Taiho Jutsu Whk Membership Information

Welcome to Taiho Jutsu Namibia, you really made the right decision to join the winning martial art style practiced worldwide. 

Needless to go deep into the origin of Taiho Jutsu, however; in brief, Taiho Jutsu means plainly the martial art of arresting and that’s the main reason it’s called police self-defence. It’s a combination of nearly all Japanese martial arts styles, particularly: Judo, Aikido, Ju-Jutsu, Karate, Ninjutsu, Kendo, Kempo, and Sumo; all neatly crafted into one style commonly known as Taiho Jutsu.

Training is aligned on three main aspects such as, Kata: (the formal demonstration of techniques which is required at all levels from beginner to black belt), Street fighting: (self-defence applications) and Competition sparring: (practical fighting mainly based on Tomiki Aikido).

Grading examinations start from yellow belt onward to black belt ten (10) stripes. Even though, currently, Taiho Jutsu Namibia can only grade students from yellow to san-dan, 3^rd Dan stripe black belt, and the rest as from shi-dan, 4^th Dan stripes to the 10^th Dan black belt would be done abroad in England, America, or Japan.      

Nonetheless, Taiho Jutsu is a martial art that focuses on restraining the aggressor without causing unnecessary damage to the adversary. The confrontation, control, and restraining of the culprit are done having in mind your safety and that of your attacker because it’s not necessary to injure them if you can safely and confidently restrain them prior to handing them over to the police if required to do so.

Of course, deadly force in Taiho Jutsu is taught to be avoided at all times. And basically avoiding deadly force in Taiho Jutsu comes naturally that even when you’re attacked by a well-trained Ninja assailant, you’ll strive to restrain him or her without injuring them. But you might lose a finger or two to their sword if not careful because it’s not easy to disarm and eventually restrain a well-trained Ninja!

As for the payments to obtain Taiho Jutsu lessons in Windhoek for now, we have three clubs; one for the beginners, the other one for the semi-beginners, and the third one for advanced classes. And that comes with different payment rates, of which the club for the beginners costs relatively low, so that all those interested in taking up Taiho Jutsu would find it reasonably cheaper to do so. In simple terms, people under 18 years old do pay only N$18.75, and adults pay N$37.50 per each training session of one hour X2 required training sessions a week for better results.

Our clubs are open for classes Mondays to Fridays from 10:00 to 18:00, and Saturdays to Sundays from 14:00 to 16:00 throughout the year except Christmas day. So it’s up to you to choose which two days in a week you would want to train during those training slots! For instance, you could choose to train on Monday and Thursday for one hour each training session from either 10:00 to 11:00 or whatever! There will be other people to train with you in that time slot or whatever time slot you may choose to train, and where there is none; you’ll attend training by yourself one on one with your trainer/s.

As for now prior to joining Taiho Jutsu Namibia, what you need is a tracksuit and running shoes, and you’ll buy yourself a Judo and eventually karate suit as time goes on. And as for the payments, you can pay for all eight (8) training sessions in advance for the whole month or pay cash each time you attend classes. But in any case, it’s good manners to inform us in advance as to which days and time slots in a week you would want to train so that we could expect and arrange your training sessions beforehand.

Kind regards,

Sensei Joseph Sambi.

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Taiho Jutsu Windhoek Club

The first Taiho Jutsu Club in Windhoek for everybody is now up and smoothly running, and those interested, regardless of age and gender are more than welcome to join us. 

Of course, by now everybody in Namibia knows that Taiho Jutsu is a combination of various Japanese martial arts styles such as Judo, Jui-Jutsu, Aikido, Karate, Ninjutsu, Kendo, Kempo, and Sumo, all refined neatly into one style world-widely known as Taiho Jutsu International.

And given the fact that Taiho Jutsu is new in Namibia; the question of membership fee or rather monthly club membership fee therefore is absolutely not a concern at all because we have made it as much affordable as possible for everybody interested to easily find their way to our Dojo.

