I'm glad to hear it too. I hope I'm not being too premature. Sensei simply brought it up as a topic of discussion among the students who were in class one night recently and among those there was a consensus --- no one minds having to bump our schedule back to 6:30PM practice on Mondays and Wednesdays (I believe those were the days?) to accommodate your school's; it's possible he's still discussing the issue with the one senior student who wasn't there that night...not sure if it's a done deal yet.

I'm glad to hear that. I think it will be monetarily benificial to both clubs to share one space. I hope to train again with you and Haye Sensei as well in the future. I like Aikikai's differences. They seen to compliment the Shin Shin Toitsu's. Opens up more martial possibilities and options.

Thanks Kelly --- I just wish they were consistent "in-roads" instead of ones that seem to disappear on me all the time! BTW, looks like we're going to be dojo-roommates.

Jamie wrote; I actually (for once) experienced a couple of throws in which I could really feel my hips engaged and as a result felt very smooth and almost effortless. Naturally, this happens when you're really not paying much attention to what you're doing so much as to how things feel, and so of course any conscious effort on my part to duplicate them failed miserably. But what the hey. I'll keep plugging along as always. I too find that if I start thinking too much about the technique I start fumbling through it. Of course that is about 80% of the time. Sounds to me like your making some real in roads.