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gearing up for class in about 2 hours now, been aching to take some nice hard ukemi all weekend, work keeps getting in the way, back to basics during the warm-ups, my "rolls" have looked more like a cinder block falling down a flight of stairs than anything circular lately, allowing myself to take breakfalls a bit too often it seems, I guess it's just more impressive when I get thrown high, being 6feet5 and over 400lbs, hey I carry it well, ok stop laughing now, when is soembody gonna invwnt/patent Aiki-Robics? Billy Blanks can't be the only one thinking along these lines, what I meant by "one of THOSE guys" is that I currently practice NGA or Nihon Goshin Aikido, I discovered Aikido when invited to the Sho-Dan Test of one of my closest college friends. I soon went out and found the closest dojo to me which was Aikido of Staten Island, a USAF school run by Ralph Wemberly Sensei. I made it through almost 2 yeras of training and my Go-Kyu test there before work required me to move, but nonetheless I was hooked. I soon found myself practicing at Woodstock Aikido and enjoyed a soldi 6 months of almost daily practice their with Harvey Konigsberg Shihan and many of his very talented Sempai. Once again work, and an angry girlfriend, got in the way of training and I ended up moving. This brought me to Aikido of Portland Maine, where I spent another 6 months on the mat with many fine Sempai of Kanai Shihan of the New England Aikikai, I soon found my way back to NYC and Aikido of Stat
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