Month: November 2008

I’ve been designated to assist teaching the children’s class. Usually I end up with white yellow and green belts. These are the beginning ranks. The children learn first how to roll and do wrist exercises by themselves. Then they work on simple hand grabs like ai hamni ikkyo and iriminage. I find the biggest challenge… Continue reading Children’s class

This past Tuesday I had extra energy for the first time since starting here, so I took the all six classes. For the first two I trained with black belts and had a moderate workout. The randori class was fun. I figured I would take it because my 1st kyu test is going to be… Continue reading A Long Day of Training

There are several improvements going on at New York Aikikai. The biggest one is our new free towel service. Instead of us uchi-deshi busting our butts to get both the gi’s and towels clean, we now have an outside towel service that brings towels and takes them to be cleaned. It actually saves the dojo… Continue reading Changes around the Dojo