General Status Update

For the last couple of days things have been going well, the house is starting to come together and the other two guys from NZ - Tim n Lee have both arrived ( with the later arriving outside our house at 2am last night unexpectedy), theyr both decent guys and train hard so no problems there.




Training is going better and better, starting to catch some of the guys that made mincemeat of me when I first arrived, even managed to sneakily catch Wailou once Yesterday with a Tai otoshi (Body drop throw - see pic for reference) Tonight was especially good, went full throttle - both the other guys from NZ also went hard and did well.

We have our first competition on the 6th of next month in Osaka City, so we will be training as hard as possible in preparation for that. Looking forward to having a competition and seeing how I go aswell as travelling to another city.
Last night at training there was a Batsugun for the team captain, who I think was getting a Dan promotion - he fought 10 members in a row winning all fights, then after training began as normal though slightly later & he still trained just as hard as everybody else for the next 3 hours. Never seen somebody that fit before, really impressive fighting spirit.

Our house dosnt have a shower so we have made do with this short nozzle in the laundry area that you can point at yourself, since the floor has decent drainage it seems to work. The universitys all have free showers we discovered today so will probably be using them from now on even when theres no training.

Due to it being a really busy last week I havnt really had much time to keep up with people back home, I havnt forgotten about anyone but just have been flat tack with Judo, Judo, working on the house, the guys arriving etc. I hear from reliable sources that I'm to be recieving a parcel early next week containing essentials like Coffee, chocolate, vogel, cheese, vegimite, some dvds and honey. I'm not a big muncher of honey usually but you cant get it for less than 2,500 Yen here so I really am looking forward to using some of that.

We got some pots and pans courtesy of Byan, who also provided us with a toater (thanks) which will be awesome so we can now make some scrambled eggs, being dying for that for the last week or so...

Tomorow we are training at Ritsumeikan University & Monday we are training with the RIOT POLICE(as there arent riots often all these guys do is Kendo/Judo/Karate all day long) which will hopefully be hardcore!Maybe now the picture at the start of this post makes a bit more sense. we also will be training with the normal police squad aswell. My body is a bit tender all over right now but holding up well with no injuries and not long to sunday when I do some serious recovery & start next week fresh.

It's time for me to nake a power nap for the evening then catch up with Iraklis as I havnt seen him in a bit.

J