So if you’re interested to take up Taiho Jutsu in Windhoek, Namibia, by all means email or call us on the following contact details for more information.

taihojutsu.namibia@gmail.com

+264 817 503 645

+264 812 018 707

+264 814 794 769 

Taiho Jutsu Namibia

As you can see the time I am posting this article on my blog, 03:07 sharp early Thursday morning, which means that we never get enough time to do anything else on time at Taiho Jutsu Namibia, due to ongoing training day and night Monday to Monday, throughout the year in Namibia. I can’t remember the last time I slept before 12:00 midnight, and that's the reason it took us longer than we thought it would for us to open up our Dojo doors to everybody willing to join Taiho Jutsu Namibia International in Namibia.

But thank God, the time has come and the time is now. And those of you who still remember what we had promised you earlier would also recall that we were supposed to open up our Dojo doors to the general public members on the 10^th August 2017, unfortunately due to Taiho Jutsu trainers’ training currently still going on; we were still unable to do so, but we are now good to do so for the most part in Windhoek for now!

However, the Taiho Jutsu trainers’ training remains classified and it certainly won’t affect or jeopardize the general public members’ training sessions whatsoever. If anything; it will most certainly enhance the new comers’ confidence upon seeing what others are capable of doing in the name of physical education & self-defence due to training daily.

But I should make it clear right here that as a new beginner, you won’t train along with the advanced students that are under-going Taiho Jutsu trainers’ training course since they have their own Dojo far away from yours! 

Training halls shown in these pictures, depicted herewith are basically portraying your training halls where you’ll receive your Taiho Jutsu membership training as of today or tomorrow when you join us since we train daily, throughout the week. There will however, be times once in a while when you would train with them. But either way, I’ll be there with you to see to it that you both get the best out of training together as one body.

Now your question is WHAT DO WE OFFER IN TAIHO JUTSU NAMIBIA INTERNATIONAL that you possibly couldn’t find anywhere else? Well, that’s a very good question indeed because it’s your right to know what you’re getting yourself into prior to setting foot in that Dojo!

1.     Subsidized low membership monthly fees;

2. International Taiho Jutsu membership certificate and lifelong grading hardcover booklet;

3.  Medical insurance pertaining to injuries sustained only at Dojo;

4.     Comfortably well-equipped training halls;

5.  Unmatched advanced training in physical education pertaining to community sports, Aerobics, Dance, Yoga, and martial arts such as Aikido, Karate, Jui-jutsu, Judo, Kendo, Sumo, and Ninjutsu;

6.   And finally, Theophostic Ministry Healing Beyond TOLERABLE Recovery.

Taiho Jutsu Meditation in Jesus Christ

Well, it’s only in Taiho Jutsu Namibia International where you would get admitted into a Dojo on such conditions and no place else in Africa! In Taiho Jutsu Namibia International we do not only teach physical education & self- defence, but heal people who have been tormented with stigmas from long ago! And this where Theophostic Ministry Healing beyond TOLERABLE Recovery comes handy into being; something you probably haven’t heard of before, but we have it, and you can even google it online and you will see that it’s there, thanks to Edward M. Smith.

Before getting into religious political confusion here, stating the facts; the best I can describe Theophostic Ministry Healing beyond TOLERABLE Recovery is that I would really appreciate getting the most troublesome school-going-kids or adults who can’t stay away from getting into trouble from time to time, particularly those who have been to prisons several times for crimes they had committed beyond their control, to heal under Theos which means God. In Taiho Jutsu, healing troublesome or rather troubled people of such nature is like taking a piece of cake after one has taken dinner.

So if you know somebody who can’t stay away from running into trouble from time to time, or you probably have a child or relative who can’t naturally live without committing crimes; by all means, please bring them to us and we’ll turn them into saints, and those are the people you’ll depend on most in future. Not only are we going to teach physical education & self-defence, but heal them internally in God’s name from whatever they suffered from.

Some people in physical education & self-defence various styles do use countless prophets such as Buddha, Mohammad, and what have you; to meditate so as to reach above average state of mindset, but in Taiho Jutsu, especially here in Namibia, we use God Almighty to do all those things through Jesus Christ, thanks to Theophostic Ministry Healing beyond TOLERABLE Recovery. And not only that, but I am a certified international evangelist myself, believing in God through Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit; Theophostic Ministry Healing beyond TOLERABLE Recovery, therefore is what I do best in addition to physical education & self-defence!

    

There is absolutely no way that I could train a criminal who would eventually go out there after attending my training and see it fit to advance his or her criminal activities thereafter, oh God; that could never happen as long as I lived in Jesus Christ, thanks to Theophostic Ministry Healing beyond TOLERABLE Recovery!

