Thank you. I do my best to protect my partners, even if they are bigger and stronger - I try to throw them where they won't hit a mirror or fall onto concrete, I look out for other flying bodies and wait till the coast is clear. I'm familiar with training bumps and bruises, those are par for the course (I joked with a friend that we should set up a Tumblr for bruises and play "guess the technique", e.g. hand bruise for kote gaeshi, arm bruise for sumiotoshi) but I'm not on board with damage inflicted because someone wasn't paying close enough attention or because they were inflating their ego.
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Lynn Seiser wrote:
It is my responsibility to protect my training partner.
It is my responsibility to protect myself in training.
In training we get hurt (we are all learning) ...
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