Fudo Myou Dojo (of Yamaneko Hall) is the smallest school I attended, ever. Current cohort is only 3 students, including myself. This offers me a certain advantage, as Lees-sensei does not have to delegate teaching.
Also, I never heard of after-class tea before. It would simply be impractical for a school of the size of Mr. Albright's, let alone the KJN Rick's massive operation (putting aside different discipline).
Almost exactly 4 years since the last entry, I went for a class in my new school, one mentioned previously: Fudo Myou Dojo. I am not entirely clear how Yamaneko comes into the picture: is this a parent school? Anyway, it is a Bujinkan school.
The class itself it was quite a disaster. For the warm-up, the heart rate goes up and blood vessels expand, but as we move on, the rate collapses, and so does the blood pressure. If I keep standing, it ends in blackout. So, I spent most of the class laying on the ground, where sensei placed me.
What to do? Training, I suppose. I know from experience that typicall conditioning helps very little, because it focuses on handling the exertion. But my problem is what happens thereafter. But perhaps something may be found.
Now that I am in Albuquerque, I am searching for a school. But the first thing I've done was to look up Tracy at Networker. Surprise, we have a virtual dojo: Tracy Bujinkan Buyu Dojo ran by Mr. Jim Kruse. And they meet at my old school, Traditional Martial Arts. What's more, Mr. Albracht is one of the instructors in Buyu. I saw Mr. Kruse many times, giving mysterious classes which were never on the schedule or talked about. Now I know.
The only entry at WIN for Albuquerque is Fudo Myo Dojo, ran by Mr. Domonic Lees. It is also a virtual dojo, meeting at a local community center.
General search unearthes a number of references, the most prominent is Jubunnaai. Their blog wasn't updated since December of 2007, but it's not like this blog sees regular updates. Mr. Lees trained with Jubunnaai before he founded Fudo Myo.
