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Old 10-13-2008, 09:55 AM   #35
maynard
Dojo: St. Pete Aikikai
Location: Pinellas Park, FL
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Re: Koshi Nage

The usual recommendation that I've seen in my little circle of friends is to keep the feet close together. If the feet are too far apart, sometimes uke lands on nage's leg, potentially causing injury to nage's knee via pressure from the outside of the leg while the leg is being used as a support.

Having one's feet close together is a little awkward at first, but balance with one's feet close together while bearing uke's weight can be learned and developed. Of course, as Amdur Sensei and others have noted, ideally, there should be little to no load during the throw, but we all have to start somewhere.

Last edited by maynard : 10-13-2008 at 10:01 AM.
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