A friend of mine was a student of Hiroshi Isoyama Sensei in Japan for several years. Also trained msny many years here in a Kokikai dojo. He has now opened an Aikido school near where I live. I am gong to go check it out this evening, if time allows. Problem is that I know I am going to want to give it a try, at least the first free lesson, but Mrs Xue is dead set against it. Yet something keeps telling me I should try Aikido. But then something else keeps telling me that I'm old, arthritic, have one bad knee, a fake knee and I'm recovering from a rotator cuff tear....what am I crazy!? And of course Mrs Xue will not be happy about it at all.