My motto is that once I train you and heal you, you become the new you, the old is gone, only the best in you would remain alive forever in Jesus Christ, that’s basically how simple Taiho Jutsu Namibia International is! And that’s the reason why the Namibian Government and British Council in Namibia had seen it fit to send me for Taiho Jutsu studies to England, because I have it, and I will always have it in me to train only the best even if they were initially horribly bad people.

Now your second question is WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO OR NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO JOIN TAIHO JUTSU NAMIBIA INTERNATIONAL? 

1.     For now be in Windhoek - Namibia, willing to take up physical education & self-defence;

2.     Most of all be Namibian by birth or social status;

3.  Regardless of age and gender, get your membership application form here: taihojutsu.namibia@gmail.com

4.     If you don’t have access to email clients, call us on the following business mobile phone numbers to obtain membership application form: +264 817 503 645, +264 813 034 066, +264 812 018 707;

5.     Once approved, buy yourself a Judo or Karate suit, running shoes, and tracksuit, and then come to us.

Well, this is it for now, we will talk again very soon, and thanks again for always reading our articles on this blog; God bless you too! 

Join Them If You Cannot Beat Them

Is it really true that you should join them if you can’t beat them even if they are wrong? Well, I’m beginning to think that maybe that old saying is correct because I’ve just decided to quit writing a book on philosophy about composition of the Niger-Congo family branch languages for Bantu speaking peoples of southern and east Africa, a book I’ve been working on for the past seven years now, but due to lack of inspiration I recently started wondering as to why I haven’t discarded it already?   

I realised that even if I were to write and have it published, I would still have to pay people in Africa to read it since the majority of our people aren’t readers and are certainly not willing to regenerate their native languages. That’s the reason I had taken up this project after discerning that our native languages needed reformation. There are so many words we don’t have in our mother languages and therefore all we do is replacing them with foreign language terms while speaking even on air and it’s annoying. 

See, apart from teaching physical education and martial arts, I am a writer. I take pleasure in writing but this time I think I had met my match because it’s not easy tolerating the composition of the Niger-Congo linguistic family branch. I bet those of the Khoisan, Nilo-Saharan, Afro-Asiatic family branches aren’t as rusty as ours in southern Africa. Talking in riddles you think I do, hence wasting your time; but can you imagine that that’s exactly how we speak when utilising our mother languages in southern Africa? Yet we are not aware of the fact that we simply do speak in riddles because of a heightened shortage of terms, and we don’t know how inconvenient that is even for us!

It’s rude to mix languages when holding a conversation in one specific language. Unfortunately we have no choice but use foreign terms even when talking to our grandparents who hadn’t gone to school and we do so because there aren’t words for certain expressions in our native languages.  But can you believe that if you spoke English by mixing it with foreign terms anybody would conclude that you spoke no English. So how would you feel if a foreigner by merely listening to your conversations eventually told you that you spoke no African? Bad!

Nonetheless, Anthropologists, do claim that Bantu languages currently used in Africa are apparently five thousand years old, but we both know that that’s not true because if life on earth as we know it is believed to have had started in Africa then how come that local native languages therefore are only estimated to be five thousand years old? But never mind that because even if that were true, why is it that they aren’t fully developed yet? As a layman you could argue that they are fully developed but do you know the difference between the terms developing and developed? So I don’t know about you and your African native language but in my mother tongue (Silozi) we don’t even have a native word for coffee, at least tea of a teabag is called Masamba but so is coffee! Now would you send such an astronaut using such a language that mixed tea and coffee altogether as Masamba to the moon and back if you were the Director of NASA? I certainly wouldn’t!

Long story short, in southern Africa we have a younger language called Afrikaans and Afrikaans is most probably the youngest language in the whole world. It is only 425 years old but to date; Afrikaans is as fully developed as English if not more! I speak Afrikaans better than English and I raised my children in Afrikaans, and English, of course. But I tell you, Afrikaans is ten times far developed than any other known African native language in Africa. It’s been used twice in international space without mishaps and that can’t be said for any other African native language, not even the renowned Hausa and Swahili.

