ChristyPurdychristyp Christy Purdy has been at Seattle School of Aikido since 1982, and considers Mary Heiny and several of Mary’s then-senior students--Pam Cooper, Joanne Veneziano, George Ledyard--as her main teachers. Prior to joining SSA, Christy practiced Aikido casually at a small dojo in Kyoto, Japan for three years while she was teaching English. Christy received her nidan in 1988. “When I first joined the dojo, I trained in the early morning because of schedule conflicts with evening class. Now it's a habit. After all these years, I still don't like getting up for 6:30 a.m. classes, but I love the way I feel after training at that hour--or any other.” ChristyP.jpgFriday2010-09-10T07:00:00-04:002010-09-10T08:00:00-04:00GeneralAdultchristypMonday2010-09-13T07:00:00-04:002010-09-13T08:00:00-04:00GeneralAdultchristyp