No pictures for distribution as yet, but I picked up my gi (karate outfit) last Thursday after class, and wore it for the first time last evening. Yes, I am now committed (and got some nice comments over it and over getting the belt tied more-or-less correctly).<\/p>\n
An observation, though: A t-shirt is much lighter (and less heat\/sweat-inducing) than a t-shirt with a gi<\/em> robe over it. This seems obvious, but for some reason escaped me, leaving me very hot and sweaty (well, relatively so). That’s not good, but it’s better to have an undershirt on and not get the gi all sweat-stained, or so is my current thinking.<\/p>\n Biggest other problem is that the pants are just a scosh long (which means they’re significantly long, since they should be definite “high-waters,” by my observation). I may have to ask Margie for a hemming job.<\/p>\n On a positive note, I more or less got the sequence moves down on my first kata<\/em>, which means all I have to do is do them right. Fortunately, I have a few more months to work on that before testing to get out of my white belt. 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