setteling into pins. stretching exercise help

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[tim evans]

Any tips or strecting exercises to help me settle into my pins better shom.ikkyo pins ,kotegaeshi pins,ect. I feel like tippimg over instead of settling into the ground.thanks

[Rob Watson]

Really requires tori to go slowly and give you a chance to relax into it. Concentrate on keeping your balance and get into position and relax and settle into it and let them apply a nice slow stretch.

[tim evans]

Thanks Rob

[Rob Watson]

I like to start by making certain that my shoulder is on the mat (while being pinned). This helps tori appreciate the need to get the shoulder down (otherwise escape/reversal is really pretty easy) as well as giving us both something besides the 'finishing' move to focus on and helps slow things down so the mechanics can be correct/corrected and the stretch can happen slowly.

Remember that these 'techniques' are really conditioning exersizes so the ending up pinned is really not the correct end state of the drill.