This past weekend the before-last seminar from the series “Life in the Wild” was held. This event, together with “10.000 B.C.” and “Ways of Winter Survival” are the only ones that at this moment are specialized and dedicated to all the members of Bujinkan Macedonia that want to delve deeper into the secrets of Ninjutsu or to be more precise – into the techniques of survival in nature.
After six previous “Life in the Wild” seminars, where the participants mastered the techniques for survival in mountains lower and higher than 1000 meters, and also organized life by a river, forest and desert conditions, the sixth edition brought us to the wild parts of the Prespa Lake, near the coasts of the village of Konjsko.
We now publish the impressions of two of the participants of this year’s event.
“Every moment of the seminar was beautiful. From arriving on location, to leaving. Just as we arrived on the lakeside, immediately we went to work preparing our shelter and our food. Everybody had a task and all working towards the same goal. Some gathered dry branches for the fire, others rolling the yeast-less dough, while a third group hunted for frogs and fish. We had a lot of lesions about how we can use nature to organize life by a lake. Together with us, constantly working were Sensei’s kids: Kosara, Ksenija and Petar. They also kept guard and never complained. Although they are still kids, I see in them little Warriors.
This time because we were a smaller group, Sensei also kept guard. For me it was a huge honor to be kept safe by Sensei while I slept. When I lied down in my sleeping bag, I couldn’t stop looking at the stars. That for me was a view out of a million dollar hotel. I thought that I could reach out and touch all those heavenly bodies. As if the entire universe was laid out in front of me. It was all so magical” – sempai Mihail Drakalski.
“Many times have I written about the seminars during which we study the techniques for survival in nature and I have been on many of them, but during this last one I felt like I had some kind of a personal epiphany. Not that there were many new things for me, but simply as if this time I understood them in their entirety with both my mind and my heart. Sensei multiple times repeated the “Five Fingers” rule that he has told many times before. Those are the five rules of survival under any circumstances in nature. But what do we do when we return to civilization? Here, all these five basic rules of survival are ‘polluted’. All these five core needs that are critical to life – we are irreversibly destroying.” – sempai Vladimir Antovski.
In the end, even now we wish to announce the last “Life in the Wild” that will be held in the year 2020 in the semi-steppe of Ovce Pole.