Pictures from my test are up on my flickr site. Here is the direct link.
While it looks like we are the only people on the tatami, there is actually another group behind me. Only two groups of people were tested at a time, the matspace was divided into half for this. Each half was about 12 x 20 tatami. Pretty large as you can tell by the picture.
If there was any doubt that I failed, let it be gone. I was fitted for hakama and new belt today. Plus they dropped the bomb on me telling me how much it costs to register with aikikai..
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