I got the the HTGA meeting late tonight because I was at Aikido practice. I’m really enjoying it a lot. While we’ve done a little punching, we’ve mostly focused on safely redirecting the energy of an attack in a way that protects both me and my attacker. I also like all of the protocols, tradition, philosophy and meditation training.

My teacher is the student of the last student of the founder of Aikido, so it is fairly traditional – which I really like.