Thread: Taking notes?
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Old 10-29-2011, 08:24 PM   #7
kewms
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Re: Taking notes?

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Mario Tobias wrote: View Post
it's good to keep a training journal. it just takes less than 10 minutes per day to update. consider it part of your training.
This. For years, well beyond the beginner stage, I never took notes about aikido classes.

Then I started keeping a training journal for another activity. I soon discovered it was invaluable for tracking how I felt, monitoring the cause and evolution of minor injuries and soreness, the effectiveness of my training program over time...

Not being completely incapable of learning from experience, I've started keeping an aikido journal. It's already proven especially useful in helping me tie the threads from different classes and different teachers together.

What should go in such notes? That's entirely up to you, and will probably change as you get more experienced. Think of it as something like a lab notebook: record what you tried, what you expected to happen, what actually happened, and what you learned from the experience.

Katherine
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