{"id":2591,"date":"2010-05-21T12:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2013-02-04T14:04:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T13:04:53","slug":"the-start-of-a-good-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/news\/the-start-of-a-good-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of a Good Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p title=\"Till hemsidan f\u00f6r Shorinji Kempo Sk\u00f6vde Shibu\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" alt=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-5-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a title=\"To the homepage of Shorinji Kempo Sk\u00f6vde Shibu\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skskovde.se\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sk\u00f6vde Shibu<\/a> which is one of the youngest clubs in Sweden, the organization on Saturday 8 May, a training day in the Sk\u00f6vde. Participated did Kenshi from Sk\u00f6vde, Gothenburg and Karlstad Shibu.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" alt=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-1-640x425.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The idea was to get to a point where as many as possible who normally do not train with each other could meet and exchange ideas and experiences. Thanks to Sk\u00f6vde&#8217;s location in the middle of the three branches, it was easy for everyone to get there over the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" alt=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-2-640x425.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" alt=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-6-425x640.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>Anders-sensei from Karlstad Shibu held the first session in the morning. It was a good relaxed workout for those who spent a couple hours in the car that morning. The emphasis was on <em>s\u014dtai<\/em> forms of <em>tenchi ken<\/em> and <em>ry\u016b<em>\u014d<\/em> ken<\/em>, which well fit into the training day&#8217;s spirit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" alt=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-4-425x640.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>After lunch, that we had in the dojo, we practiced reaction time and stress management in self-defense situations.<br \/>\n&#8211; It&#8217;s hard to act when you are stressed, even if it only is during an exercise noted Peter Thorvald 1 kyu, he continues; only the techniques you are really confident with work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" alt=\"Practiceday in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-practice-3-640x425.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last session for this time was again Anders-sensei, where each of the participants had the opportunity to study his\/hers techniques for the next grade with someone from another club. The class ended with a question-and-answer session where Anders-sensei shared his knowledge with us. Everything from <em>seih\u014d<\/em> to <em>keri age<\/em> were discussed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-anders-sensei.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Anders-sensei answer questions during the practice day in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" alt=\"Anders-sensei answer questions during the practice day in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-anders-sensei-640x425.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All in all, the organizers in Sk\u00f6vde were very pleased with the day. We will try to organize this on a regular basis and hopefully it will become a tradition. We hope that more clubs close to each other will be inspired and organize something similar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-group-picture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Group picture from the practice day in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" alt=\"Group picture from the practice day in Sk\u00f6vde, May 2010.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/skovde-2010-may-group-picture-640x425.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Olofsson<br \/>\nSk\u00f6vde Shibu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sk\u00f6vde Shibu which is one of the youngest clubs in Sweden, the organization on Saturday 8 May, a training day in the Sk\u00f6vde. Participated did Kenshi from Sk\u00f6vde, Gothenburg and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shorinjikempo.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}