Luar
03-29-2005, 15:39
Just came back from doing a morning Shorinji Kempo demonstration at the United Nations International School for their Japanese Culture celebration. Lots of fun and the Japanese UN ambassador was there.
There were also other martial arts represented there including Shotokan Karate and Kendo but what was really interesting was that one of the Shotokan students, who eas an elderly Japanese man that was entirely surprised and excited that Shorinji Kempo was represented. Apparently he studied Shorinji Kempo under Kaiso, went as far up as Shodan and when he moved to New York City there was no branch at that time so he switched to Karate. He was just so happy to share with us his memories of Kaiso and he smiled like a little boy as we had triggered so many happy memories.
We have invited him to visit our branch and hope he can tell us more stories.
There were also other martial arts represented there including Shotokan Karate and Kendo but what was really interesting was that one of the Shotokan students, who eas an elderly Japanese man that was entirely surprised and excited that Shorinji Kempo was represented. Apparently he studied Shorinji Kempo under Kaiso, went as far up as Shodan and when he moved to New York City there was no branch at that time so he switched to Karate. He was just so happy to share with us his memories of Kaiso and he smiled like a little boy as we had triggered so many happy memories.
We have invited him to visit our branch and hope he can tell us more stories.