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Ian Stewart
(Shinsei dojo, Riverhead, Sevenoaks)
What is your martial arts history?
Judo, Tae kwon do, three years Shinseido
What aspects of Shinseido drew you initially?
My wife started training before me and she started to beat me up so
I thought it must be good, so I started training and haven't looked
back since, more importantly I have always been fascinated with the
movement and fluidity of the kata, it has helped me to become
considerably softer and calmer in my everyday life as well as my art.
What about Shinseido holds your continuing interest?
Even though we are shown a relatively short syllabus in Shinseido, there are lots of spiralling avenues of self-discovery.  Every time I train, I always learn something new.
What do you enjoy most and least about Shinseido training?
I find kata very hard because the movement is not natural to me, but I also enjoy the kata because the feeling I get when I click with the movement is very up lifting and positive.
What is your favourite kata and why?
I cant say only one of them is my favourite, the ones I like are - Chinto, Seisan, Shinzen, Tenshu and Tenzen.  And I touched briefly on Rohai, but it was very difficult so I have put that on the shelf till I improve with all the others.
What are your dreams and aspirations regarding Shinseido training?
Firstly to achieve Shodan and then to take my next steps to eventually teaching in my own dojo.
teen and twenty club riverlawn roa  satyrday  10 -12