I filched this photo off of the Wind of Change aikido site. It is a photo of Mike Denton throwing yours truly outside on the lawn between the student union and the YMCA/Post Office building on the MSU campus. We're both skinny and we're wearing dark belts, so that would put it about 15 years ago. There are flowers behind us so it must have been late spring, when the weather was still cool enough to practice outside. If I remember rightly, this pic made it into the campus newspaper. Ah, the memory of our 15 minutes of fame...
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Blast from the past
I filched this photo off of the Wind of Change aikido site. It is a photo of Mike Denton throwing yours truly outside on the lawn between the student union and the YMCA/Post Office building on the MSU campus. We're both skinny and we're wearing dark belts, so that would put it about 15 years ago. There are flowers behind us so it must have been late spring, when the weather was still cool enough to practice outside. If I remember rightly, this pic made it into the campus newspaper. Ah, the memory of our 15 minutes of fame...
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Looks like fun! A great picture. Thanks for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteSo THAT'S what it looked like in the "good old days"
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