This year Gen'Dai travelled over to see our friends in Seeheim, Germany for a 4 day tour. We were also joined by our friends from Curam de Cara, Ireland.

As well as meeting old friends and making new friends, we had a selection of fantastic training sessions from Sensei's Dave Shipton, Karl Heinz and Liam O'Griffin covering many diverse areas of martial arts. These included kata and bunkai, kumite, ju ippon, ju jitsu grappling techniques and other unique techniques we had never experienced before.

Day 3 -

Today brought another training session with Sensei Karl Heinz. This session introduced completely new concepts to most of the students that involved blocking and striking your opponent using your hand 'like a sword'. This involved taking the 'open hand' meaning of karate literally. This session was fantastic and completely different to any way we have trained before.
The session was followed by a football tournament, which unfortunately followed the success of Ireland last year - a loss!
Evening brought a BBQ that saw everyone winding down after a hard weekend of training.

Day 4 -

Today, was a sightseeing day as we were picked up by coach to see the city of Heidelberg. We were taken on a guided tour of Heidelberg Castle and did a spot of shopping and lunch in the town centre.
This was followed by goodbyes to our new friends as we travelled to the airport to start our journey back home.

This trip was absolutely fantastic! As well as making some new friends and meeting old ones we had the opportunity to experience some world class training from all of the Sensei's. Gen'Dai would like to say a big thankyou to everyone in Germany for making our stay so enjoyable and we can't wait until next year when you come over to sunny England to visit us!