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Helped demo for this today, it was an interesting experience. The actual techniques I did for my 1 minute are a blur. The more interesting part was watching all the other demos. It was my first exposure to really seeing a lot of other schools do their Aikido.
Also seeing the Yoshikan Dojo brought out a lot of reflections on training at larger schools vs smaller schools, when I saw all those people on the mat at once. Utada Sensei was quite interesting to watch. I was struck at one point by the subtlelty of his movement when he evaded an attack. I felt kind of like I was watching a stage magician and that I should have been watching him more instead of the action, because he was there, then suddenly not there... All in all an interesting afternoon.
11-07-2004 06:50 PM 