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Joe Curran wrote:
However I have trained under Shihan like ...
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I know.
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My main teacher over the last 4 decades has been Chiba Sensei.
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I'm aware of that.
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... I am a 6th Dan Shihan,...
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Yes. I know.
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I think I will give your suggestion a miss ...
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I didn't expext, you would and didn't mean my advice too serious ...
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I never practiced with this teacher. But as I said, I think I recognize a lot of what he is doing. I remember Ikeda Hiroshi sensei teaching similar guiding-before-pyhsical-contact-stuff. The third video shows some of the basic exercises, Endō sensei teaches. (And wich I try to teach in my classes.) Guiding and controlling uke by weird and playfull ways of contact I remember as a speciality of Yamashima sensei.
Also when I read, that Kanaya sensei originally was a committed student of Iwama ryū and used to practice with Saito sensei and only after having practiced this for a period of time changed to a more soft understanding of keiko, this remembered me of the biography of my sempai, our shihan - and also me myself: Studying clear basics for a long time. And then changing to a certain, more soft way, that is built on those basics.
So, when you asked "How is this feat done ...?" I felt 'provoked' to answer you - with a wink.
No offence ...