Great class last night!

[gheinisch]

Hello everyone, just thought I would share a little about our class last night. It was quite an experience, our Hanshi (9th Dan) arranged to have in our class two of his students who he has known basically all his life and trained them as children to the adults they are now. One is a 6th Dan and the other is a 7th Dan. One lives in another state and the other is a couple of hours away from our dojo. To have all that knowledge at you disposal was an awesome experience as well as very humbling. To see them perform basic as well as advanced forms with such percision and grace was something to behold. We learned a new kata as well, Dan Enn Sho. I love it already. It shows off five of the animal forms and is very powerful and graceful. I've rambled enough, just wanted to share with some fellow Martial Artist.

[aefibird]

Wow, that sounds like an amazing class!

 

Will the 6th & 7th Dan be visiting your dojo again, sometime?

[gheinisch]

We hope so. The 7th Dan is a pilot and has to come to Atlanta every six months or so to do simulator training and trys to make it to at least one class when he's in town. The 6th Dan is very busy and trys to make it when he can, but thats not as often as we like. We're trying to talk him into moving closer. This is the first time that we've had them together other then one other time when they brought a student down from Boston (another student of our Hanshi has a school there) to test for his 2nd Dan. That was pretty incredible too see as well. Two and a half hours of testing and then he had to spar against our Hanshi the 6th and 7th Dans and his Sensei (3rd Dan) for 5 minutes each. He did it, but was totally exhausted in the end.