About This
This is a place where we can talk about techniques learned in class, things to remember, and things to improve. This is mainly to keep a record of how our learning is progressing at Masa Kokoro with Ben Sensei.
I used to make a journal of Aikido techniques that Sensei has taught me in a coil book. I quickly found that flipping back and forth between pages to keep techniques organized became challenging. Also, I could not at-a-glance see all my notes for a particular technique. That is when I decided to make this journal. The information on techniques is meant to be terse because it is hard to learn Aikido by reading a book or web pages. Thus, the purpose of this is to keep a record of what techniques we have been focusing on, and what others need attention.
Like Aikido, with a few remarks here and there after class in this journal, after years more of training it will be quite a surprise to look back and see just how much training has been done!
- Eric Draken