From July 26 to August 11, a delegation of the German chapter of the Ryûkyû Kobudô Tesshinkan Kyô Kai travelled to Okinawa to train with Tamayose Sensei. The German group consisted of:
- Frank Pelny (Nordhausen)
- Heike Prophet (Nordhausen)
- Sebastian Edelmann (Leipzig)
- Michaela Frost (Garmisch)
- Kevin Freyberg (Nordhausen)
- Steffen Kuhnke (Jena)
- Martin Mähler (Ennepetal/Jena)
- Hagen Walter (Jena)