Photos from our 2005 Renshinkan International Competition Trip to Kagoshima, Japan.
   
  The Renshinkan International Competition was covered by Japan TV in the way a U.S. football game is covered.  
   
     
 

Sensei Black was one of the few non-Japanese judges at the Renshinkan Competition. 

 
     
 

Some of the Renshinkan family from Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic and India that we met in Japan.

  
     
 

Members of Heyman's Youth Team with Soke Iwao and his wife at Renshinkan Headquarters dojo in Kagoshima.

  
     
   

Yes, formal Japanese dress is still worn in Japan for special occasions - such as the shipboard party in Kagoshima harbor.  Saki and Tadashi have both spent time in Gainesville training and teaching at Heymans's dojo.

 

 

  
     
 

We look fierce even when we party.

  
     
 

You will have to ask the girls why they wanted their picture taken with the 2005 Renshinkan International grand champion.

  
     
 

Sensei leads secret water training - something to do with barnacles.

  
     
 

Kagoshima.