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Old 02-20-2006, 08:58 PM   #19
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Re: small circle?

P.S. I believe it was John Stevens who reported that many of O'sensei's deshi saw lights when he used atemi on them. Perhaps he was striking pressure points which were inherent in a lot of locking pinning arts in the early days. The Daito-ryu people are real big on atemi.
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