In short, Afrikaans, formerly known as Cape Dutch is a West Germanic language copied from the South Holland dialect and predominantly manufactured in South Africa in the mid 17^th century. Afrikaans was created from words found in English, German, French, and African languages, and then went through a significant grammatical oversimplification to a point whereby within a century it became as popular in South Africa and Namibia as a spoken language while Standard Dutch remained used for writing. It was only in 1925 that it finally replaced Standard Dutch and eventually became an official language in both South Africa and Namibia. The first translation of the Holy Bible from English to Afrikaans was only published in 1933, whereas by then, even my mother tongue (Silozi Holy Bible) was already in circulation for like two centuries in existence.

And yet the custodians of the Afrikaans language in South Africa kept on working at it, modifying it daily to the point where they finally modernised it so much so that you wouldn’t come across a word copied from neither English, German, French, nor African languages, but purely clean Afrikaans language. And that’s our haughty Afrikaans. A new language in the world which can’t be found anywhere else in the world, neither in Germany nor Holland but South Africa and Namibia! And it’s being used at all universities and in space for instructions in South Africa and Namibia as a second language, of course. But when will I proudly be able to say so for my mother tongue, Silozi, of the Bantu Speaking Farmers of Niger-Congo family branch of West Africa currently in southern Africa? Not in my lifetime I guess, thanks to our repressing cultures and traditions! Cultures and traditions are good things but they can easily choke development dead when left in the hands of traditional leaders to be custodians of a language and cultural civilization.

Well, in case you’re not following the point I’m trying to make, let me school you further by putting you to a simple test, regardless of where in the world you are as long as you’re a person, and more so falling under the Niger-Congo linguistic family branch.

Now with all that knowledge of your home dialect, translate these simple terms from English to your African mother tongue (excluding Afro-Asiatic family branch) for us to see if you have them!

1.    Sorry: ...in English sorry is an adjective term which expresses a feeling of regret for an action that might upset or inconvenient somebody or is likely to do so; but please, don’t tell me that sorry means forgive me!

2.    Please: ...please in English is an adverb or simply interjection term used in requests to add politeness or urgency to requests, commands, or published rules and regulations, so how do you translate please by itself into African language without writing the bible?

3.    Feel: ...feel in English is a verb or basically an intransitive verb referring to how one would seem to themselves to be in a particular emotional or physical state. And in terms of transitive verb, feel refers to how one experienced an emotion or physical sensation. But in my mother tongue (Silozi) feel is basically translated as hear. It’s used in the same context as hearing like with one’s ear. My own people in Namibia and Zambia to be exact do translate feel as hearing, actually saying that they were apparently hearing pain (instead of feeling pain) in their tummy.

4.    Handicapped and disabled: ...in English particularly in terms of medical condition, those two are both adjectives that refer to a physical or mental disability, yet even so they are still considered offensive in English. But how offensive are they in African terms when translated around in your neighbourhood? I certainly don’t want to be the one translating them from African Silozi to English because in that sense they sound highly offensive beyond measure. In fact those terms in our native languages, particularly Silozi, referring to the handicapped or disabled people should be lawfully prohibited forever. For instance, in Silozi (my native language back home) the Mentally-ill, Handicapped and Disabled people are known as “Lyanga ni Lihole,” there is even a programme on NBC Lozi Radio in Katima Mulilo which is popularly known as: Programme ya batu baba pila ni bwanga ni buhole – meaning: Programme for the people who live with “Bwanga ni Buhole,” just how insensitive; oh that hurts if only you spoke Silozi! Anyway, how do you translate them in African languages among your people; to a point where you would translate them from African to English without using vulgar words or rather insulting somebody?  

5.    But maybe we should stop this argument here because already you can see problems I’ve been encountering in trying to make sense of our native languages.  And the problem is that this problem can’t be corrected by one person no matter how good they were; and it certainly can’t be corrected by government alone either. The only hope is that as much as governments in southern Africa are spending money on promoting cultures and traditions, so they should do to help the custodians of native languages update their local languages, respectively. School can’t come close to fixing the problem. Yet I don’t know any teacher who looks forward to teaching African Silozi language at school in Namibia today. And they won’t complain publicly because they don’t know better either. So the project to promote and modernise our native languages would work very well if government took a lead on it because it takes generations forever after generations to carve and improve any given language.   

