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Old 04-11-2008, 02:05 PM   #8
chunie
Dojo: Sho Shin Aikido Dojo
Location: Amsterdam
Join Date: Mar 2008
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Re: banging bokken on my head

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Lori Snidow wrote: View Post
To fix the pinky and yokomen thing, try taking all of your fingers off the bokken except your pinky and ring fingers, and then practice for a little while. Once you get used to gripping with those two only, slowly add the others back in. Chances are you may be too tight in your first finger/thumb area when your grip should be looser there and tighter towards the ring/pinky area. That worked for me, hope it does for you too.
Thx for the advice, I do already try use my pinky and ring finger mostly for firmness, maybe at the moment I'm just holding to tightly with those fingers. I'll work on that the coming months.

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Now I have to go get this aggrivating song out of my head. Remember the old "raindrops are fallin on my head?" That tune is now stuck in my crazy noggin which has added different words - "bokkens keep droppin on my head, yokomens keep slippin off my little fingers..." *sigh*
Yes, thx for the singing in my head aswell
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