{"id":264,"date":"2016-01-31T17:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/?p=264"},"modified":"2016-02-19T00:26:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-19T00:26:11","slug":"aikido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/31\/aikido\/","title":{"rendered":"Aikido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From Cradley Leisure Centre, Colmers Farm, to Birmingham Sports Centre.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-256\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikido-1-300x225.png\" alt=\"Aikido 1\" width=\"368\" height=\"276\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-261\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikido7.jpg\" alt=\"Aikido7\" width=\"372\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>So at the age<\/strong>\u00a0of fifteen I trained three nights a week at my local club, fascinated with Aikido\u2019s concept and in a matter of years reached First Degree Black Belt. Watching Martial Art films as a teenager was certainly a huge influence.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-259\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikido4.png\" alt=\"Aikido4\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-260\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikido6.png\" alt=\"Aikido6\" width=\"350\" height=\"463\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\">The Master Class consisted of training with black belts, security guards, bouncers and Police Officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\">I qualified and enjoyed the time I spent with many practitioners from across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-257\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikiado2-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"Aikiado2\" width=\"360\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikiado2-300x140.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikiado2.jpg 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-258\" src=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikido-3-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Aikido 3\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikido-3-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pyramidhead.forgot.his.name\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Aikido-3.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style\">I was 21 at the time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Watching Gav take his black belt was incredible, \u00a0 took down five guys in a few seconds&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Errol<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cradley Leisure Centre, Colmers Farm, to Birmingham Sports Centre. &nbsp; &nbsp; So at the age\u00a0of fifteen I trained three nights a week at my local club, fascinated with Aikido\u2019s concept and in a matter of years reached First Degree Black Belt. Watching Martial Art films as a teenager was certainly a huge influence. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[32,30,31],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-black-belt","tag-martial-arts","tag-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":812,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions\/812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/guitargav.writesthisblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}