Hello, here is another newsletter for the Swedish Taikai. We will send out the last newsletter on Tuesday right before the Tai Kai. All final news will be in that last newsletter, so make sure you read that one to!
The training area (we will also have tatami mats)
Right now we have 128 people from 15 countries signed up. We have room for many more, so please try to make it. If you don’t come we will miss you!
I have been asked about confirmations about registration, and payments. Please understand that doing this would be unnecessary job for us. If you’re not sure, bring the receipt. If you don’t remember if you signed up, just come anyway. Please don’t worry everything will be ok!
Payment: If you come from abroad, please bring 500 SEK cash and pay the seminar fee at the registration. For Swedish… Var vänlig betala in lägeravgiften senast 8:e September (imorgon!) till Svenska Budoförbundets Plusgiro 612120-6, skriv referensnumret och deltagarens namn så här “7803015 Deltagarens Namn“. OBS! glöm inte referensnumret annars registreras inte inbetalningen till oss! Det går också bra att betala på plats vid registreringen.
We made a special Tai-kai T-shirt’s that we will sell for 150 kr each. It have the Bujinkanförbundets “Viking logo” on the chest. On the back it have paintings done by Hatsumi Soke. It says Kihon happo (thanks to Steve Olsen for this one), and a painting of a viking (thanks to Petter Swedin for this one). Note, we are not taking pre-bookings, please buy it at the Tai Kai Shop!
Tai Kai Shop: If you have things you want to sell, you can bring it, but you have to stand there yourself and take care of sales, questions etc. The Kaigozan Budoshop will also have some DVD’s, if you want something special from their huge DVD catalog, please contact Budoshop in good time.
Tai Kai DVD will be filmed and produced. You can pre-order it at the Tai Kai Shop for 350 kr, and it will be sent to your address when it is finished.
Friday pre-training: The training is at Svea Kampsportcenter on Sveavägen 130 in Stockholm. We will start around 15:00 and finish around 20:00. We understand that people will arrive att different times, and it is of course ok to drop in when you can. We have invited several 15′th Dans that will attend the Tai Kai to teach. At the moment we have Mats Hjelm (Sweden), Rikard Sundelius (Sweden), Christian Appelt (Sweden), Mirko Ostojic (Serbia), Ari Julku (Finland) and possibly a few more (see the web site).
Tai Kai (Saturday and Sunday) training: The training is at Lilla Alby Skola, Humblegatan 19-21, Sundbyberg, Stockholm, Sweden. We will open the registration at 9:00 and start the training at 10:00, please don’t come the last minute so that we can start on time, we have a tight schedule (the schedule will be posted on the next newsletter). Training will finish around 18:00 with a two hour lunch break and smaller breaks in the middle. On Sunday the training will start around 10:00 and finish around 16:30, on Sunday we will only have 30 minutes lunch break so make sure you bring something with you to eat.
All four instructors will teach the whole Tai Kai group once. Then we will also split the group in two; one Shidoshi group and one for beginners and people up to 4′th Dan. All instructors will teach both groups once. So it will be an action packed weekend with lots of training.
We are also renting tatami mats, it will not cover the whole area but most of it.
Saturday party: We are still trying to figure out all details how to make this thing easy and not to expensive for you. The plan is those who want to eat pay us in advance on Saturday morning. Then we will order the food and get it delivered and we eat somewhere local. For those that want to eat somewhere else can join us when we finished eating and socialize, maybe try some good home brewed beer made by the goat Heiðrún. More info about this on the last newsletter.
Accomodation: We can not promise everyone a place at the Kaigozan Dojo, but you can also sleep at the Bujinkan To Nan Dojo, from door to door (train ride and walking) it is around 25 minutes trip. If you want a hotel we recommend Solna Park Inn (15 min walk to the training).
If it is your first time in Stockholm, please see the official tourist information page here! You can find everything from transportations, hotels, things to do and much more.
Please study and print out the map!
This Tai Kai is sponsored and possible only by the Svenska Bujinkanförbundet. Without them we could not keep this very low seminar price and such excellent instructors.
Head organizer for this years Tai Kai is Mats Hjelm from the Kaigozan Dojo, with the help from Kaigozan Dojo members and other Bujinkan members.
If I forgot to bring something up here, please don’t hesitate to post a comment here (or e-mail me)!
Happy Training!
/Mats
Duncan was Nagato Shihan’s sole uke at the Bujinkan Hombu for two years when studying direct from the Gyokko Ryu and Kukishinden Ryu Densho. Duncan has also studied Nihon Buyo (Traditional Japanese Dance) under the direction of Noguichi Sensei.
