After last year’s adventure on Cocev Kamen, this year the Warriors of Bujinkan Macedonia had the opportunity to perfect their survival skills near the waterfall Dlabocica on the mountain of Kozjak.
Located in pristine nature, between mountains and forests which with their beauty take the breath away, the waterfall was the ideal place to connect with nature, which is the point of this seminar. 
After the event ended, two of the participants shared on the Forum their impressions:
“The weather was not on our side during this seminar, but that too is part of our events. If the weather is nice and pretty, then how shall we forge ourselves into Warriors?
Comfort never brought true character to the surface. During the entire trek to the location where we were to make camp it was raining. Mud and water everywhere, and we with smiles and impatient – to see the magical place. The road itself was like out of a samurai movie. The rain, clouds and fog created a sort of magical atmosphere while we were walking. Those images are forever ingrained into my memory and I will always carry them with me. There are no word to describe that beauty. After a three hour trek, we arrived in a place that was truly majestic. I stood in front of the waterfall and was dumbstruck for a moment, I wanted to remember this moment forever.
Slowly we gathered around and Sensei immediately gave us tasks because the situation demanded work and only work for the necessary conditions to be secured for survival in this place. We made a temporary camp and two fires that gave us a lot of trouble till we got them going. 
The work around the fire, the preparing and building of the shelter brought us even closer together and everybody worked hard and studiously. Here I would like to praise all those that took part in this kind of seminar for the first time. The truly helped a lot and I hope that we will see each other frequently on these kinds of seminars.
The night left us undisturbed by rain. Everything went as it should have and I am sure that everybody enjoyed their sleep and their guard hours.
The next day we were greeted by beautiful sunshine. Again we took to work and food making. The food on these seminars, may look to others like torture and starvation, but for us it is a feast that nothing on this world can replace.
Before starting back, we cleaned up the place where we camped and returned in to its natural state, and afterwards we went off to carefully gather forest fruits, tea herbs and mushrooms. Here nature provided a bounty, as if forest fruit came from the sky in buckets. Cherry, raspberry, strawberry, plums and what not. We got enough vitamins to last us for a year.
After the ‘feast’ and the lecture on herbs form Sensei, we had to start back (sadly)…
The way back is harder. We had to say goodbye to a beautiful place in which we could only stay a short while, and it gave us so much. The next day was spent daydreaming and wishing to go back. We have to visit it again! Bujinkan Macedonia forever in our hearts!” – Vladimir Antonovski. 
“It is hard to forget the feeling, while you sleep, on your right side a burning fire caresses you, and on the left you hear the soft rumble of the waterfall Dlabocica. It cannot be described! You simply have to go there, to fill your eyes with this beauty.
I am happy that my first seminar was of this character with a topic that everyone has to experience at least once in their lives. A great challenge, during which, I learned of ways to maintain a fire, but also how to make the tastiest yeast-free ninja bread with pepper and salt. And their taste was better than anything, because they were prepared by the hands of a group of wonderful people who had an enormous drive to teach you and with a warm hearth ready to help at a moment’s notice.
I learned also how to build a shelter with the material that nature itself gifts to you.
Taking part in this kind of seminar, again confirms my decision that I consider the best one of my life yet – becoming part of Bujinkan Macedonia.
The happiness that comes with being a part of this unforgettable adventure I felt only when I returned to Skopje, with a sunburn face and a million blisters on my hands.” – Jana Dimitrievska.