In November 2008 Kaicho Tamas Weber and one of his senior students, Ken Bokelius, had the honour to be the guests of Soke Minamide of the Renseikai Japan in Osaka. Tamas and Soke Minamide are friends since early karate days.

The standard at Renseikai dojos was very high and the members were really friendly and helpfull.

Besides training in Osaka area there was time to visit Osaka Castle, Todaiji Temple, Nara Park and eat wonderful traditional Japanese food. Soke Minamide and his Shihans gave a fantastic welcome and even a more fantastic stay.

Hopefully this was not the last visit to the very friendly Soke Minamide and his dojos and we hope to see members from Renseikai in Sweden in a near future.

Soke Minamide and Tamas discussing bunkai....

After a wonderful time with Renseikai it was time to follow Sanshin Kans student Aleksandar Subosic in the World Championship in Tokyo together with the other members of the Swedish national team. Aleks in Tokyo >>>