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Aikido Training Report #1 · Jan 9, 12:11 AM

hey you didn’t tell me how class went!
i need to know these things!

This is what my friend wrote. My response follows:

Class was fun. There were three beginners and three advanced students—by advanced I mean wearing a hakama, which indicates 2nd kyu or higher. We covered some basic stance and footwork, then rolls from seiza, kneeling, and standing. I nearly crunched over my face, and took some rolls badly, but am happy with my ability.

We did a simple katate tori technique from gyaku gamae (not sure which, but it was a tenkan variation, and we did not follow-through all the way into into a pin or throw), and a simple mune tsuki initiated throw (again, unsure which, but was something irimi). I suppose that sensai was showing us irimi vs. tenkan.

The guy who worked with my on the katate tori part asked several times if I was sure I hadn’t trained before. He also did stance testing at the end of the technique, which may be a very good sign, but it’s definitely not a bad one.

ASIDE: Any internal strength I have now (which I can only manifest sporadically, and in static postures) is due to my exposure to Mike Sigman—via seminars and videos—from back when I was into taiji.

That was ninety minutes of my saturday morning. I spent the rest of the day laying in bed, half asleep or alternately at my computer, falling asleep. Then I slept for 10 hours, woke up, and was ready to lay in bed some more; the exhaustion was exhausting. Most of the pain is the good muscular kind, which will lead to strength and endurance. I’m carefully listening to my right foot, which is prone to plantar fasciitis due a semi-collapsed arch from hiking so much. I like the soft mats.

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