Einar in London

Arrived Keflavik, checked in
Went through security
Thought i had lost my credicards
Freaked out, freaked out alot, found cards
Met Isak in dutyfree shop
Landed on time at Stanstead
Went by train and tube to Piccadilly Backpackers (12£ for a bed...)
Slept, had very bad breakfast
Tube, train and taxi to Windsor
No idea when training starts, but both me and Isak made it
3 hour of zukiwasa for the sandan and above group....
Indianfood... :p
Early night at my great singleroom with net and cabletv :p
Legs tired, worried that i will be very tired after class on sunday
Saturday classes were pretty slow, good thing the grading saved the day...
Sunday; More slow classes, BurgerKing and uneventful flight home.

Then i come home.... THE STALKERS HAVE BEEN AT MY PLACE!!! :O

Balloons everywhere..... All good.

:-D

SUMMER!!!!

(I love how icelanders suddenly say its summer, even though its snowing and is colder than in the Antarctica....)

Ohwell, i comfort myself with the idea that i am gonna buy me a Ipod Nano when i go to New York early june.... Speaking of NY... Manhattan looks absolutely awesome, and chances are that i will get to experience a play and a musical or 2. Hopefully the weather is gonna work out so i can roll around on my inline skates and see it all. Promise to bring my camera and be a good boy (for once) an take lots of pictures.

Unless my hotelplans changes, i will be living 100 meters from Times Square, and about 1.5 km from the dojo. Very close to Broadway, Central Park and I CANT WAIT TO GO!!!

:-)

5 other norwegians are going, and i am pretty sure that this will be a yearly event for me. Almost private training with the best instructor i have ever met. It is bound to be absolutely awesome. (Weeeeee!!!!)

New dangrades!!!

:-D

Congratulations to Palmar and Arnar who passed shodan and Eydis who passed nidan this weekend.

Very good job. Remember to keep the pedal to the metal and help the other kyugrades to get to your level. We expect you guys to keep shining as good examples of how this is done.

And to the kyugrades: Passing a dangrade is about attitude. Its about never giving up, not putting yourself down and always step up with a positive and strong feeling. Just basically do your best and concentrate 100% on your learning. Some of you will do outstanding gradings, some will do perfectly fine, but unless you quit, there will also come a time when your grading is not so good. (I expect to fail, sooner or later...) If you find that u do a grading that isnt all there, though, then treat it as a learning experience. If i fail, i will just try harder, and i will pass solidly the next time i try. You guys should also foster that spirit. (end of speach, lets get back 2 the fun stuff....)

From now on i think both KAK and Breidablik will have new dangrades every year....

Strange mail....

"Your pictures suck.

Mine are much better.

My kata team is much heavier than yours.

My belly is bigger than yours.

My girlfriend takes better pictures than yours.

My webpage is cooler than yours.

Kveðja Fat Bastard
ps. I forgot to mention that my style is better than yours and has it's
own domain http://hiddenhaitostyle.com with the link to the better
pictures taken by the better girlfriend.............
pps. The link to the pictures is at the bottom of the page.
ppps. If you think you girlfriend is better than mine send bikini
pictures and I will think about it."

If anyone can be helpful and make sure the "Fat Bastard" - dude gets to the gashuko this weekend, that would be appreciated....... And there is not enough pics of the people from the two best clubs in the pics your girlfriend took.....

(She *IS* hot, though, i give u that......)

;-)

Icelandic Championship in kata.

It seems like the slightly older juniors still rock...... (Very few of the winners were less than 30 years old....)

Congrats to Helgi and Eydis, and i would like to add that the scyri guy seems to b doing an ok job.... Breidablik and Karatefelag Akranes was the first and second best clubs. Very, very cool.

Pictures on www.kak.is and on www.123.is/karate

:-)

Back from Sweden

After an eventful weekend we are all back in the freezing cold.... Landed on Keflavik yesterday at 1600 and it looked like the same weather as in Sweden, but it was so f....ing cold that me and Danni almost froz to death looking for the car in the parkinglot..... Good thing we were of viking-descent or it could have gone really bad.

Anyway, Swedentrip cronologically:

1. Wake up after 1.5 hour sleep (I never can sleep when i am gonna travel)
2. Get happy Bjørg and tired Danni
3. Drive to Keflavik
4. Listen to the new and evil Bjørg (Lets talk slowly to the goju-people)
5. Meet the sleepy crowd at 0600
6. Check in
7. Listen to Gusta lay down a kissing-ban on the trip.
8. Shop
9. Get video of Bjørg going crazy....
10. Watch Gusta get "flightready"..... (She is funny....)
11. Fly in great weather and see lots of cool nature.
12. Land at Arlanda (with a crazy pilot)
13. Taxi to hotel (which icelanders described as so "homy", that the didnt need shoes)
14. Check out downtown Stockholm (Pretty buildings, painful knee)
15. Girls went shopping, boys waited..... (a lot...)
16. Åsa has had too much Powerade..... (again...)
17. Pizza restaurant
18. Sauna and socializing
19. Very tired, sleep.
20. Saturday: Breakfast, walk to competition, register, get info and get rocking.
21. Incredibly well organised competition with 570 contestants. Not a glitch anywhere. Wow.
22. Girls are officially into foreigners..... Germany, England, Norway..... (A)
23. Back to hotel, out for chinesefood.
24. Sensible people go to sleep at around 0100 and less than sane people have too much Powerade and stays up to about 0700......
25. Breakfast, packing, taxi to Arlanda, nice flight home. Congrats to Gusta for flying without getting excessivly funny. (Now u see you can fly without getting very worried.
26. Taxfree in Iceland is way cheaper than abroad so delay shopping until u get here.

Almost forgot a couple of important points: Gunni knows a short and rare version of Empi.... And somebody should tell icelanders to wear shoes in the hotel..... (Or atleast clothes....)

Anyway, thanks to Gunni, Gusta, Andri, Anton, Heida, Dagny, Kristjan, Isak, Danni, Åsa, Tommi and Bjørg for making this a fun weekend. You all saw some amazing kata and know what to do to improve upon this years performance in 2007.

Even later update....

So, internet back on at my place, life is good again....

Since last time, me and Palmar had a demo at the junior national katachampionship. (I won, but will admit it was a bit rigged....) We did 8 sequences from Heian Nidan outlining all the techniques of the kata in a slightly creative way. (Palmar showed the world that they did not miss a new Jack Nicholson.... (Acting-skills-joke) But other than that he did a great job.

Regarding results: KAK cleaned up, bigtime, with Breidablik coming in second place. Very good effort considering how things have been going in earlier years. Congratulations to all the participants.

More competitions..... (No, I am NOT turning into a coach, no matter what you say, though....) Åsa, Dagny, Heida, Danni, Bjørg, Gusta, Tommi and me + Gunni and Isak from Haukar and Andri from KFR is going to Sweden for a giant competition in about a week. Should make for a fun weekend. :-)

(And i promise to update more often.......)