Lori,
Thanks again for playing interpreter for us this weekend. You made it so much easier for all of us. An unexpected chore no doubt, but one widely appreciated.
mike
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Mike,
Fue un placer! (it was a pleasure) - Seriously - I was happy to help - and actually was pleased to be able to contribute in some small way. I was not going to come to camp (as most of you know by now a spinal cord injury is keeping me from having much fun these days) as I did not see the point if I could not participate - but the unexpected way to facilitate communication changed that feeling very quickly. As I mentioned in Len's thread on this forum, I came away from camp enriched in ways other than I expected.
At first watching everyone work out got me more frustrated at my own inabilty to participate - but as time wore on, via translating, a FABULOUS Thai massage by the wonderful Margaret Chojin, my first (OHMYGOD) acupuncture treatment, the thrills of translating at an IUKF meeting (double OHMYGOD) and meeting all the great people there, seeing old friends, a chance to see once more one of my students who recently moved to the opposite coast, and more memories than I can recount here ... I found that there is so much more to camp than just cramming in all the seminars possible. In fact, I am at this point actually thankful (did I actually say that?) that I could NOT work out! If I could, I would have been dragging myself (dragging because I can hardly bear to leave one seminar to start another one - then the process repeats itself) from one class to the next until dropping in exhaustion - and still feeling like I missed so much! You can NEVER fit it all in at camp - and this injury forced me to see the other offerings of summer camp - offerings I might have missed otherwise.
Glad I had the opportunity to translate as this was one of the things I probably wouldn't have been as available for had I been working out... by chance I was there to help when needed and glad to do it. Being a "stranger in a strange land" myself some years past - I know all too well how the bridging of a gap with an intermediary language can change an entire outlook of a trip...
Anyway - great meeting you Mike - and everyone else there - renewing old acquaintances and making new ones - I hope to see all of you again at Winterfest! And Mary and Lori and all you Canadians - it was awesome to meet you face to face - you guys are even better in person - I can't wait for your next camp - God willing and the creek don't rise (too much!) I'll be able to get there and even work out a little if I'm very very lucky!
Thanks to all who were at camp - I'm so glad I went!
Lori
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Fue un placer! (it was a pleasure) - Seriously - I was happy to help - and actually was pleased to be able to contribute in some small way. I was not going to come to camp (as most of you know by now a spinal cord injury is keeping me from having much fun these days) as I did not see the point if I could not participate - but the unexpected way to facilitate communication changed that feeling very quickly. As I mentioned in Len's thread on this forum, I came away from camp enriched in ways other than I expected.
At first watching everyone work out got me more frustrated at my own inabilty to participate - but as time wore on, via translating, a FABULOUS Thai massage by the wonderful Margaret Chojin, my first (OHMYGOD) acupuncture treatment, the thrills of translating at an IUKF meeting (double OHMYGOD) and meeting all the great people there, seeing old friends, a chance to see once more one of my students who recently moved to the opposite coast, and more memories than I can recount here ... I found that there is so much more to camp than just cramming in all the seminars possible. In fact, I am at this point actually thankful (did I actually say that?) that I could NOT work out! If I could, I would have been dragging myself (dragging because I can hardly bear to leave one seminar to start another one - then the process repeats itself) from one class to the next until dropping in exhaustion - and still feeling like I missed so much! You can NEVER fit it all in at camp - and this injury forced me to see the other offerings of summer camp - offerings I might have missed otherwise.
Glad I had the opportunity to translate as this was one of the things I probably wouldn't have been as available for had I been working out... by chance I was there to help when needed and glad to do it. Being a "stranger in a strange land" myself some years past - I know all too well how the bridging of a gap with an intermediary language can change an entire outlook of a trip...
Anyway - great meeting you Mike - and everyone else there - renewing old acquaintances and making new ones - I hope to see all of you again at Winterfest! And Mary and Lori and all you Canadians - it was awesome to meet you face to face - you guys are even better in person - I can't wait for your next camp - God willing and the creek don't rise (too much!) I'll be able to get there and even work out a little if I'm very very lucky!
Thanks to all who were at camp - I'm so glad I went!
Lori
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Lori San,
Please pardon the delay in forwarding my many thanks for translation for me as well. And even though you're participation in the seminars was curtailed your sharing was yet another heartbeat of this great event.
Thank you very much.
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Please pardon the delay in forwarding my many thanks for translation for me as well. And even though you're participation in the seminars was curtailed your sharing was yet another heartbeat of this great event.
Thank you very much.
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Hay there!
I had been dissappointed when I found out you would not be at camp this year. What a suprise it was when Sensei Canna called me over to introduce me to you. It was so great to finally meet you face to face.I only wish there had been more time to sit and chat but I get the feeling our paths may very well cross again and I will look forward to it.
