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Monday, 28 January 2019 22:29![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yvannairieTried aikido for the first time.
Holy shit I was bad at it.
For some Extended Van Lore, I practiced karate about eight years, and my style was a very stiff straight-up Okinawan style called "Shorin-Ryu". A hard-style school.
Aikido is about as soft as you can get compared to it. I was standing on two steel poles compared to everyone else. The teacher had a lot of fun tossing me around because I just. Didn't get how the redirection of motion typical to that style was supposed to work.
Nevertheless, fun was had. I had a wonderful click moment at one point, and suddenly I realised exactly what I was doing wrong.
I hope to take aikido up properly to compensate for how much sitting I do.
Holy shit I was bad at it.
For some Extended Van Lore, I practiced karate about eight years, and my style was a very stiff straight-up Okinawan style called "Shorin-Ryu". A hard-style school.
Aikido is about as soft as you can get compared to it. I was standing on two steel poles compared to everyone else. The teacher had a lot of fun tossing me around because I just. Didn't get how the redirection of motion typical to that style was supposed to work.
Nevertheless, fun was had. I had a wonderful click moment at one point, and suddenly I realised exactly what I was doing wrong.
I hope to take aikido up properly to compensate for how much sitting I do.
