Grading 31/4-07

Proud of you, guys. In no particular order:

Eythor
Bjørg
Maria
Åsa
Tommy
Thrøstur
Eyrun

Pass shodan.

Sweden.... :-)

Well, the icelanders are back to make Stockholm unsafe again...

Settled in at the hotel, and now we are apparently going shopping...

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Its now sunday morning and i think we did better this year than i thought we would. 4 bronze and one silver was the result from yesterday. A couple of mistakes on our part, bit of bad luck and a bit of bad judging, but all in all; We did well.

:-)

Ramblings, the sequel

First installment of this series has been hidden due to excessive negativity on my part. And seeing as nothing of this really matters in the big scheme of things: Ohwell.

UM-07

Apparently Breidablik and KAK is doing something right these days....... (A)

First and second place in the "best club" competition, again.....
Congratulations, guys. Just goes to show that basic simple
shotokan done right still works.

Highlights for me this time, in no particular order:

Heidas Bassai Dai
Gummis power
Åsa showed up when sick and won silver and gold.
Bjørgs Jion

The rest of the competitors from the 2 clubs also made
me proud to be teaching here. Keep it up guys.

And to help you guys realize how good
we are, check out this guy.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFdDBwbU7Qk

Shortly i am planning to post some of our kata to compare..... (a)


:-)

Is it a plane? Is it a bike? Is it this or that??

NOPE!!!! Its a toy!!!! :-D

My almost brand new Mazda MX5 might not have many doors or many seats...... The roof is also of questionable quality........

But......

WHO CARES!!!!!!????!?!!!???

Hihihi...... Bright red and not very practical but how fun is it on a regular scale?

Atleast 1000...... (weeeeeeee)

NIIIZE

Wassup? 2 :-)

So, how do i like Iceland....? (Islandsk spøk..... haha...)
Apparently very well (Mjøg vel....)

I got here 1095 days ago, and have no plans of leaving.....
On 8/2-04, though..... I was lying in my bed, looking at
the ceiling and thinking: What the hell have you done???
I had signed up for 16 weeks of teaching up here, finished
one, and was in very serious pain everywhere. I was trying
to come up with a way i could get get out of the last 15 weeks,
but thats a secret..... (hihi)

Three years later, i think this was the best that could have
happened at the time. I am now half fit again, my karate is
being kept half sharp and things are looking pretty rosy.

Thanks guys for putting up with me and thanks to Andrè
for going home and talking me into coming here. (Now if
somebody just could find that weatherguy and beat him...)

;-D

Wassup? :-)

I am still alive.....

2007 so far: Lots of snow, started icelandic course (erfitt...)

A djøfunni:

2/2 - 4/2 Pat McCluskey in Thorshamar
16/2 - 18/2 Koike Yutaka at Haukar
30/3 - 1/4 Kawasoe Masao

Also seniorclasses on every other sunday:

For ikkyu and above, 1700 at Thorshamar, all shotokan-
stylists are welcome. 11/2 and 25/2 and so on.

Other than that, i am off to New York again 1/5 - 11/5....
Next year someone should join me.... Training almost privately
in the WTKO honbudojo is *very* special....

June is also looking very niiize... 3/6 - 10/6 in Trieste training
with Koikes italian hero, Paolo Bolaffio of www.makotokai.com
and then ICEHOT2 with Richard Amos and Steve Ubl for a week.

A week and a half to recover in Iceland, before we scoot off to
Norway to train in Fredrikstad with the world-class team of
Aidan Trimble (awesome 7th dan) Richard Amos (superawesome
6th dan), Tom Kompier (awesome 5th dan from Holland)
and Scott Langley (awesome 4th dan instructor-class graduate)

Week off to recover in Stavanger, and back to my fab blue house.
(I hope it dont get taken down.... Feel free to join me in the hoping)