Been a while.
Wednesday night Matt Fluty sensei had a guest instructor come in to lead a
2 hour seminar.  The seminar was led by Jon Smart sensei, who is
Matt's original sensei from 20+ years ago.  Smart sensei has 44 years
of aikido training under his belt.
It was amazing watching someone with that much experience move on the
mat and apply techniques.   ( Read more... )

Sooo, I've been bad about updating here.  Part of the reason is that I suffered a separated shoulder in training about 3 weeks ago.  I have about 1-2 more weeks of healing before I can get back on the mat ( Read more... )

Work has been draining my soul lately so my Aikido training has taken a bit of a hit.  For the past week and a half or so I've only made the beginners class...  Until last night....

This post is mainly so I will remember to update about last night's beginner's and intermediate class...  

My aikido lesson for the day:  Listen to your body.  I felt like crap after about noon today.  Stomach was getting upset and my back started to have little spasms.  I thought about going to class just to watch at the very least but I had to recognize that I don't have that ability.  If I were to go, I would have gotten on the mat and made those ( Read more... )

Yesterday I did not feel like going to the dojo.  The feeling started in the morning and I just couldn't shake it.  I went anyway because I have felt that way before and going to class is always like lifting a weight off of me.  I'm glad I went, I had that feeling as soon as I walked in the door.

I got to class  fairly early so I caught up with my ( Read more... )

This past weekend I ate somewhat unhealthy so I went to the beginners and intermediate classes at the dojo on Tuesday and Thursday.  About 3 hours of work each night ( Read more... )

On Thursday I got to the dojo early so had some time to kill before the 5pm class wrapped up.  I read a couple things from a book in the dojo library and one of them suggested to keep a journal so I might be making use of that here my LJ is seldom used.  The following may make no sense as it is just me putting direct thought to words.  I may go ( Read more... )

For the most part, I like where I work.  My speciffic job has become a situation I can not stay in at the current rate of pay.  In the past, I've been interviewed for promotions, and offered the positions, twice.  My manager wanted it, the District Administrator wanted it.  Personal put a squash on it both times.  Why pay me more for doing the work ( Read more... )

My grandfather on my fathers side just passed away.  My dad drove me down so I could see him.  I had called about a week ago to let him know I was coming and he wasn't able to talk then but his girlfriend was able to let him know ( Read more... )

Life has been good.  Sporadically stressful but I guess that is just life; I'm learning to accept that.

I've been making amazing progress in my physical health and in turn, my general outlook on life has turned around and I am optimistic about life.  I'm seeing more and more places that I can work on making improvements in myself and have ( Read more... )