You might be an Aikido addict if ....

Hi my name is Cherie and I am an aikido addict.

I first realized this was becoming a problem just yesterday. I was meeting with some friends for lunch and ordered the spiral pasta and some pretzels.

After lunch we went to the mall. We stepped into a little pet shop where I immediately noticed a lady walking with her dog. He was an akita. Beautiful I really want one some day so I bought a book about them.

Then we were looking for a good movie to take home to watch and I picked Twister... incidentally that was also the game I suggested we play when everyone else decided that maybe we didn't want to see a movie after all.

We stopped in at a craft store because I really like arts and crafts. I really needed some more paper and a new book on origami. Folding things is fun.

As we left the mall one of my friends mentioned she needed to buy a lamp for her office desk. So I immediately suggested we stop at Ikea to look for one. We found a really nice one for her and got in my car to leave. By the way I drive a Kia.

Well we could not get going right away because I could not find my Ki... but after a while I remembered I left it under the mat.

So we finally got moving and my friends wanted me to turn up the music. I really like Rock and roll.

Well, that music got us in the mood to go out dancing, so we stopped at a local club. I'm not much of a dancer but someone offered to show me some moves. I asked if they could teach me to do the twist. Someone must have really liked my moves then because they started clapping. Of course that's when I hit the floor on my knees and bowed.... and that is the moment I realized that I might have an aikido problem.

As a newbie, I can't resist:

~if you come home from work and your house still smells like Tiger Balm.

- you wonder why the formal dress in America doesn't include hakama...

-you're friends had to stop hitting you (in a joking way, of course)

OK one more XD

you're never tired of explaining to you're friends that "no" you don't have a certain color belt... and "no" you don't compete...=)

lol

...you adjust your bicycle seat height in the hope it will give you IS.

Carl Thompson wrote: ...you adjust your bicycle seat height in the hope it will give you IS.

Ok, someone is going to have to explain this one to me because I don't get it. (Maybe there's hope for me yet.)

You might be an Aikido addict if you look for meaning in words like IT and IS.

Michael you will find the answers in the discussions on the subject of IT. IS is an acronym for Internal Strength I believe. I only just got the clue myself.

You might be an Aikido addict if ....

• After 4 hours of aikido at a seminar, look around and consider asking for more.
  
• After 2 hours of aikido practice, you actually ask sensei for ukemi practice.
  
• This becomes so common you don't have to ask; sensei immediately offers a hand or two.

After two days at an akido seminar you consider that if you get in the car right away you can get home in time to make it to that nights class.

I almost tried it too.

... if Silat class is cancelled and you go to Aikido

.... if your Silat training partners know you go to Aikido when Silat is cancelled.

... if your Silat training partners ask you if you're going to Aikido and/or advise you to do it when the instructor can't make it to class.

...if you oversleep on a Saturday, miss class and now feel like your entire weekend's ruined

David Maidment wrote: ...if you oversleep on a Saturday, miss class and now feel like your entire weekend's ruined

Aww, darnit. I did that a few weeks ago, when a power failure rendered my alarm clock useless (now I set my iPhone, too). I know just what you mean. Can you do some weapons practice on your own, at least. There must be some way to salvage the weekend.

I'm going to try to sacrifice my normal Sunday lie-in to be up in time for tomorrow's early morning class. Tonight I might swing a bokken around. I just wish we had a class on Monday -- four days is too long to wait if I miss the weekend!

You go to say thank you to a coworker for her help and you put your hands in the "praying" position (for lack of a better word). I did that twice today. I feel like a complete dork. HAHA.

Ashley - The word most commonly associated with the meaning of that gesture is namaste (the gesture itself is called something else - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namaste). It's pretty well recognized and understood everywhere. No reason to feel like a dork.

MyYMBAAAI moment for today: A client meeting notice pops up in Outlook, conflicting with a Tuesday appointment - the one Aikido class per week you are committed to being at, come hell or high water - and your heart sinks. And then you realize Outlook is only warning you that the times are adjacent, not overlapping, and you can breathe again.

You're at work, your supervisor gives you an instruction and you bow and say "Hai!"

Linda Eskin wrote: .... MyYMBAAAI moment for today ....

Took me a moment to realize what YMBAAAI stands for. But that leads me to a new entry:

You might be an Aikido Addict if....

.... you know what "YMBAAAI" stands for.

.... you started this thread and you feel a little proud that you spawned and achronime, too.