Stories of Nanbudo seminars

This year it took this long to make my first nanbudo trip abroad. My destination was the "Norwegian twin seminar", meaning Oslo and Skien seminars in early sum...

I heard that in Oslo they thought that shortening the seminar would attract more foreigners. I really can't tell, but at least for me that just might have...

Quorter hundred! That means that if I'm not mistaken, this is the 25th seminar raport I am writing. Many months has passed since the seminar and I have to dig ...

How come it's so cold and rainy? This was supposed to be the Spanish summer!</...

The last destination of my spring time travelling was Skien. Durin the end of winter I had bought flights to Switzerland and Slovenia, but postponed the purcha...

I took me a while to recover from the Zurich seminar due to some digestional problems, but eventually I got things in order again. I wasn't sure wether it woul...

Fascinated by the Hungarian seminar, I did some serious flight booking for this spring. I had three seminars on my mind: Zurich, Ljubljana and Skien. I bought ...

Already when buying the flights to Budapest I felt bad for not being able to attend all trainings of the seminar. I had some school obligations and thus could ...

Unlike in previous years, this year the traditional Pakkasleiri (Frozy Camp) was held in and around Helsinki. While this changed the usual atmosphere of livi...

Finally France. I have been traveling around the Europe to attend nanbudo seminars for almost six years and finally I made it here. I had heard so much good ab...

Nanbu budo university inauguration seminar. This fine title crowned the Zagreb seminar. Around the nanbudo circles there had been some discussion abou...

It has been too many years since I went to Playa de Aro for a nanbudo seminar. It has been the same for many years: I have been looking forward to attend both ...

My original idea about these two seminars was to take Paavo with me to check out how are things in Norway. It turned out that Paavo was about to have some entr...

Sunny Saturday could be spent by practising indoors while sweating or by laying on the beach. As usual I went for the former, thus the day was spent in the Tur...

My first seminar with Nanbu doshu-soke was in Kecskemet. That was some time ago, since it's not even mentioned in my current nanbudo passport. For quite a long...

After having skipped Frozy Camp last year, I gladly accepted this year's invitation to Pakkasleiri, a traditional winter seminar organized by Finnish Nanbudo F...

I arrived to the Turku bus station a bit before 4 am. Kalle was there already waiting for me in the platform where our bus to Helsinki was about to leave. The ...

It has been long time since my last visit to Oslo Karate Club. Even though I worker during the daytime I was working at the local branch office of my company h...

Strange laws control the attendance to international seminars. The most obvious ones are work related, but there are sure some mysterious and unknown behind as...

I thought I would never take part on a nanbudo seminar in Slovenia again. But I did.</...

The year 2008 was on behalf of seminars quite quiet for me, at least excluding the later part of it. For sure I don't hope 2009 to be the same. My original pla...

Even though I'm invited to every single Pakkasleiri, I usually cannot manage to come. But as I'm skipping Spain this year, Finland suddenly seemed a pretty goo...

Having a quiet year before Bosnia-Herzegovina I found my self excited about going into some other seminar as well until the end of the year. Due to my work I c...

I already thought that this year 2008 would pass on my behalf without a single seminar directed by Yoshinao Nanbu Doshu-Soke. In the spring I was supposed to a...

It was a bit past mid day when I arrived to the agreed meeting place in front of the Turku Cathedral. Two other nanbudokas had arrived, Jukka and Kalle. On the...

Travelling is at its best when it has a purpose like a martial art seminar. Taking part at several seminars each year opens my eyes not just within Nanbudo its...

On the 3rd of January 2008, I started my trip to Finland from the newly named Slovenian airport of Joze Pucnik. It took a little over two hours of quiet flying...

The last post on my year's end seminar adventure of 2007 was the annual Christmas stage in Zagreb. Being such a cheap guy I bought my flights from Norway to Cr...

By tradition, twice a year there is a seminar in Skien led by Nanbu Doshu-Soke, one in the early June, the other in early December. This year was no exception ...

It has already been half a year since I last time went abroad to fetch some additional boost to training motivation and see my international friends. I have be...

The second International Nanbudo seminar held in Banja Luka gathered Nanbudokas mainly from Eastern Europe.</...

In the Saturday morning we gathered with a small group of nanbudokas on a small private beach in Hirvensalo, an island in the Archipelagos in South-West Finlan...

Already two weeks has passed since I returned home from my great Norwegian voyage. And those two weeks I have been suffering from flu. I got it in my last nigh...

It's always the same. In seminar trips life condenses. This time I had some problems writing about the seminar. Basically that's because the seminar itself was...

Traditional Christmas seminar of Croatian Nanbudo Federation was held in the guidance of Yoshinao Nanbu doshu.</...

Phew is all that I can say. I have such a week behind that it probably takes a little bit longer to get back into normal. Even though I don't even want to get ...

The first international Nanbudo seminar held in Bosnia-Herzegovina had participants from several countries where Nanbudo is being practisted. There were Nanbud...

The first training session started at Monday morning when sun rose from the horizon. Heat and brightness were tough for a girl who is used to Finnish cold clim...

When everybody managed to get themselves into seminar area, the trainings started almost straight away. We trained ukemis on ice, which was nice experiment, b...

The tradition Christmas stage seminar in Croatia is most of all home for Puma Super 9 competition. In this competiotion nine best nanbudokas of the world compe...

The most unforgettable event of the summer - seminar that took place in the Playa d'Aro beach - left behind a will to see again people met there and to train a...

Ah, Playa de Aro. The most important event of Nanbudo year and thus the most important meeting point for Nanbudo people. From the beginning this event has give...

This year the camp in the Archipelagos was held near by the old castle ruin of the priest of Kuusisto. This place is located in the Archipelagos of Turku in Fi...

Participation to this seminar conducted by the founder, Yoshinao Nanbu doshu, was an easy decision as my current location is in Pavia, Italy, only some three h...

Seminar reports have some special meaning. They create some content into our website, but first and foremost writing them provides a change to look back into t...

With awe we awaited the Frozy Camp. The venue was assured on the last minute, and it took even longer to confirm that there would actually be sub zero temperat...

In Friday, before the seminar officially started, I arrived to Ljubljana by train from Italy. After a moment in the train station, Steven Laverty from Scotland...

My second time in the biggest seminar of the year, in Playa de Aro, Spain, started in Sunday morning when I arrived to Girona bus station from Italy. I had mad...

The first Frozy Camp was held in the Archipelagos of Turku, on the frozen sea, near Rymättylä.</...

It is always easy to come to Skien, specially if I've been in Oslo for the last week. Jan Moen left earlier from Oslo with his new Harley-Davidson motorbike, b...

I arrived to the rainy Gardermoen airport near Oslo in Monday afternoon and took a train (140 NOK) to Oslo centre. In the centre I quickly bought myself a week...

The seminar began in Monday and as the tradition in Oslo, it is also here in Skien to have Yoshinao Nanbu doshu coming every summer and winter for a one week l...

I arrived to the Oslo Gardermoen airport in Sunday evening. In order to avoid all kind of jet lagging, I arrived one day prior to the start of the seminar. A b...

The first Nanbudo seminar in Finland began in the Saturday morning at the sports hall of the Järvenpää vocational school. The seminar continued until the Su...

The first time when a Finnish Nanbudoka entered the annual main seminar of the year, in Playa de Aro, Spain, was the Summer 2001. It is indeed not the firs...

My first seminar with the founder of Nanbudo, Yoshinao Nanbu doshu, began in Monday 28th in Oslo, but the trip began two days earlier from Turku, Finland. In t...