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From: Rick kaufman
Date: 13 Jan 2008
Time: 23:52:26 -0500
Remote Name: 69.112.221.1
Today's Doshi Kai was a great experience and for me a tremendous demostration of how the yin & yang of things coexist in life. While we had a very small training session today, perhaps the smallest one I've been to yet, it provided an opportunity to focus on some of the more esoteric principles of our system and despite the number of participants, the session was rich and the benefit was enormous. Sensei Maccarrone's explanation of the gathering and movement of chi energy throughout the body and how to utilize this energy to strengthen and improve kata, as well as support general health and healing, was a great lesson. Today, once again I rediscovered how fortunate we are to have the opportunity to train together and that the size of group has very little to do with the benefits gained. Thank you again to Sensei Maccarrone, Sensei Figgiani, Sensei Ramos and also the other students who shared this great doshi kai today. Finally, I want to express my congratulations to Arianne Bechel on the attainment of her Shodan ranking. This is a great acheivement and I am very happy for her as I know how hard she has trained to acheive this. I know we all missed Hanshi at today's Doshi Kai and wish him a speedy recovery and quick return.