Here we go...

Well it's already the new year and this blog is one of my resolutions for 2005. Let's see how it holds... The purpose is to record and share the process of launching Kendo in a country where it doesn't exist. Hopefully that'll make for an interesting story and will help whoever has similar intents in their own country.
I now live in Trinidad and decided to start teaching Kendo. Nobody's doing it here and there seems to be demand, so what the heck. I'm 3-dan, long overdue to try for 4-dan, and have been instructing for a while so things should work out ok.

Actually I've been here since Dec 2003 and started teaching in a small Karate dojo in the suburbs (well, not prefab suburbs you find in more modern countries, more like a dark, dumpy, high crime area). At first, without any advertisement, about 10 hardcore guys joined all vowing to be there at every practice yada yada yada. The usual... After half a year, there's one left, with occasional visits from 3 others. Standard ratio I figured...

Since then, we moved to the middle of the main city (Port of Spain) and decided to find a place to practice here as well. The half hour drive twice a week is becoming annoying, specially for only 1 or 2 people. So found a nice place, central, nice floor, fairly cheap. Starting January, I'll have classes for kids and adults, as well as once a week at the 'old' place.
Haven't started advertising yet but let's see how that goes. More to come...