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Showed up at honbu and immediately realized it's the first Tuesday of the month: jo day.
A ridiculous number of people (12 at one point) jammed into the dojo to practice.
Admittedly, jo is not my thing, for several reasons:

1. it's really, REALLY hard
2. it's not a sword

So I wasn't that into it, but damn if it ain't alot of fun. Paired up with Elvis and he's most into it; lots of aiki jo in his blood anyway, and plus the mechanics of jo are much closer to aiki than to sword.
I admit it's a damn good way to learn some fundamentals that we can all stand to work on; distance, timing, generating power from the hips.