For some reason it felt like a Monday today. Luckily at 6:02 pm I remembered it was Tuesday, because 6pm is when my daughter takes karate. (The girls flew home today.)

That’s me on the right.

Today I took part in her Aikido stick training. There was a 1/2 hour warm up we missed 10 mins of. Then for stick training, we worked in pairs. There are 13 zones of the body to strike at, and one person struck with their stick while the other person blocked with their stick. The Senei said she was pairing us up by size, and I got paired up with a 9 year old boy. He said he felt like a black belt when he was my partner because he knew so much more than me.

The karate warm up included 60 V-crunches with our legs crossed and our arms bent over our chests in a blocking position. I haven’t done crunches on a gym floor in a long time and it hurt to have my tailbone dig into the floor. I could have done twice as many V-crunches, if only I had a mat under my butt. I also did 10 (real) push ups.

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