Yesterday our aikidoka friend Daniel visited us here in Tivon. The aikido class for the day was given by me and therefore it was extra fun with a visitor on the mat. The class was moved up to lunch-time instead of in the evening since it was a holiday eve. The class was loads of fun and I had them trying out some tricky things besides a lot of useful aiki exercises. After class we played around for a while and it was so great having someone that really knows how to throw me confidently. Daniel is able to express a lot of power in the high iriminage without loosing his sensibility and I was lyrical, since I don't really have anyone here that can do that just yet.
Maybe he did not use THIS much power, but almost... ;)
In the afternoon we had a BBQ in the Pecan grove and we grilled pargiot (de-boned chicken legs) and Samir's ktzitzot (meatballs). Besides that I had made a pita dough and we brought the sagg (or taboon), which is like a wok but upside down, on which you bake the pitot. On a sagg you make thin taboon bread, typical for e.g. the Druze. The first piece of dough that Yoram put on the sagg was however not thin and it became a disaster. Don't ask me why he did that, since he has used a sagg a thousand times, but maybe you can look at the picture in educational purpose, like a "do and don't". The dough was anyway excellent, made from whole-wheat and fresh yeast. We stayed until the sun went down, climbed up to Alexander Zaïd to see the sunset and then we kept on at home in the evening, talking and sipping single malt whisky. Life it great!
The sagg with one bad pita and one good pita
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