In the mean time ,take care of yourself and tell that Tony-San that we miss him.
Lori M-D
I had been dissappointed when I found out you would not be at camp this year. What a suprise it was when Sensei Canna called me over to introduce me to you. It was so great to finally meet you face to face.I only wish there had been more time to sit and chat but I get the feeling our paths may very well cross again and I will look forward to it.
In the mean time ,take care of yourself and tell that Tony-San that we miss him.
Lori M-D
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Please include me on this too. Lori it was a pleasure to meet you this weekend and my only regret is that we didn't have more time to chat. Yes in deed, Tony and I are already talking of Winterfest and I'm hoping to come a bit early so that we'll have more time to talk and workout!!!! Thanks to being a wonderful part of my weekend at camp. Hopefully we'll see each other soon!
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Evan Sensei,
Thank you for the kind words - I was happy to translate the sentiments of our Argentino brothers - which echo my own admiration of your technique and teaching abilities! It was a pleasure to watch - if only from the sidelines - I hope I can recall half of what I saw via the kyusho seminars - and your demonstration of the seisan kata with kyusho applications was very impressive - I now have the dubious distinction of being the narrator for a video of your seminar that will be shown in dojos in Argentina!
It WAS very difficult not to participate - but I know I am the richer for the experience - even from this different perspective!
A pleasure to renew our acquaintance and I sincerely look forward to the next time!
Lori
Thank you for the kind words - I was happy to translate the sentiments of our Argentino brothers - which echo my own admiration of your technique and teaching abilities! It was a pleasure to watch - if only from the sidelines - I hope I can recall half of what I saw via the kyusho seminars - and your demonstration of the seisan kata with kyusho applications was very impressive - I now have the dubious distinction of being the narrator for a video of your seminar that will be shown in dojos in Argentina!
It WAS very difficult not to participate - but I know I am the richer for the experience - even from this different perspective!
A pleasure to renew our acquaintance and I sincerely look forward to the next time!
Lori
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Lori and Mary,
May I say it goes DOUBLE for me! I told Tony today (poor boy is sick about not being able to go - much as I knew I would be if I didn't get there!) that something about you guys really "clicked" with me - and I do wish we'd had a bit more time to chat. But that is the way of camp! We count ourselves lucky getting to do all the things we did - and I admit - I cut out a bit early on the evening festivities as there is only so much time I can be up and around before my back starts screaming louder than I can ignore. I was heartened (if not a bit jealous) to see such formidable female practitioners at camp - and much as I wanted to get out there and form a female contingent of uechi-ka women (I have plans for next year!!) the spirit was more than willing but this damn injury kept the flesh weak. Meanwhile I was glad to see such great examples of the female side of Uechi-ryu represented at camp. You both have an open invitation to my dojo and my home (Tony offers his house too!) and I sincerely hope to see both of you AND more from your dojo at Winterfest. Also my prayers are with Dave Hunt sensei - although I do not know him personally his reputation reaches even down here to the redneck Riviera and I wish him a full and speedy recovery.
Again - great to meet the whole Canadian bunch - you guys live up to all I've heard about you and more! Can't wait to see you all again - soon to work out with you I hope! (after a few more lifetimes of rehab... but there will come a day!)
Lori
May I say it goes DOUBLE for me! I told Tony today (poor boy is sick about not being able to go - much as I knew I would be if I didn't get there!) that something about you guys really "clicked" with me - and I do wish we'd had a bit more time to chat. But that is the way of camp! We count ourselves lucky getting to do all the things we did - and I admit - I cut out a bit early on the evening festivities as there is only so much time I can be up and around before my back starts screaming louder than I can ignore. I was heartened (if not a bit jealous) to see such formidable female practitioners at camp - and much as I wanted to get out there and form a female contingent of uechi-ka women (I have plans for next year!!) the spirit was more than willing but this damn injury kept the flesh weak. Meanwhile I was glad to see such great examples of the female side of Uechi-ryu represented at camp. You both have an open invitation to my dojo and my home (Tony offers his house too!) and I sincerely hope to see both of you AND more from your dojo at Winterfest. Also my prayers are with Dave Hunt sensei - although I do not know him personally his reputation reaches even down here to the redneck Riviera and I wish him a full and speedy recovery.
Again - great to meet the whole Canadian bunch - you guys live up to all I've heard about you and more! Can't wait to see you all again - soon to work out with you I hope! (after a few more lifetimes of rehab... but there will come a day!)
Lori
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Thank-you Lori,
You may live to regret that invitation!
I was talking to Tony via e-mail this afternoon about Winterfest. Do you have any info on dates and location as of yet?
I would love to get down there and really get a chance to work out with you and get to know all of you better.
I also was a bit under the weather this week-end.I was, unfortunatly not able to partake in the infamous "TC Class"
,but I can assure you that watching and listening to Sensei Canna is definatly the next best thing!!!
