Reopening:Keeping It Going

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We are in our second week of inddors contact training, using the Mt View dojo as a training space. Even though it is a 20 minute drive to get to training, it has been a new and fresh experience.  One cannot underestimate the importance of human contact in the Aikido experience. and the immediate feedback one gets from a partner on the mat(uke) is priceless on so many levels.

We have now gone through 2 Wednesday classes sandwiched around a Sunday class. Again classes are Wednesdays noon to 1pm and Sunday mornings 11:30am to 1pm. A special waiver available online must be signed online and proof of vaccination must be provided. before you can get on the mat. No exceptions. We had to turn away a young woman this morning because she did not know of the online waiver. Hopefully she will be back to try out a class.

Class size has been consistently around 8 people. We are hoping longtime students we haven't seen in a while will drop in. We have not been doing weapons, which we have focused on during the pandemic.

For now I want to use the time for people to have the contact with one another and to start to move.

We did some chanting sound at the end of class which I hope people enjoyed. We need to set the recording for the original sound to avoid some of the distortions that come about during some Zoom recordings. So next indoor contact class will be this Sunday.

We are continuing the online classes Mondays and Fridays at noon. Onegai shimasu...