Piotr Stępniak

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:

• August 2009 – summer camp(!!!) – it was great, 1000 words could not describe all the impressions, check this note, pics and video (!), which are on…
• the new Official Site of Polish Chi Ryu Instructors launched after the summer camp
• speaking of, after the summer camp another website has been started: Dojo Haragei of sensei Krzysztof Miśkiewicz, where you can also buy Kobudo training weapons
• but wait, there is more – a new layout was introduced to websites of Honshitsu from sensei Rafał Tokarczyk, SWPW from sensei Przemysław Wiśniewski, Hangaku from sensei Piotr Michalak, and recently refreshed in design the Official website of Shihan Jhonny Bernaschewice!
• September 2009 – Chi Ryu Aiki-jitsu and Okinawa Kobudo seminar in Zabrze, my review, photos and a short video are here
• October 2009 – Chi Ryu and Okinawa Kobudo seminar in Świebodzin, after which you may see a handful of my thoughts and photos
• Janurary 2010 – Oświęcim – Chi Ryu and Okinawa Kobudo seminar in SWPW Dojo, my story as participant, sensei Przemek’s story as main instruktor
• February 2010 – Oświęcim bis, this time especially for Chi Ryu Dojo from Poznań – as above there are two (different!) accounts of it: mine and the leading instructor’s

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.