Well, not always but sometimes its nice to have had that part of my past. Aiki-jujutsu class was incredible. Well, kinda. We didn't really do much. I got to be an uke for Power Sensei and the Matiarch for their Nikajo Hanza Handachi stuff. I felt honored, and at the same time, pained because those moves are all sorts of joint-twisting sickness. After that, head sensei asked me to be his uke. He did idori on me eight times without break. To those who are unfamilar, idori is the move where the tori throws the uke over their head. Yeah, that was exciting. The main piece of my fancy was when Bendy-chan and I decided to run ikkajo hanza handachi the way we saw on a youtube video. It looked so crisp, clean, and professional. We tried it, and it was ok because it showed where we needed work. In aiki, I asked Bendy-chan to be my uke for a move that i didn't know the name to. I called it "Master Parker's Disco Dance." Well, it took her by surprise, and everyone laughed at her expense...and then was like "I wanna try that!!!" So, yeah, nice aiki class overall. Gotta do more of those hanza handachi warm ups.
Karate class was ok. Besides the fact that it was 70 degrees in the school, and not enough oxygen because of the little ones were sucking it out of the sky. Got to work on my set of kata, do "brachial notch" defense from Happy Sensei. *snort* Brachial Notch *snort* I think for Christmas, I'm gonna get him an anatomy atlas. The height of my boxing training (no, not really) was when Dobbleganger pulled out a goshinken and told her to evade her either chest swing or leg swing. People had a lot of trouble with this exercise, and Sarge was very confused by how to predict it. Well, 1st lesson of boxing...."watch their shoulders, watch their eyes." A novice will ALWAYS look where they wanna attack, and when you fight a seasoned opponent, their shoulders tell you where they are going. I told her to look at her eyes, and Sarge did perfectly. Seems trivial to me, but I was I suppose privelged with that knowledge previously.
Oh, for the sake of reference. I am now a Brown in Aiki-jujutsu, Brown with Stripe in Iai-jutsu, and a Green in Karate. Not to shabby. I am moving up the ladder slowly. Feels nice to be at a decent level.
Only thing to report from Iai was that Doc showed me Kata 5 & 6, and I was doing fairly well against head sensei in goshinken. I was able to block several of his strikes, but he was able to cut my fingers on one move, so yeah...need to work on that. lolz.
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