Had a fantastic Aikido session last night. I’m glad I went, seeing as I’d had a very bad day at work and was tempted to go home and curl up with a pizza. Ran through two hands from front, but the first hour was simply positioning – taking Uke to the point of throw, but [...]
Due to work commitments, I haven’t been on the mat since Shihan’s Funeral. Last night was my first night back, and despite the trepidation of getting back on the mat after a three week hiatus, I had a pretty good session. We started off with an extended session of exercises, with particular focus on pusture [...]
It’s been a while since my last Blog post, and the simple reason is that things have been so hectic. Work has gone ballistic, I’ve been working 11 hour days just to keep up. My lack of experience in ASP.NET is showing, as I’m having to refactor time and again as fixing one thing breaks [...]
First Aikido session of the new year, and it didn’t go particularly well… Perhaps I just got tired early, or the stress of work at the moment was starting to take its toll, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as usual. The fact that I was paranoid about my hakama falling down didn’t help [...]
I finally got my hakama today Although I graded 1st Dan back in July, In our Aikido association, Dan Grades enter a probationary phase where they still wear the brown belt and collect black bars towards full Dan Grade status. Although I only got to wear it for about half an hour, it felt fantastic, [...]