It is a special practice for Aikido called "Gasshuku" in Japanese.
The subject this year was the Aikido shoving technique called "The Aiki-zuki". This was a very hard. Our teacher said that the shoving can rupture kidney or liver. If you scared to do this practice, I allowed you to be absent. But almost all my friends were present.

[1st day]
I left my home at 9:00 in my friend's car, and I arrived at 10:30 at Lake Kawaguchi. It was rainy, so we didn't go anywhere until our other friends came and we spend a time in the car.
All our friends arrived at 11:30, we had lunch near restaurant.
After checking in our hotel, we practiced the basic technique (Kokyu-ho, Ashi-sabaki, Te-sabaki) and Jo-sabaki (the stick for Aikido) technique between 14:00~17:00.
We had to throw out an opponent 100 times and to be thrown out by an opponent 100 times in last practice.

After dinner, we played with fire works in a near park like children.
After that, we discussed about the today's practice over a drink.

[2nd day]

All day we practiced the basic technique (Irimi, and Kotegaeshi)and Jo-sabaki technique. We had to throw out an opponent 130 times and to be thrown out by an opponent 130 times in last practice.

[3rd day]
In the morning, we had to a lecture about basic Aikido teaching by our teacher. After lunch, we got main practice. It was the study for Tsuki and Kiri (Kill=Cutting body) Aikido special technique.
We had to throw out an opponent 100 times and to be thrown out by an opponent 100 times in last practice.

[4th day]
We went home after checking out in the morning.

We passed through "The Aikido special program" with only little trouble (2 only friends had to go to the hospital). One injured neck and one injured leg.

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