Passed 4th kyu!

Long time no post, I know. Sorry for that. I've just had too much going on.

Aikidowise, many things happened. Japan is coming nearer and nearer, I've trained a lot in the meantime and on Saturday, January 6 2007 I passed 4th kyu!
Of course I still made a lot of mistakes but as our Senseis pointed out, those errors are meant to be as a motivation in future and we showed quite
a good exam considering our level. Even more, while the others (higher ranked) congratulated, they meant that we youngsters have a very good level for beginners.
E.g. that we're interested and doing already techniques they were just dreaming of on this certain level.

Anyway, I've weared the orange belt 2 times so far and he's so new, my dogi has some orange bands. I will have to wash the belt at some point. Dogi needs to be clean white ;-)

Here are some pictures from the exam. You can get more of them on my flickr account.

Me doing shihonage:




Me doing Iriminage:




Mago doing kotegashi with a big grin on his face (nice!):




And here's a video showing me doing kata-tori nikkyo:



All photos and videos were taken by daria, many thanks for this.

Yours,

Lemy