JSKA Spain Course

With Shihan Abe 8th dan JSKA

and

John Mullin 6th dan

April/May 2005

		Sensei Harrison, Sonja and Joe
Our Hotel		out of season hotel pool
			Alicante Harbour
		Alicante beach

Training was held on the 29th 7.30pm to 9pm

30th 10am to 11.30am, 12pm to 1pm, 5pm to 6.30pm and 6.30pm to 7.30pm

There was also a lesson for ref/judge, 7.30pm to finish.

These lesson were well attended and I felt that the 3 of us from the UK

put a lot of effort into our training.

The JSKA Spain held a national championship on the 1st May but this was only open

to students from Spain, thus we did not take part in this event or the lesson after.

Maybe because of the language barrier their was some confusion. It was clear however

that we could not take part in the championship, but may have been ok to train

in the end of championship lesson.

Our hotel while fine was distinctively lack of facilities due to it not being high season. The pool in the brochure certainly didn't meet expectations. The bar when it opened seemed to close a lot earlier than we would have liked considering the lack of facilities in the area. On a good point the hotel was right next to where we trained.

We were well away from the centre and of course the main beach. Both of which Sonja seemed happy to walk too.