2010
03.25

Crane in Japan is believed to be a magical creature. Even an origami crane is thought to have special properites. It is said that if one makes a 1000 of such he/she will be granted one wish from the Crane, such as long life or recovery from a serious ilness. A 1000 paper cranes on a string is called Senbazuru and can even be a wedding gift. Read more at wiki.

2010
03.22

2010
03.21

It’s high time to plan the summer holiday ;)

Plakat obozu Chi Ryu Dźwirzyno 2010

Place: Dźwirzyno, BisPol holiday center.

Date: 4-13.08.2010

Main guest and instructor: Shihan Jhonny Bernaschewice (present 9-13.08)

Other instructors: sensei Przemysław Wiśniewski, sensei Rafał Tokarczyk

Price: 1150 zł

Advance: 300 zł until 30.04.2010 (CAUTION! Don’t miss!)

For more information you may ask me, go to Chi-Ryu.pl, SWPW, or contact the organizator directly: Di-Dan.de

If you’re hesitating, see this.

2010
03.21

Nearly a year has passed since I made any comments on my site regarding seminars. It’s not because there was nothing to write about. Everyday’s race got me. Luckily, in the web, there is written and photographic trace of all the interesting events. Here’s a small, chronological summary:

Of course these are only the seminars I participated in. I encourage you to see through the archives of linked sites. You’ll find lots of notes and photos from other meetings I could not go to, e.g. a great story from Jerzy about the seminar in Pressbaum. I also recommend you to keep looking at Shihan Jhonny Bernaschewice’s blog, it’s updated very often with short notes and photos from seminars with Shihan in Hombu Dojo and away.

This year’s calendar looks really interesting, I’ll try not to spare kilobytes about the next voyages.

2010
03.05

Nightly builds

Changes, changes, changes. I’m rebuilding the website. Improving, changing, making things easier – for the Readers and myself. The plan holds:

  • easier search through (almost) the whole content of the site
  • a bit more reasonable navigation
  • better support for bilingual articles/entries
  • easier and faster actualization, which is suppose to reflect in the amount of them
  • time for writing scripts and gadgets like Kami

You will notice that some pages will disappear for some time. They will be back as soon as they hold any content. In other words – it the end of ‘there will be article here’ pages. I finally have a picture in my head of what the content of each part of the site will look like. Truth be said the whole site will remain a specific mixture of subjects which may not fit together perfectly, but I’ll try my best to make it easy as possible for the Reader to find his/her favourite parts. In the end I’ll attempt to make the visual side of the site nicer and relevant to the content of each part (the red and black background with samurai shall not die ;) ).

As usually I’d very much like to hear all your suggestions regarding any aspect of  the site including possible improvements.

Oh, one more thing. Some content may occur only in Polish (due to my laziness or lack of time). If you’re interested to read it in English just let me know in the comments and I shall translate it quickly.

2010
01.07

…te kilka domów, te kilka ulic…”

(Grabarz)

2010
01.07

Red Nails

Somewhere between 2009 and 2010…

(z dedykacją dla R. i G.)