6.    See, I enjoy speaking African languages very much. Unfortunately they leave me extremely exhausted because of putting more emphasis and effort into gathering words to finish a sentence without mumbling and gesturing.  But foreign languages such as English and Afrikaans never leave me tired at all. And I use little effort to speak them fluently and articulately because all the words are readily available and therefore do come easy.

7.    Basically the point above is what had made me realise that not only do countries’ infrastructure get developed but languages too. As you find developing countries in relation to developed ones, you also find developing languages proportionate to developed ones. So a language won’t develop if the owners don’t know that it has to be reformed in order for it to be developed to where it could be used for instructions at universities and in space even.

8.    Of course, we can choose to accept and continue utilising our native languages as developing as they are, hence leaving the problem for future generations to solve but who says they will do so? Already it doesn’t take a genius to detect that the future generations won’t speak those things at all; but English, unless they are developed like Afrikaans, and therefore we’ll lose many indigenous languages in Africa.   

9.    Before we go, though, the big question still remains: “Do you join them if you can’t beat them even if they were wrong?” Please, feel free to write your comment/s down below. As a writer, I never get offended by a comment. On the contrary, I enjoy negative comments very much because I get to learn new things from the critic. And you can write comments in African languages like I did earlier, and translate their meanings in English. And not only African peoples but everybody globally can leave a comment down below.

10.                   But wouldn’t it be nice hearing how the Americas, Europeans, and Asians had developed their native languages to such a state of art perfection? It certainly would!

Now We Are Flying High With Dignity In Taiho Jutsu Namibia

Taiho Jutsu has finally found its home in the hearts and minds of the Namibian people. Who would have known that what had started in the late 1940s as the adopted sport and martial art of the Japanese, American and British Police forces would someday find its rightful place in the hearts and minds of the Namibian people? Yes we have Taiho Jutsu now in Namibia and it is here to stay! And like everywhere else, the curriculum for Taiho Jutsu in Namibia has been tailored into a scheme best suited to the needs of not only the law-enforcement and military forces, but civilians or rather members of the public from all walks of life, regardless of their gender, race, and age.

 Conversely, for the sake of international requirement pertaining to selection of Taiho Jutsu instructors, only applicants possessing Grade 12 and Grade 12+ between 18 and 40 years old (men & women) have been accepted for the forthcoming trainers’ course which is due to start in Windhoek on the 3^rd July and Katima Mulilo on the 10^th July 2017. The conscription process, however, was painstaking and time consuming but so far; we’re done, hence ready to start up with training when the time comes.  The Instructors for both Windhoek and Katima Mulilo Taiho Jutsu schools have completed their refresher course and are now resting, just waiting for the newly accepted trainees to step in.

It’s basically energizing to mention that the expected numbers of novel trainees have even exceeded the required limit, and therefore the doors to the forthcoming trainers’ course have now been shut until the next term, if possibly so. But since the course in question will be classified for the sake of privacy and protection of our trainees’ identities, it gives me pleasure to confirm that all protocols regarding the course have been followed to ensure a bright future for the trainees upon completion of their training.

That basically means that the course was initially designed to be consistent with the international standard for physical education & self defence for the general public. All subjects starting from physical training to Taiho Jutsu as stated in our business flyer circulated across the country, have been knitted so well so as to obtain maximum results in the fields of career sport, sport management, sport business, and ordinary fitness components of body composition, cardio-respiratory stamina, flexibility, and muscular strength and endurance to the extent that anybody with a brain undergoing  such a physical education & self defence trainers’ course placed at international level would definitely be on high demand for employment in the sport industry of Namibia and elsewhere on the face of the earth.  

Lastly, however, I would like to thank the Board of Directors for Taiho Jutsu Namibia and associates for subsidizing the course in question, hence make it possible for many people to participate in the programme. I also thank them for trusting and believing in me and my team to run the course of its first kind in Namibia. And I believe that this won’t be the end but rather the beginning of many such courses to be run across the country and possibly neighbouring countries in the future. And not only that, but I thank them for allowing us to open the doors to everybody wanting to train physical education & self defence for self-esteem club benefit at our Windhoek and Katima Mulilo Taiho Jutsu schools at a regular Taiho Jutsu monthly membership fee for laymen as from August 10, 2017.  By then, not only permanent club instructors but current Taiho Jutsu training undergoing student trainers for teaching practice purpose would be there to provide training to everybody for Godssake, how lovely! I for one can’t wait for all that fun coming our way in Windhoek and Katima Mulilo very soon! Well, even though it has been said that the course will be classified from the beginning to the end, but sneak previews in terms of snapshots and updates would be offered to social networks once or twice in a while. And I’m glad that it’s me who is given such powers to decide what goes to the media and what stays retained; oh God, that’s beautiful because I can do all that while sleeping even!

