August 20, 2015

AMS started training in Aikido by joining the Saturday Teen Class at the Aikido Center.  After about a month she was invited to start attending the Beginning/Basic Aikido class on MWF.  So she’s going to Aikido 4 times a week.  Her progress has been meteoric due to the amount of time she’s spending on the mat and her 10 years of ballet training.

September 19, 2015

AMS is now attending the Adult program on Saturday.  Soon she will join the other adult classes on Tuesday/Thursday.  We’re still trying to balance her schedule between school work load and Aikido.  She is also a founding member of the Paly Aikido Team.  Her teacher for that is also a black belt at the Aikido Center.  He has suggested she’s ready to test and because she’s training with the adults she will be able to skip two belts and go straight to BLUE.

November 21, 2015

Amelia has been accepted by the circle of black belts practitioners.  Although she has enough practice time to rank, she will wait to test for 5th kyu in March 2016.