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Old 04-06-2004, 12:07 PM   #121
Don_Modesto
Dojo: Messores Sensei (Largo, Fl.)
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Thanks for the quick response.
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Jun Akiyama (akiy) wrote:
I'm not too sure what you mean by a shoulder-to-shoulder fall in a front breakfall. Do you have a clip or a reference somewhere that I can see?
Working from memory, I seem to recall Waite, in the first of his two UKEMI videos, doing the roll across his shoulders to finish his fall on the side opposite where his hand first hit the mat. Lovely blending with the mat.

There were several people in Peter Bernath's dojo who did this in exemplary fashion. I regret spending so much time envying them and so little pestering them to teach me. Alas!

Don J. Modesto
St. Petersburg, Florida
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