Visit By Chiba Sensei

I would like to take this opportunity on behalf of Colin Pike sensei, to give a big thank you to Chiba sensei and his wife for their visit this August for a short holiday. We were all so pleased to see Chiba sensei and were determined to make his visit as memorable as possible. We all owe Chiba and Colin Sensei for making it possible for to learn aikido.

Colin met Chiba and his wife at the station and with the help of some of his Dan grades (John Franks and Rob Alderman) took him to stay in Colin’s Chalet over looking the sea. It seemed that even the weather respected Chiba sensei as the sun shined for his arrival on Friday. In the evening he came to the dojo to see the children’s class and after, they crowded around to listen to Chiba Sensei and ask him some question, you’d swear that it was Father Christmas that came visiting (laugh).
On the Saturday morning, John and Rob collected Chiba sensei to go on a fishing trip, which had been organised for him on his visit and it appears that they are all avid fishermen. Here Chiba sensei with a Ray he’d caught.

Again the weather stayed fine and good fun was had by all, as the pictures show.


A Dogfish
Here the skipper is telling John and Chiba sensei a joke, I think he came of that fishing trip with many new jokes under his belt, so to say.

The evening ended up with a Chinese meal with Sensei and his wife, Colin and Elaine and a group of us. Didn’t see the Ray on the menu wonder were that went!