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	<title><![CDATA[Ice is your friend]]></title>
	<body><![CDATA[First time in a dojo in many years, and I have to say, it felt real good!

I'm back at home now, enjoying a beer and applying ice to both wrists... and grinning like a maniac. :D  BTW, wine bottle chillers are great for wrists.

It's interesting; I'm having trouble with ikiyo (we were practicing katatatori ikiyo), but nikiyo seemed to come back to me much more clearly.  I really need to focus on ki direction and capturing uke's center; I focus too much on the externals.  Intellectually, I know better;  on the mat, I forget.

Kinetic memory is odd,eh?  

Forward rolls were not too lumpy, but my back rolls were pathetic.  Guess I need to move the furniture in my living room and spend some time rolling around :p . 

I can't wait to get back on the mat.  I wonder if I'll have time to go Thursday after my daughter's end of the year band concert...

PS. day after analysis: clearly I need to spend more attention conditioning my getting off the mat muscle groups...:uch:]]></body>
	<date>05-14-2008</date>
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