March 19, 2016 @ 2:00 PM
AMS takes the 5th kyu aikido test (highest level blue belt). She passed with flying colors! She’s now the highest ranking teen in the teen class.
5th Kyu Aikido Test
Category Archives: Aikido
Winter Retreat 2016 – Aikido Center of Mountain View
February 12, 2016
Group Photo
Arrived at CYO, Occidental.
B: “Nice… how’s your ankle? How are you liking it so far?”
A: “Ankle is doing okay. Having allergic reaction to pollen. 6:30 am aikido is my next class”
February 13, 2016
B: “How’s that working out – being the only teen? How’s the food?”
A: “food is great. i have to eat a lot more since i’m doing 4 hours of aikido. kinda tweaked my sprained ankle today in the last class; sitting out of afternoon zazen. it’s alright, nobody is super talkative and we all just sort of sit and chill on our own, so there isn’t a lot of pressure on me.”
B: “Glad the food is good. So you’re not sitting zazen? Other women besides Emily? The retreat is for reflection and camaraderie. ”
A: “I’m gonna sit zazen in the morning. I didn’t this afternoon bcuz of ankle and cough. there are 3 other women besides me n emily”
February 14, 2016
February 15, 2016
Aikido
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.
