The leader of the Organisation “Taiyou e no Michi” ,Igor Dovezenski, completed a four day visit of Amsterdam, Holland, where he met up with some of his compatriots from the club of his deceased teacher and mentor for Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto ryu Bojutsu.
The visit was dedicated to communal remembrance and respect, Dovezenski took an active participation in the training sessions organised in honour of their teacher Erik Louw’s birthday. The meeting was filled with strong emotions, especially with former students of Louw Sensei – people with which Dovezenski trained with, in many a past year, in Japan, but people that also have a lot of lasting memories of training at the Hombu Dojo of “Taiyou e no Michi” in Macedonia.
In those rare moments of quiet self reflection, Dovezenski visited many of the places that marked his first steps into this discipline during his three day stay in 2013, spent, at that time, with his teacher. It was a trip down memory lane, but also a reminder that the Way goes on without end.
As a natural evolution of this meetup, a deal was struck for future cooperation with the successor of Louw Sensei, Marcel Breedveld. The cooperation will focus on regular joint training events, seminars and mutual visits of each other’s dojos in Macedonia and Holland – this will be a living bridge between tradition, friendship and a joint dedication towards the Way.