My Aikido Sankyu Shinsa

I passed my Sankyu test today. Overall, calming my mind was probably the hardest and most costly. I made a few small mistakes and hit a mental block once but after watching the video it wasn't too bad. I need to slow up the bokken work to make it even cleaner and work on looseness in the shoulders and clean power. The aikido was fine, felt clean and looks decent. It could probably have been slowed up a bit too. Now I will be wearing a hakama at Shin Budo Kai which looks really cool ;-) and allows me to attend the advanced class, but means that I need to set a strong example, help junior students, train harder and push on towards my next shinsa.