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Hanna B · 06-08-2003, 10:29 AM

I was to a seminar the other weekend. The instructor reprimanded students who blocked atemi. "In aikido, we work with distance. If you block, it becomes less interesting." In his case, I suppose the question should be

"If you move away from an atemi, would the teacher hit you?"

06-08-2003, 10:29 AM	#5
Hanna B Location: Stockholm, Sweden Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 649 Offline	I was to a seminar the other weekend. The instructor reprimanded students who blocked atemi. "In aikido, we work with distance. If you block, it becomes less interesting." In his case, I suppose the question should be "If you move away from an atemi, would the teacher hit you?"