Most exotic outpost of Shorinji Kempo?
This thought just struck me recently:
what is the most exotic outpost of Shorinji Kempo?
So here's the question, where is it?
Just to get u an idea, that's what Dave Noble imagined when musing on where our club might be
" Hhmmmm, where would Ade like to spend a week's holidays?
I picture a wooden floor, Grass thatch roof, with open sides. A white sandy beach extends for miles with azure blue sea and white surf on one side, palm trees and coconuts on the other.
Someone blows on a Conch shell. Sleepy heads lift up from the sand, someone falls out of their hammock. Three dudes ride their last breaker in toward shore, "hanging ten". One girl is brushing the sand off her beach mat and turning it inside out, it used to be an Ozaki Dogi.
The barman at the beach bar starts to tidy up the glasses and takes them to the sink, he knows they'll all be back right after training (some of the older ones might sneak away early, as usual, so he lines up the Bacardi bottle and puts some Coke on ice).
As the class all gather, some are chatting about the waves, some are still waking up, some are still trying to get the sand from out of their dreadlocks.
"Like, hey dudes, let's start, OK?"
"Sure Man, let's go for it"
"Woah, hey wait a minute... I can't find my pants."
"No worries, just use your wet-suit Dude"
"Like, hey, let's do some Taiso, 'K?"
Someone slips a James Brown CD in the Boogie Box and the gang start to shake their thangs and thongs to "Get up". The girl in the Dogi is still trying to fit the safety pin that holds the jacket closed (she had an Obi, but it now holds one end of the hammock to the coconut tree). The locals are observing the ritual. They are bemused.
Just then, a Jeepney arrives, covered in tassles, mirrors and a thousand bells. This one carries a rather pale visitor carrying a Do, some mitts, a Manji scroll and a pressed white dogi (his midnight blue 100% wool Hoi is back at the hotel)."
ok, we're in Berlin Not exotic, but rare
PS: Dear Dave, I hope you don't claim any copyright fees, since I like this one so much I intend to spread it further
Andrej Mantei
Shorinji Kempo, Humboldt-University Berlin Branch
disclaimer: I deny everything, it was THE OTHERS(TM) again.