Wednesday Sensei taught the 12:15 class and the 5:30 class. I was the by his side the instant he took off his hakama after class so I could fold it. I think he was amused at how fast I moved to be the first one there. Today Luke picked me to train with him, which certainly made me feel special. I also trained with some very kind kyu ranking students who were all cooperative and focused. Mike the head deshi got sick Wednesday morning and had to skip classes. I hope that he gets better before I leave so I can train with him one last time.<\/p>\n
Thursday I took all the classes again, which is what I do more often than not. The weapons class especially was fun. I keep learning all these things I’ve never seen before. Luke’s class was good too. For once I felt intelligent in class because I recognized the techniques and the openings well enough to not continuously botch them. Ernie on Thursday evening did an interesting choke that I thought was nice because it didn’t involve using the gi as the choking tool.<\/p>\n
Tonya<\/p>\n
Wednesday Sensei taught the 12:15 class and the 5:30 class. I was the by his side the instant he took off his hakama after class so I could fold it. I think he was amused at how fast I moved to be the first one there. Today Luke picked me to train with him, which… Continue reading Wednesday and Thursday (the last)<\/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-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","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=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aikidocenterofjacksonville.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}