Thread: ukemi grace
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Old 08-11-2005, 08:32 AM   #4
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Re: ukemi grace

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Brenda Allen wrote:
Okay...my humble offering...excuse the phonetic spellings....

Amazing nage how sweet the sound
That saved an uke like me
I once was tossed, but could not land
Was thrown, but now take ukemi

Forward rolls were the pain of death
How to create that perfect ring
The arms eventually found the way
And now of ukemi I sing

Backward rolls left me confused
I hadn't the slightest clue
Then one day I was thrown full force
And suddenly my body knew

Executing kote gashe may be simple
But the ukemi may be extremely rough
With the proper partner throwing
A high fall is not that tough

Twas nikkyo that taught my heart to fear
And ukemi my fear released
By dropping fast and flat to the mat
In ukemi I first believed

Yonkyo left me bruised and battered
Crying out in object pain
But then I learned to drop flat to the mat
Saved by ukemi once again.

When I have trained ten thousand years
Techniques and miscellaneously
I will have released all pertinent fears
Regarding my ukemi
What the ? Heh heh....O sensei would have been proud. Hey, why not do a rap ?
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