Dan Harden: IP, aiki and application, UK and Netherlands

[Bodywork]

Okay I'm done. the Date will be May 14th and 15th in London
There is a possible Friday night get together as well
All I am waiting for is the actual address from a certain party who has NOT repsonded to my email
I will put the notice up when I get the address.

[Void]

BLX! Why is everything always in London!

Book me down though please.

[northern_mantis]

BLX! Why is everything always in London!

Book me down though please.

Too right, I can think of at least 546 more favourable locations in the UK, maybe more. Though London is fun if traffic, noise and rude people are your bag!

[Bodywork]

Hey...I'm open we are still looking for a location!

[middleway]

how about the picturesque cotswolds

I would like to book onto this too dan if possible.

all the best
Chris

NOTE: .... SCRATCH THAT ... i CANNOT believe it but thats right in the middle of a 2 week ex i am doing! what a ball ache! next time maybe and i will see if any of my guys would like to go on it.

[Void]

Hey...I'm open we are still looking for a location!

Dan - you should go with wherever and whoever can give you the student base to make up the numbers you need. I don't have a school anymore so sadly can't help in that way.

London is obviously a big body of people so it may well be best for you. I only vented my spleen because, for me, it being in London means 3 days accommodation and some expensive travel to put on top of the cost of the seminar.

Looking forward to seeing you though.

Stephen

[Bodywork]

Hi Guys

LondonWe have 28 signed up but not yet committed
We are having venue difficulties. and are currenlty looking at two other options. I shold have answers by the beginning of the week.
I will keep you posted.

NetherlandsVenue set in Zwolle
24 have signed up but only 8 have committed, Deadline is Feb 15th

Dan

[Void]

Hi Guys

LondonWe have 28 signed up but not yet committed

How do I sign up? and commit?

[yusuf]

i suspect his constant refrain will be 'you suck' to all of us

[Interloper]

I think the paradigm is still the same, but now he is trying to teach it to more than just a few knuckle-draggers who hung out at his barn.

Knuckle-draggers? Some of us were mouth-breathers and mono-syllabic grunters, too.
Frankly, I think that the MA world is becoming a better place now that more people are being exposed to this crucial and long-suppressed access to genuine IS training, taught in a user-friendly manner by someone with an incredibly diverse and deep martial background.

[yusuf]

I think the paradigm is still the same, but now he is trying to teach it to more than just a few knuckle-draggers who hung out at his barn.

Knuckle-draggers? Some of us were mouth-breathers and mono-syllabic grunters, too.

Pardonnez moi, mon cheri, perhaps I exaggerated. Dan is known for the elegance and fastidiousness of his compatriots in training.

a little less trupmeting sir...i've seen you drink

[yusuf]

err... elegant and fastidious... errr.. i would suggest the swaying does not contribute to that image....


suffice to say that young MArtin has refused to come out after that evening. I suspect he may be at home working on both his drinking capacity and pi quan, given the table was left intact and the women left 'unchatted-up'

[canard]

i am nothing if not cognisantly incongruent with any memory of any elegance in the sipping of any MacAllan.
Lesbians putting on a show on the sidewalk, however......now that I remember.

[Martin]

Having determined that pi jin (in addition to charm, memory and possibly sanity) is inversely proportional to the quantity Chimay Blue consumed, I am trying to test the relationships between other jins and other beverages. I have high hopes for beng and Balblair, but will require more time to assemble a statistically decent sample

[Bodywork]

...i've seen you drink

Elegant and fastidious, non? As I recall, I did most of my drinking at the bar, swiftly and before le canard was fully cognizant of how much MacAllan I sucked down, er, sipped elegantly, and when I came back to the table your face was plastered against the window ogling the lasses at the sidewalk tables (as I would have been, if I didn't like MacAllan 18 so much). Most of the rest of the session at that particular London venue was spent watching bottles of Belgian ale dance around as Martin tried to piquan the table in two. He's a curious lad--pinstriped yet so violent. Ah, the contradictions of the British character . . .

I am sitting here with a bottle of Duvel, Westmalle, and Leffe and when I mentioned Belgian Ale" my host. aghast...saïd "Stop swearing at me.
Im so glad to have survived the Sven!!!
I think if they dropped the Sven on Afghanistan, everyone would drop their rifles and run!

Netherlands was hands down the funniest group of people I have ever met. Everyday we laughed til we cried and our cheeks hurt. Serious training of course, but what a group!!
Toured the Giethoorn canals!! Oh MY.
Off to more training till tonight!
See ya all soon. I am arriving In England, Thursday at 5:30 gatwick airport. anyone want to hook up?
CHeers
Dan