No one on facebook (which is all my family because I don't have off the internet friends) pays any attention to my struggle of recovering my physical health so to the people who don't really know me and yet pay more attention....
I survived aikido class! I spent about 10 years doing aikido. The last 1-2 years I was struggling through mysterious symptoms and the beginnings of rapid weight gain. Today I am back for the first time since my surgery. I couldn't do falls. I attempted some rolls from kneeling and bad. Just bad. Class did not look promising. We spent the class showing the newer people the beginnings of take downs though and that went tons better. Aikido does not rely on strength and all the memory of endlessly doing these motions is still there. The people who don't know me from before were wondering if I was new that day and were very careful with me. Then they hit the mats at my feet. :lol: Not without care toward the new people of course. The really tall guy with thick wrists and strong forearms also fell to my nikyo right away and the only other person who managed that was the instructor's son. Everyone rapidly had a new opinion.
Sadly my strained left knee did not survive class and I started to get too hot. I was getting goose bumps on my burning skin. I did walk off the mats but the stairs to the bathroom when I got home nearly killed me and I think I've had what is usually 3 days worth of liquid in 6hrs. Long road ahead but after trying to convince myself all last winter I could be happy with low effort hobbies and tasks, caring for the animals and maybe I'll find some craft hobbies, it just all went up in smoke when I helped paint the new school and started hiking again. I would rather break something trying to do what I can't than sit around the house.
I survived aikido class! I spent about 10 years doing aikido. The last 1-2 years I was struggling through mysterious symptoms and the beginnings of rapid weight gain. Today I am back for the first time since my surgery. I couldn't do falls. I attempted some rolls from kneeling and bad. Just bad. Class did not look promising. We spent the class showing the newer people the beginnings of take downs though and that went tons better. Aikido does not rely on strength and all the memory of endlessly doing these motions is still there. The people who don't know me from before were wondering if I was new that day and were very careful with me. Then they hit the mats at my feet. :lol: Not without care toward the new people of course. The really tall guy with thick wrists and strong forearms also fell to my nikyo right away and the only other person who managed that was the instructor's son. Everyone rapidly had a new opinion.
Sadly my strained left knee did not survive class and I started to get too hot. I was getting goose bumps on my burning skin. I did walk off the mats but the stairs to the bathroom when I got home nearly killed me and I think I've had what is usually 3 days worth of liquid in 6hrs. Long road ahead but after trying to convince myself all last winter I could be happy with low effort hobbies and tasks, caring for the animals and maybe I'll find some craft hobbies, it just all went up in smoke when I helped paint the new school and started hiking again. I would rather break something trying to do what I can't than sit around the house.
