The last practice of the year was energetic: a good deal of jigeiko, and advice from Sensei: that I should remember how I treat my girlfriend: softly, gently rather than tensely and so hard. The routine was not much beyond the usual ashi-sabaki (with SAR) and some basic kihon culminating in uchikomi-geiko (men, kote-men, doh, kote-doh, men-taiatari-men, men). Practice itself was pretty unremarkable--I felt like I could have kept on going, though my knuckle still kept on getting nailed. Does this mean something about my kamae?