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Justin Tom wrote:
Did you actually do ukemi rolls in the grocery store aisle? Did anyone see you do it?
I was only brave enough to attempt rolls on the school's hard tiled floors.
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The late Kawahara Yukio shihan told us we had to be able to do rolls/ukemi on concrete without getting hurt. Tripped on some steel at work a few years back, nearly clobbered the employer with the steel toed boots on the way over but got up, picked up the scale, pens, other things that scattered out of my pocket and kept walking. 'nother time, new job, second day, stepping over an oar on the dock when the person on the other end of the oar pushed the handle down as they were pushing away from the dock (raising the oar shaft) right when I was stepping over it... Roll (across a couple of other oars on the dock)... few bumps from the oars but walked away from that one, too.