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• Music: "This Free Will" by Jethro Tull

Kagami Biraki 2009

Every year, our discipline holds a workout in honor of Kagami Biraki (literally "opening the mirror"), which is a Japanese new year's celebration. All four NYC dojos get together for a big-ass workout led by the three senior shihans.

Ours was yesterday, and for the first time, we took a "class picture" before the workout:



I'm toward the back on the right (with the dark blue sweat band on my forehead).

It was an excellent way to start the new year, purging the old and kicking in with the new. (Kicking literally, in this case. *grin*)