seminar day 2

A bit of a late start in the morning as some of the more hung-over straggled in, buy by 9:30 we were back in fine form. We ran through the first ten kata just to refresh, then got into the next five seated kata, goka. Tony and everyone did there best to fly high on the last form hazumi, and then it was time for lunch.
This time we took a burrito break and had sandwhiches. Hoshina-sensei's BLT was the size of her thigh, but she managed to chomp most of it down.
In the afternoon we did the last five kata, hashirigakari and the grabbed the wooden swords again for some final paired practice, doing the five kumitachi.
By 4:30 everyone was tired but smiling, the seminar a success.
We went to Islands for giant burgers, and again Hoshina-san polished off a huge Tuna-salad burger before we hit the highway and drove back up to Tony's. We packed up the rest of our stuff and translated some Japanese texts for Tony, including the two Nakagawa Mugairyu books he copied from my copies and some entries in the Daijten of martial arts about KashimaShinto-ryu. Then we got back on the road and headed into LA, getting back to Doheny Plaza about midnight. After a minor crisis involving a backed up toilet and a search for a plunger, we hit the sack for some much needed sleep.

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