Keep us posted on the Winterfest info and we'll see what happens.
Thank-you also for your thoughts and wishes to Sensei Hunt. I understand that he is "coming along".(that's a do-jo inside joke). I will pass these wishes on to him tonight when I see him.
Lori M-D
You may live to regret that invitation!
I was talking to Tony via e-mail this afternoon about Winterfest. Do you have any info on dates and location as of yet?
I would love to get down there and really get a chance to work out with you and get to know all of you better.
I also was a bit under the weather this week-end.I was, unfortunatly not able to partake in the infamous "TC Class"
,but I can assure you that watching and listening to Sensei Canna is definatly the next best thing!!!Keep us posted on the Winterfest info and we'll see what happens.
Thank-you also for your thoughts and wishes to Sensei Hunt. I understand that he is "coming along".(that's a do-jo inside joke). I will pass these wishes on to him tonight when I see him.
Lori M-D
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Lori: I must admit that I was quite taken by your easy manner and outgoing personality. Stay well and train hard.
Regards, Rich
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Rich-san,
It was indeed a pleasure to meet you in person - and I was quite remiss in not congratulating you "real time" on your upcoming father-son adventure. Putting faces to the names and also to the topics on these forums proved a bit too much for my concussed (?) brain with all the activity of the weekend. I was glad however that we did have the opportunity to share a meal and talk a bit at camp. Thanks for the well wishes!
Lori-san,
Can never regret an invite to workout with Canadians from what I understand! Seriously - you guys have quite a rep down here and I'm looking forward to a northern invasion for Winterfest! Thanks Sensei for posting the dates - Orlando is quite a vacation capital of the world folks - so plan now - send the family to Disney World while you experience some world-class karate... last year the group was small but stellar - and because of the smaller groups, opportunity for intense one-on-one with the fabulous presenters is not to be missed! You get even more chance to work out than summer camp!
I'll be there - hopefully out of my wheelchair (joking folks) and watching if not able to participate yet - this rehab instead of surgery route is incredibly slow - but worth it to me... even if I have to suffer watching you guys have all the fun for a while! But I'll be back eventually... count on it!
See you all in January - and here many times before then - again it was great to meet many of you face to face.
Peace,
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It was indeed a pleasure to meet you in person - and I was quite remiss in not congratulating you "real time" on your upcoming father-son adventure. Putting faces to the names and also to the topics on these forums proved a bit too much for my concussed (?) brain with all the activity of the weekend. I was glad however that we did have the opportunity to share a meal and talk a bit at camp. Thanks for the well wishes!
Lori-san,
Can never regret an invite to workout with Canadians from what I understand! Seriously - you guys have quite a rep down here and I'm looking forward to a northern invasion for Winterfest! Thanks Sensei for posting the dates - Orlando is quite a vacation capital of the world folks - so plan now - send the family to Disney World while you experience some world-class karate... last year the group was small but stellar - and because of the smaller groups, opportunity for intense one-on-one with the fabulous presenters is not to be missed! You get even more chance to work out than summer camp!
I'll be there - hopefully out of my wheelchair (joking folks) and watching if not able to participate yet - this rehab instead of surgery route is incredibly slow - but worth it to me... even if I have to suffer watching you guys have all the fun for a while! But I'll be back eventually... count on it!
See you all in January - and here many times before then - again it was great to meet many of you face to face.
Peace,
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Lori...tried to send you an email yesterday and received no response...hopefully that only means you didn't get it!!! :-) Ask Tony for my email at home and write me please. I would very much like to stay in touch. See you for sure in January.
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Hey! You all are talking about me!!!
Susie says we've got room for 4. I can get an air mattress and have room for 2 more. I'm thinking anyone who stays here, we can all chip in and rent a van to commute back and forth to O town. Of course, we won't even leave the house until all my guests have had their first cup of Joe with my shiny new Saeco Magic De Luxe Espresso/Coffee Machine:
Susie says we've got room for 4. I can get an air mattress and have room for 2 more. I'm thinking anyone who stays here, we can all chip in and rent a van to commute back and forth to O town. Of course, we won't even leave the house until all my guests have had their first cup of Joe with my shiny new Saeco Magic De Luxe Espresso/Coffee Machine:
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To heck with my place - we'll all stay with you Tony! There's room at the dojo for overflow too - one pull out sofa and sleeping bags could do in a pinch - it isn't the Ritz but it's a lot cheaper than a hotel! (We even let Doctor X stay there once!)
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I'll be thinking about you all enjoying your "specialty" brew in the morning as I make do with mere Dunkin Donut coffee!
Maybe Tony can be persuaded to bring a big thermos for those of us staying in the big "O".
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Maybe Tony can be persuaded to bring a big thermos for those of us staying in the big "O".
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