Started off the day with a fiery Japanese breakfast. Then found myself changing trains in Tokushima City, just as they were having their famous “Awa Odori” festival. This is early in the morning so people are quite sober and co-ordinated. They continue like this during the day, drinking more and more beer and sake, until…
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Tokushima, Anan. I often get people saying “How come when you do workshops the teachers answer your questions and actually join in? In my workshops they just sit there nodding even if they don’t understand, hate to make mistakes, they never ask questions and some of them even sleep”. Well, that’s what’s taken me 10…
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I came to this town last year and from what I remember everything was immaculately organised and the teachers were great. Cut to a year later and we decided to do an advanced techniques workshop in the morning and a practical session in the afternoon. It should be tough, but they should be able to…
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This morning was the final day of the Ehime workshop and the difference in the teachers from the “we want to, but can’t do anything” mentality on Monday compared with today was amazing. Some of the lessons today (such as “What are you doing?” ) were better than I do! They really knew how to…
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The teachers did so well yesterday that I started taking some videos today. Here are the first ones, purely by chance mostly to do with the Under the Sea theme! Under the Sea Sticky Fingers Game Nemo Game How much?
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It’s only a couple of years since I started doing the “jissen” workshops where teachers actually teach and then learn from their mistakes. And I think I’ve got quite good at it, what used to take 2 days I can now do in 1. Of course it helps that today’s teachers have been trying to…
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