So I, with the possibility of being a little embarrassed, figured I'd post about something I've been doing the last couple of days.

Yesterday as I was goofing off at work I saw that both Lifehacker and Lifehack linked to blog by a guy named Steve Pavlina. I'd never heard of Pavlina before and so I had no idea what to expect when I went to his ( Read more... )

So I went to my first mixed class yesterday at lunch.( Read more... )

Went to practice last night. ( Read more... )

I didn't realize how weak I was until I started Aikido. An interesting little factoid. Or maybe not.

Also... Where the hell did all those muscles that are hurting so much come from? ha!

Some questions I have been having about being Uke.
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Yesterday I had such a hard workout that I think the other people in the dojo thought I was going to have a heart attack. Rather funny.

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The Ki of the Great Origin
Is Full and abundant.
The Heavens and the Earth, all Creation itself
From here began.

- Morihei Ueshiba

AikiWeb is a good resource.

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I was going to send this via email, buzzcock, but I decided to post this instead. I think it is worthy of a post due to the aspects of my mental and physical development or potential lack there of in Aikido ( Read more... )

Just a quick entry before dinner. Yum... dinner. Pasta tonight.

Yesterday's class was very different than Wednesday's class. Many more people, and many more Hakamas than in any of the classes before that. Only one person was there that had been in any of the other classes that week... Oh wait, and there was a kid there too who had been there ( Read more... )

Hmmm... I've been thinking about forward rolling (I don't know the japanese for this, I should look it up when I get home tonight) a lot in the past couple of days. I just don't think I have it at all yet. I understand the physical attributes about it, but I don't believe that I have the mental aspects of it yet.

I was reading Aikido and the ( Read more... )