Haru Seminar, Utrecht, Netherlands March 2016

Last weekend Will and Rafal attended the Haru Seminar in Utrecht. Matsuoka Sensei led the two day seminar teaching Zen Nihon Kendo Renmei Iaido on the Saturday and Shinkage Ryu Iaido on the Sunday. It was a fantastic seminar and lovely reunion with the European Shinkage Family. Many thanks indeed to Matsuoka Sensei for his patience and wonderful teaching, to David Smits for all his efforts (organising and translating), his Mum and Dad for their help with the Konshinkai (party), to all the Netherlands Shinkage guys who helped with the organisation and feeding us at lunch time, to Aad Sensei for his assistance teaching on Saturday and to Yuki Kanto for her translation on Saturday. Lastly, to David Merinero for the fantastic photographs (some 1000 or so now on Facebook!). A small selection of his work here: