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samurai_kenshin · 10-01-2005, 02:09 PM

My favorite variation on this comes from a senior student at the dojo I train in: "Atemi is 90%, uke's face is the other 10."
Whichever way it goes, I think atemi is immensely important to aikido...or at least mine.

10-01-2005, 02:09 PM	#4
samurai_kenshin Dojo: Aikido of San Leandro Location: Oakland, Ca Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 209 Offline	Re: atemi is 90% of Aikido My favorite variation on this comes from a senior student at the dojo I train in: "Atemi is 90%, uke's face is the other 10." Whichever way it goes, I think atemi is immensely important to aikido...or at least mine.
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