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Old 12-08-2015, 06:34 PM   #3
Janet Rosen
 
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Re: Koshinage trouble

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John Hillson wrote: View Post
Sore knees - I found I could keep my legs further apart making squatting easier if I learned to shift my weight well..
Apropos of that...a dojomate who had watched me deal with my one very bad knee made a suggestion one day and it has been amazing. I now incorporate it into working with beginners and also with the seniors in my All Fall Down! course:

Don't think about bending your knees.

Take a nice wide balanced stance. Put your mind instead at your (anatomical) hips - the crease of the groin and entire joint where the femur meets the pelvis - what the Chinese call the kua. Focus on softening and opening there, softening and opening....as you do, you drop more easily into a squat; the knees are just "along for the ride" and barely noticeable.

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