The Budonkan itself is a great venue with seating for ~14,000, it was built in 1964 at a cost of 2 Billion Yen. It has an octagonal structure that provides a great atmoshphere and equally good views all round, two minutes walk from Kundanshita Subway. The event started with some speaches and then a group Rei, then followed four hours of demonstrations from various groups and senior instructors. Most of the demos were 1.5 minutes long with some of the instructors demos being a little longer. The final demo was performed by the Doshu. Eight deshi of Nemoto Sensei performed and it was one of the better demonstrations, keeping fairly good awase throughout (I will let you spot the mistakes for yourself).
The Shibu Dojo Group had a group performance, which went well. Three of the instructors also had demonstrations, Inagaki Sensei, Owada Sensei and Watahiki Sensei (not filmed as was on at the same time as Inagaki Sensei). All of their demonstrations went well. The ukes for Inagaki are two uchideshi from Myanmar and Enzo who is from New York - the ichiban uchideshi from Shibu Dojo. You should be able to recognise them from the TV performance shown in an earlier post.
Inagaki Sensei:
Owada Sensei:
This clip is especially for Lara:
Last but not least the Doshu demonstration:
It was a great day, we all really enjoyed ourselves.
