Friday was another hard day of classes. I took four because my knee was still a bruise at that point, and my arms were dead tired and sore from compensating for my knee in ukemi. Every time I got up off the floor it was like doing a push up. The hardest part of any class when your arms are tired and you have one good knee is wiping down the mats on your hands and knee(s). Nonetheless I enjoyed all of the classes. Douglas Firestone is a great teacher. He is such a funny guy on the mat. Everyone was learning and being entertained at the same time.<\/p>\n
Saturday was a nice relaxing day. I trained with Doug the deshi, and we took it easy on each other to avoid any more injuries. The second class I trained with an interesting man with a solid, but very slow technique. He asked me if I was a dancer because I moved well on the mat. I was very flattered. Then I played with Lorie, a girl who takes the children’s class. She’s a real sweetheart and has a great ikkyo.<\/p>\n
Sunday was a lot of fun. Everyone was jovial on the mat and I had a great first class. Donovan taught an ukemi class. I was pretty much able to to everything except the knee walking, (which I sat out because of my bruise) . The next class Donovan taught weapons. I found out once again that I don’t know how to hold a jo properly or stand in hamni just so. It was a lot of precision work. Donovan really knows his weapons. I pretty much relaxed for the rest of the day and watched an action film with the deshi’s in the evening.<\/p>\n
Labor day there were no classes so Sanji and I went to Pinkberry to eat the best frozen yogurt in existence and then Miguel and Doug and I took a subway to the Brooklyn bridge and walked across it. We took lots of pictures, some of them rather amusing. Once we got back Sanji and I went to the supermarket so we could get ingredients for a cake. This time he baked it while I supervised. Lemon and strawberry (very good)<\/p>\n
Tonya<\/p>\n
Friday was another hard day of classes. I took four because my knee was still a bruise at that point, and my arms were dead tired and sore from compensating for my knee in ukemi. Every time I got up off the floor it was like doing a push up. The hardest part of any… Continue reading Friday and Labor Day Weekend<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}