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)

OMG!!!!! (No, really....!!!!!)

Pimped gi-pictures

This weeks megalomaniac

Membership to prove you are clueless, anyone?

Warning: My suggestion is below here, and may seem harsh, so if you are overly sensitive, then you should stop reading now...... (No, really, i have plans to be rather radical.......)

Ok, you were warned.......

Somebody *PLEASE* put these guys out of their misery..... Then print out these pages to use in your defence. "No, really.... the world *IS* a better place now, your honor.... And Einar and the voices inside my head told me to do it....."

And to support your noble effort, i will give you a polkadotted gi and 17th and a half dan if you can rid the world of some of these broken miserable people.....

Footcare

To make sure that you get the most out of every class, make sure you prepare your feet, so that blisters and cuts dont ruin the fun of it all.

Changing floors, upping the amount of training or intensity is three ways that will adversly affect the skin of your feet.

So, how to make sure that yours stay in perfect shape?

Its all about being proactive in care. That means that you need to treat them *before* you get some problem.

Standard care:
1. Use a footfile to remove hard skin.
2. Get a good moisterizer and use it morning and night.
3. About once a month i take a long, hot footbath and then use a footrazor to remove excess skin. (Dont use the razor on dry skin cause the possibility of cutting yourself is too big)

Trainingcamp care:
1. In addtion to the normal care i add more moisterizer before and after each class.
2. Bring some sportstape. If you should be unfortunate enough to get blisters, then tape in advance if at all possible.

Einars list of readily available recommended products:

Scholl footrazor
Scholl footfile
Vaseline Intensive Care moisterizer
Nivea Bodylotion

Whichever moisturizer you choose, try to not get the ones with the most perfume. Then make a habit of preparing your feet for training. They will love you for it.....

:-)

CHRISTMAS!!!

Weeeeeee!!!! Pretty lights everywhere, days off sounds good (even though i know i will get bored) and to finish it all off, i cant wait for new years eve!!!! Icelanders go completly bananas (again), so the fireworks is really out of this world. (Niiiice, i liiiike......)

And regarding my passion: Gradings coming up, and i am confident people will do well. The gashuko with Richard Amos sensei was a huge success and the chances of him returning some time looks pretty good, too. Him and the WTKO technical director, Steve Ubl sensei, is joining us in Italy next summer. Gonna be *the* european event of the year.

All in all, things are pretty niiiice.