This is my old mentor / gymnastics coach Shiro Tanaka. He was up at 4:30am today, getting ready for our road trip.

It’s a National Cultural Holiday in Japan — Shiro wrote and acted in a comic skit performed at a big Buddhist English language festival.

Hilarious.

Here’s the professor at work at University of Osaka where he’s been the past 25yrs.

He’s looking to the future. Retiring in about 2yrs. HELLO from Shiro to all his old friends.