Hi, my name is Linda Eskin. In May of 2009, at age 46, I came to Aikido to improve my horsemanship. It's become about much more than that for me.
I train with Dave Goldberg Sensei at Aikido of San Diego.
Everything I say here is just what I say. Don't believe me. Find out for yourself.
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A LITTLE ABOUT ME
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I am a beginning student of Aikido, a martial art that, like horsemanship, takes a lifetime to master. These posts are only my own observations on my own experience. You should not rely on anything I say here. Any inept or incorrect information is my own responsibility, and should not be a reflection on others.
I am grateful to
Dave Goldberg Sensei for being an extraordinary teacher, and for creating an engaged, thinking, and compassionate community of students and teachers at
Aikido of San Diego. If you are in the area, visitors are always welcome to observe classes. If you are a student at another local dojo, keep an eye on
our dojo calendar for upcoming seminars and other events.
Copyright 2009, 2010, 2011, Linda Eskin. Please feel free to share any of my poetry, online, or in print, keeping my name and any other acknowledgments with it. I will almost certainly be happy to let you use anything else I've posted here, with proper attribution, but please ask first.
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3rd Kyu Test Prep - The Real Story
A few days ago I posted a note to myself on preparing for my upcoming 3rd kyu exam. My test is tomorrow morning. Here’s how things have really gone:
- Do laundry and cut your nails two or three days ahead. [check]
- Go to class on Friday night.
- Stay after to work out a few questions on some techniques.
- Pick out a jo and bokken to use, and put them where you can find them on the rack.
- Decide to burn off some nervous energy and get settled by cleaning a little.
- Put on music.
- Sweep the mat, vacuum, wipe down some stuff, clean up cobwebs.
- Take out the trash and recycling.
- Check out the jo, and discover a rough spot. Find another one you like better.
- Decide it’s important to remove the years-old “Made in Japan” sticker from the jo.
- Find the Goo Gone. Remove the sticker goo and create a little clean spot.
- Decide to clean the whole jo with a damp rag and a little soap.
- Notice that it’s not a slick as it should be. Find weapons repair kit in dojo bag.
- Oil jo. Run through the first 10 jo suburi just to be sure it still works OK.
- Close up and go home.
- Get confused about the start of yon no suburi while driving.
- Feed cats and donkeys.
- Review your Giant Spreadsheet of Technique Notes.
- Try a slow-mo in-motion technique on husband to be sure of how it goes.
- Set up the coffee maker for morning.
- Notice that it’s late.
- Decide to wash hair in the morning instead.
- Write a blog post.
- Go to bed.
Still working on that whole masakatsu agasu thing…
