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Focusing on aikido
Today I notified my Pekiti-Tirsia Kali instructor that I’ll be taking an indefinite leave from studying PTK. I just don’t have enough time to study two martial arts and I want to concentrate on the aikido 1st dan test. I’ll be taking the test no earlier than a year from now, but I still need to focus more on aikido and one way to do it is to start attending Pertti Lehväslaiho’s classes regularly.
I still think Pekiti-Tirsia Kali is something I’d like to understand better and I hope in the future I will get a chance to continue studying it.
Unicode, I like it
I’m a software developer and I like Unicode. I think I would like it if I wasn’t, but still. I just realized Unicode contains the characters used for Apple modifier keys:
Will that make a difference in my life, ever? Probably not, but I think it’s still cool that I could use those characters in text if I wanted to. As in, instead of writing press Option-Command-Esc
, I would write press ⌥ ⌘ Esc
. Yey!
1st kyu Grade Test
Had my 1st kyu grade test two days. All in all, it went pretty well and I’m happy with how it went. Manderbacka was judging the test and she commented that it looked “nätti” (“pretty”), which… I’m not 100% sure what that means, but I suppose it means it didn’t look ugly or awful. She did comment that I should do less, let uke do more. I was nervous in the test, so I probably didn’t want to give uke too much space or time, but I’m sure the comment also applies to my technique in general. Also, she said my technique had quite a lot of “mättö” (hard to translate, basically being a bit too heavy handed), but she did say that when you’re young, that’s the time for it if ever. One of the things she said that felt really nice was that my jiyuwaza looked like I hadn’t planned anything, that I hadn’t decided which techniques to use beforehand. The jiyuwaza was far from perfect, but it felp pretty good. I didn’t panic or get too overwhelmed by the attacks. There isn’t really anything I’d like to do differently, but it would have been nice if we could have show the jo katas more than once.
Now I can start studying aikido again, not just the grade test techniques. To start taking it easy again. I think I’m going to study jo kata 22, as it was removed from the grade test technique list and I didn’t practice it for the test.
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