Caspar and Jono

I took up Shodokan Aikido about 6 months ago; our club is run by a former world champion and 5th dan, Scott Allbright.

I have been training about 3 times a week since then. We all graded today and I got my 2nd green belt and became a 3rd kyu! In order to grade we had to do a shodohai, which is basically a randori/sparring competition. I didn't do too well but this fight was pretty exciting.

Tried the sport function on my cheap camera to capture it, but the delay meant I kept missing the action and I probably should have used the flash. It's hard to tell the quality on the diddy screen. D'oh!