become good at aikido

There was a seminar with Saito Hitohiro sensei during the Easter weekend. It was wonderful, and I somehow ended up training right in front of him for every weapons class. I’m verily terrible but I tried my best, and got told that I was doing a good job by him. Hopefully one day I’ll be at a point where I’ll be able to follow all of his instructions to the letter / remember all of the basics (such as hamni as mine is ABISMAL) effortlessly.

Finally went back to aikido on Friday ^_ – evil exams got in the way before. Am supposedly being graded for 3rd kyu in December. Will be painful. NEED to PRACTICE, because I want it to be a better grading than my previous one (I had 3 mistakes in that one, and the maximum you can have is 5). The guy I was meant to grade with before I busted my wrist back in February graded with no mistakes on this grading, and I want to (shallowly) do as well. Or at the very least, do the best I can do.