Friday 31 July we all met at the UP Sports Centre at 4pm & had to wait, as usual for people to arrive!
We got on our way & lost the second bus twice, so we drove extremely slow on the way there! We eventually got there, had a general meeting with every one, set up the schedule of events & everyone got into their sleeping places with some arranging of furniture & then had dinner.
6am the junior instructors got the first training on the way. After this the rain came. Sikelele was full of mud… as in everywhere!
After this Sensei Soon took a class on the finer details of oi-zuki, age-uke & soto-uke, which was followed by breakfast. After that he started a class on explosive techniques, which I continued as Sensei had to get back to Pretoria.
After lunch the junior instructors took them for kata & I was roped in to do Bassai-dai. Space was an issue, as we could not go outside because of the rain & the mud… after kata class Sensei Hennie made them do races for team spirit.
All in all the bootcamp went well.
The seniors all got together on the last night & had a good social gathering…
The final morning both buses were stuck in the mud & we had all the junior instructors & more adult karateka pushing the buses out. This was very entertaining!
We arrived at home 10 minutes early to find every ones loved ones.
Thank you to Sensei Soon, Sensei Reon, Sensei Hennie, Sensei Jaap & all the junior instructors for this awesome Bootcamp.
This weekend Bryan, Wesley, Sherilee & I are off to Port Elizabeth for the KSA senior champs… which will be followed by my birthday party. I am so glad I am going to see my family again!
Anyway cheers!
