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Old 12-28-2006, 01:13 PM   #385
Mike Sigman
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Re: How to teach and train relaxation

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James Young wrote:
Absolutely. Abe-sensei has an exercise where he has people grap him strongly in morote-dori and then he returns that energy back to them with a slight wrist motion which in turn takes their center. When I practice this I can sometimes do it but my wrist movement is quite visible. When Abe-sensei does it his movement can be practically invisible as he talks about getting it down to 1mm or less.
Another factor to consider also is how cooperative the Uke's are. Many times I watch a demo that I can grok the point of but I can't fully judge how valid the demo is because of that floating percentage between skill, strength, and uke-cooperation. I'll bet if some of the partners you tried it with also became uke's for Abe Sensei doing the same demo, you really wouldn't be sure exactly how much of it was due to Abe's skill versus Uke's shill.

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Mike
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