Currawong

I just finished HIPS. I think you have a very important point.

I can't help wondering if there isn't a strong mindset among many practitioners that when a technique is being practiced, that it MUST be completed, leading to frustration and force when they have an training partner that doesn't move how they are used to to having an uke move.

I was training the other day with a new member who, as I'm sure everyone has experienced, would step forward when an ikkyo (omote) was applied exposing their rear and making the technique difficult to impossible to do conventionally. As usual, I stopped and explained how to do ukemi for ikkyo and that it was for the purpose of maintaining their own balance and control during the technique. I expect that in many dojos people don't stop but instead try and force the beginner down instead, thinking that what they, TORI, are doing is "correct" so how dare it not work on a beginner.