Kangeiko: the Pictures
Kangeiko training is hard winter training. It is training of the determination and the will.
In our dojo it goes like this: You don’t have to do kangeiko but if you start, you must commit to doing it all.
For one week in January, the heat is turned off every night after class. At 5am Sempai arrives and opens the doors and windows. At 5:30am, before breakfast, there is a 1 hour class, no talking, no teaching, just hundreds and hundreds of technique repititions.
Then all go home for breakfast, then on to school or work.
At the end of the week, the whole crew loads up and goes out to one of our West Coast beaches, where they train a bit, walk in the ocean and then meditate under a water fall for as long as they can stand it. Ambient temperature of water and air - just above freezing.
For a whole year, everything else looks easy compared to this week.
Here are the pictures of one year’s last day:
