets from hard exertion.

   We won't go crazy like that.

   But, instead, let's have extended afternoon practices on both Monday and 
Tuesday in our normal room, the MPR.  Let's practice from 1 to 5 p.m. each 
day.  I will be going over the entire Junana-hon, reviewing the Juppon Ura 
Waza, and some advanced techniques from the dai san in addtion to do lots 
of repetitions of the Nanhon no Kuzushi waza.

   This will be big fun!

   I want everyone to come as much as possible both days.  It will build a 
solid base for us as we proceed through the semester and build up our 
abilities in preparation for the World Championships, which the US is 
hosting this August.  I want everyone in the club to go and 
participate.  You'll make many new friends from all over the world and also 
see some truly amazing, world-class aikido out of the Japanese and British 
and Belgians.

Cheers,

Sean



Yours truly,

Sean Flynn
Assistant Professor of Economics
Vassar College
124 Raymond Ave #424
Poughkeepsie NY 12604-0424
USA

Telephone:      845-437-5209
FAX:            845-437-7576
E-mail: flynn at vassar.edu

My Academic Website is http://irving.vassar.edu/faculty/sf/sf.htm
My Aikido Website is http://vassar-aikido-club.com