Aikido

Took my fifth aikido class today. I now know the meaning of constant pain.

Being 6'3" and heavy sack of meat doesn't help where gravity is concerned. I've got too much weight on my bones, so much so that trying to do a forward roll only causes my leading arm to bend. In other words, I need to learn how to make my front arm rigid like a roll bar, tuck my head and allow gravity to take over. But after 38 years of learning how to stand up, learning how to move on a horizontal plane is a whole new concept. Fortunately, I know it will come.

On the side of accomplishment, I've executed some fairly complex techniques today with some fluidity, moving faster and faster until I was confident I knew it. Of course, with my memory I will have forgotten it one day from now. That's the beauty of being me with a poor short term memory: everything is new to me the second time around.