Well I did it - mailed my registration for camp today! My Sensei's eyebrows about hit the roof when I told him I was going. He has only been once, when he was testing for Godan a couple of years ago. But a lot of people say that going as a kyu rank is the best time to do it because the classes are so much smaller, I really enjoyed the (different) camp I did last summer, and my husband was able to get the time off to look after the kids while I'm gone, so I decided to go for it.

Have a good time, and make sure to give us a rundown of how it went, and what all you got to do!

Sounds awesome Do you know who's going to be teaching? What kind of stuff do you get up to?

I will definitely post a summary after I return.

The headlining instructors are Senseis Teruyuki Okazaki (ISKF), Yutaka Yaguchi (ISKF), Hideo Ochi (JKA Germany), Masaru Miura (SKI Europe), and Shunsuke Takahashi (TSKF Autrailia/New Zealand). However, I suspect they will mostly be teaching the black belts and the coloured belt classses will be taught by the ISKF technical commitee members - who are all 7th and 8th so pretty awesome too! I don't know exactly what we will learn, but with four hours of training every day for a week, I'm sure I will learn LOTS! There are also technical lectures in the evenings, and a tournament at the end.

Does sound good. Sounds like you'll be exhausted by the end though

Have fun and enjoy the teachings under some of the most noted karateka's around the world!! I look forward to reading about your experiences!!

Less than a week now until I go! I am simultaneously excited and terrified.

I'm looking forward to hearing about your experience--be sure to write things down! I haven't been able to attend any camps, myself, only seminars with individual people, so I enjoy hearing about things like this.

I'm back! It was a crazy and cool experience. I trained with many different and awesome Senseis and learned so much. I tried to keep notes but even by the end of the class I would start forgetting or mixing things up. I met a bunch of really amazing people from all over the world. I have not been so tired since my children were infants and am still sore 3 days later. I attended about 25 hours of training in 7 days. I totally hit the wall on the afternoon of the 5th day but I made myself push through and for some reason day 6 was easier. The last day was a tournament and there weren't many adult female brown belts so our division didn't take very long. I make a mistake in my kata (Bassia Dai) at one point so I came in last but oh well - I'm reasonably sure I will never make that mistake again LOL. My sparring still sucks and I lost in about 20 seconds but at least I'm not afraid anymore. Not sure what else to say - if anyone has specific questions please let me know and I will do my best to answer them!

Sounds like you had a blast across the board! Welcome back!