Thankfully only needed to half roll for the grading so didn't affect that thankfully. Was a bit awkward going during the earlier classes, but got...
I had my whole club watching me grade so they know all too well! thankfully we use second hand belts so any newbies coming into the club won't...
Well on saturday I passed my first Aikido grading, now a yellow belt (long way to go to the Black, but who cares its the learning thats the main...
Threads scared the bejesus out of me when I had to watch that in school during year 9. It made one lad so sick that he wasn't in school for two...
White, yellow, orange, green, blue, brown, black in my school
Yeah that's my thinking. I'm not too worries about the grading itself, been there done that, just hoping I done get injured in the seminars prior...
Thankfully Sensei already knows about the injury so she lets me work within it and she has already informed the grading assessors I will be...
My aikido class is a good bunch, not too big a group, in fact I have been the only student on a couple of occasions which is awesome in a way to...
I've done a few martial arts over the years and I have always found the best one to be the one you enjoy doing. Martial arts are like wine, it...
I didn't know I injured it at the time, it was the next day when I couldn't move it that was the problem. I thought I had just slept funny and it...
I realised I had more mental toughness than I realised on an adult instructors training weekend for cadets a few months back. huge amount of pain...
Skyfall. Up to date with the Bond movies *hoofing*
I did to start with, but that pain went away about three days after the injury
Yellow....because it shows your on the start of an awesome journey
No problem.....shopping trip and new presents for you then :p
I think a fine example of mental toughness is the Royal Marines recruit training. There has to be an element of 'state of mind' in anyone joining...
Hi folks! I injured my shoulder a few weeks ago in an aikido lesson (I stupidly didnt tap out sooner on a shoulder extension, so my own fault)...
Broken toes from my first time trying Ju Jitsu last week...still hurting.....grrrr
Actually speaking my mind to someone who was a friend when he got together with a woman I didn't trust from the start. Told him how I really felt...
with the KSMBDA school in Exeter, one of the smaller ones in the city, but I'm enjoying it
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