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[toosuto]

Geoff Sensei (the kindly looking man in white) was visiting for testing (which was yesterday) and taught class last night. It was a long lecture on the theory behind aikido punches which are much more natural than the sort of punching one learns in karate or other martial arts (which tend to be pretty telegraphed because you have to snap back to the ready position and then punch). He then proceed to demonstrate various attacks on the senior members of the class and we did some simple dodges and throws. We ended the class with everyone rapping everyone else on the forehead (like you were knocking on the door) in turn. Other than possibly practicing pain absorbtion I'm not exactly what purpose it served. Anywho I have a small lump on my head and a splitting headache this morning.

But that's mitigated by the fact that this photo was at 62/500 in explore this morning, but I feel really braggy mentioning it and kind of crazy for tracking it's explore statistic daily but there it is. /horn tooting

Now I Will Make These Aikidoka *Disappear*!, originally uploaded by toosuto.

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the kindly looking man in white who will break you in two.