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Old 03-18-2011, 04:51 PM   #4
Hellis
Dojo: Ellis Schools of Traditional Aikido
Location: Bracknell
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Re: Being Uke - Make Instructor Look Good?

Of course a good uke can make a technique look more spectacular.
I was not one for taking my own flying uke everywhere with me, I would just use whoever was there, I would say " no matter how you breakfall you are going, how you do it is up to you.

In the late 1960s I was on TV with TK Chiba Sensei, he threw me and to my shame I over did the ukemi, Sensei growled in my ear " Mr Ewiss , I can throw you without your help "" never did that again.

Henry Ellis
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