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Old 08-20-2014, 03:28 AM   #48
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Re: YouTube: Morihei Ueshiba (O-Sensei) in 1968

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Ellis Amdur wrote: View Post
I do not think I have ever seen a video of Ueshiba in which his uke do not "tank."
Maybe that was for the purpose of demonstration.

According to what my own teacher told (who trained in hombu between '55 and '65 before he was sent to germany), there was no choice to be compliant ore not. You were thrown before you knew what happened.
He told often that he didn't know why his body began to move, nore why he landed on the ground, although he was one the best trained uke in hombu dojo at that time.

In normal training techniques were different from what was shown in demonstrations.
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