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We've recently had a spate of new students join our class, which has made it rather overcrowded. I've only been training for six months so I'm not sure why he did this, but our sensei asked me to start the training of the new students - ukemi (mae and ushiro) and basic tenkan, moving into ikkyo. I'm told it's an honor to be treated so, so I'm working on feeling honored rather than dismayed that I'm not getting to train... <grin>
However, it was only when I started training the new students that I realized just how much my technique has improved since I began aikido. It really surprised me to see how simple my tenkan feels, how relaxed I am during it, and how easy it is to manipulate my nage's center.
Please don't think that I'm bragging, because my journey is just beginning. I'm just pleasantly surprised at how much more natural these basic movements feel to me than they did at the beginning of my training.
-Adrian
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