This morning Benjamin and I were at the Santa Maria dojo to run through our weapons kata a few times. We got kind of a late start, so we were still there when the new tenant came in. He and his wife have done a tremeendous amount of work to get the place ready for their students and Soke's students to share.
I don't know if we're the first of Soke's students to work out on the new flooring or not. The floor is raised a few inches, which we joked made us feel strangely taller. The surface is carpet, which we are used to working on at Five Cities Keichu. However, it's a special padded carpet, designed for cheerleading and gymnatics. It's actually not at all a bad workout surface, although it has a different "feel" during kata than we've experienced before. But, then again, we've done kata on so many different surfaces (a variety of mats, wooden gym floors, hotel carpets, commercial carpets, home carpets, linoleum, laminate flooring, grass, sand, gravel, concrete, etc.) that we've grown used to adapting to whatever is under foot.
Students who are training Sankyu Ni or Nikyu Ni will, I imagine, love this floor!
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