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[dancemonkey]

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

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[buzzcock]

God I miss talks with Sensei. The ones that almost make sense but are always far profounder. And Paul I may have had a bit of a crush on. He and I worked well together, learning cooperatively and joyfully. Fuck. Good dojo you've landed yourself in. Can't wait to see you. OH SHIT! AND CAN'T WAIT TO TRAIN WITH YOU!!! Just think of how weird and differently intimately we'd get to know each other! Mind boggling. Back to garage Karaoke.

[dancemonkey]

When are you coming down?

I wouldn't classify anything that I have had with Sensei as a "talk" yet. It is mainly along the lines of: "What you are doing is primarily correct, but you could do it this way and it would be better." What I did learn yesterday that was rather surprising to me, is that I have completely lost all common sense when it comes to my personal defense. When I am acting as Uke, I have a tendency to be too forgiving and not watching out for myself. This was something that Sensei was correcting me for. (That and giving me some pointers as to how to do rolls.) Basically I was not keeping my body safe from Nage and I was also jumping up too quickly from when I was thrown.

I am really curious as to what training with you will be like. The level of trust I have in the people I am training with at the dojo is extremely high considering that I am a very untrusting person. I can't imagine what it will be like when I train with someone whom I actually trust already out of the dojo.

How long will you be down for?