02.23
I have never attended a seminar with Shihan Jhonny Bernaschewice I didn’t like, also I have never been to such a great seminar like this one before. In scale from 1 to 10 I’ll give it 11! 
But lets go back to the start. For me this has been the first visit to Chi-Ryu Aiki-jitsu Hombo Dojo, as long as for Marek and Patrycja. Only Sensei Przemek of our 4 has been at Hombo Dojo many times before. This became our advantage as he knew where to take us, he also made this seminar possible for us at all for which I am really very grateful to him
The travel to Belgium although long was quite nice and even comfortable considering the amount of equipment and luggadge we had. We arrived late in the evening. After short but warm welcome from Shihan we set up at the dojo and having eaten supper went to sleep. The morning was cold and we got up fresh and ready for training…
We worked according to scheme of 2 trainings with Shihan a day, and one additional in the evening to memorize techniques. On Monday Shihan started with Chi-Ryu kihon kumite explaining not only the movement but also principals of kihon kumite practise. Then we moved on to jodo basics and kumi jo. On kobudo trainings we took off with bo and sai hojo undo‘s to go to Syushi-no Kun Kata bunkai.
On Wednesday we had our 2nd training with a group of German and Dutch collegues. It was nice and interesting experience. On that training we’ve learnt the whole ‘drawing’ of 5th bo kata – Shishi-no Kun. Morning on the other hand was devoted to Nage-no kata and ne-waza.
During those 5 days we also practiced some ken-jutsu, Shinto Kata, Chi-Ryu Aiki-jitsu (of course!) and more… There is no way to describe it all. Lots of details, explanations of the forms and correction of the errors all together made a precious gift from Shihan. But wait, there was even more! Yes, Shihan did not stop on a strict techniques trainings. While explaining key points of some of them or simply answering our questions he tried to give us a deep insight into Chi-Ryu, so he has also spent a lot of time giving us some basic lectures of acupuncture and even Japanese language which for me was both surprising and very fascinating.
Unseparable part of the seminar was also the time spent off the tatami so I have the pleasure of duty to report it as well 
. We had the honor to be guests in Shihan’s house one evening to spent it hearing his stories from travels to Okinawa and other. It was great! We also visited Mrs. Maria, Shihan’s mom, who is a truly likable and very nice woman. Just to add we’ve even found some time to watch several movies in our private dojo-cinema (Sensei Przemek’s laptop ), which usually accomplished evening relax.
To sum up, it was really nice to see Shihan in such a good health and as usual in great shape. The amount of knowledge he’s spilled into our heads was amazing and the great time spent together in Hechtel made this seminar unique and unforgettable for a very long time if not for life
Domo arigato gozaimas Sensei!
More Photos: Trainings and after trainings.
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