Janet Rosen

This may be a tad off-track, but it is what occurred to me in reading the end of the original thread, and seems more apt on this newer thread. It is something that came up on the mat last night.
The instructor was talking about what I consider "zanshin" but he was discussing as "ki" - the staying connected on a non-physical level with your uke after throwing. A sempai asked how one projects that kind of energy when doing more of a down than an out technique w/o driving a less experienced or fit uke really hard into the mat. The answer from the instructor was about control and sensitivity.
But my mind immediately went to the way I very often finish a throw at that down angle regardless of who uke is: with no conscious effort on my part I find myself visualizing putting one of my patients to bed, an act of tenderness - uke is off balance and I'm simply laying him down.