Jill N

Haruo wrote:
>>BTW Jill, are you guys located in Kitchener or Waterloo? I'm just curious because back when I went to UW, I knew a few people who were doing aikido off campus<<

We are in the old Lang building at Victoria and Charles, the north end of Kitchener I guess you'd say.

>>Other than that, the sensei here don't seem to have too much pity for us poor students. And in the Japanese summer heat and humidity, people get tired and sweaty extremely quickly<<

Maybe I'm just an old softie, but I don't like to risk having any of my students suffer heat stroke, so I do take it easy on them on hot days. I like to play along with what we are doing, so I don't ask my students to do something I wouldn't be able to do safely.

Jamie wrote:
>>Train outside on the grass, if possible.
We've done standing and movement work, avoiding rolls, as green dogi look weird.<<

We do some of this too- I love practicing outside. We usually do weapons work, or walk through techniques without takedown.

Thanks for all the ideas- keep em coming!
e ya later
Jill.