Kind regards,

Sensei Joseph Sambi: ジョセフ ・ サンビ

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We're Now Good To Go

Have you ever imagined becoming a physical education and self defence instructor or personal trainer in Namibia? Of course not, because becoming such things would require you to raise tons of money to go for physical education and self defence studies abroad since not even our UNAM or the Polytechnic do present such courses in Namibia. They’re of course presenting the universal school physical education, recreation & leisure, but not combined with self defence for commercial purpose and certainly not in a century henceforth would they do that! But worry no more because Taiho Jutsu Namibia is doing just that and therefore, your dream to become a professional physical education and self defence instructor for commercial purpose has been realized long before you even knew it, thanks to the Namibian Government and British Council who had made it possible for Taiho Jutsu to come to Namibia through Sensei Joseph Sambi of Taiho Jutsu International. 

By attending this forthcoming three (3) months full time physical education & self defence instructors’ basic training course, you’re bound to start at the top and stay at the top as a professional physical education & self defence instructor as though you had been trained at some university in England yourself! To us at Taiho Jutsu Namibia, this course in question is absolutely not about making money from you but rather helping you become a physical education and self defence instructor. That’s why even you won’t complain when you pay the N$5,500.00 (US$392.95) subsidized tuition fee for this course because that’s utterly nothing compared to what you would have paid if you went abroad or to South Africa or Egypt where they present such courses in full like we do. You can however get this course online if you want but even there it would cost you US$3,250.00. So if you’re seriously contemplating taking up this course, then Taiho Jutsu Namibia is your only leeway to it. Now to make sure that you’re reserved a desk on the course, get the application form by requesting it here: taihojutsu.namibia@gmail.com …complete it and return it to us as soon as possible for confirmation and right away we’ll send you half of the text books for the entire course and also the three (3) months training programme for you to start training yourself in advance prior to setting a foot in the classroom. 

Training Courses Offered:

THREE (3) MONTHS Basic Training

1. Physical Training (PT)

2. Fitness Training & Conditioning (Yoga/Aerobics/Dance)

3. Nutrition & Dietetic

4. Fitness Training for Special Conditions

5 /6. Sport Management & Sport Business

7. Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation/First Aid

8. Karate

9. Karate Kata/Kumite

10. Taiho Jutsu

11. Taiho Jutsu Kumite/Kobudo

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Physical Education & Self Defence Trainers' Course Update

Friends, as I mentioned earlier in my previous post, we’ll announce the details of the Physical Education & Self Defence trainers’ course in question very shortly after we have exhausted issues pertaining to study subjects in collaboration with study fees. For example, we are obliged to acknowledge and accept certifications from other institutions issued to both personal and group trainers who had studied kinesiology, physiology, anatomy and first aid, hence allowing such trainers to only sit for exams in those subjects without attending such classes with us, let alone purchasing study materials in those fields so as to save them money. Given the fact this forth-coming course will be its first kind presented by us or anybody else in Namibia; we’re therefore trying to make it as affordable as possible so as to accommodate all those who are interested.  

One thing I can guarantee you now is that whoever will attend the three (3) months physical education & self defence course in question would be on demand by not only us (Taiho Jutsu Namibia) for employment as Personal/Group Instructor at our various clubs, but many health centres, organisations, and schools across Namibia. And not only that, but the course participants holding our physical education & self defence certificate would be able to open up and run their own clubs if they so wished. 

Well, as for now, friends, let me go back to arranging everything and I promise to come back to you adamantly with all the details pertaining to where, how much, who to attend, and when would the course be held, okay? I promise, you won’t miss such information because it will be conveyed to you by means of all resourceful social media platforms including the local national radio, television, newspapers, and word of mouth. So relax a bit for now, right?