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Old 02-21-2002, 06:14 AM   #2
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I voted no, and was suprised about the numbers of yeses!

I'm not worried about hurting someone during training because I take sensible action not to hurt them.

1. If they are new I make sure I do not do anything which they cannot safely fall or roll or even sit down out of.

2. I don't force on a technique if someone resists (I would rather change the technique).

3. the way I do my technique is in order not to hurt them (i.e. shiho-nage is taken down the length of their spine, rather than over an arm-bar, kote-gaeshi is taken in a direction just beyond their elbow rather than out to the side).

4. I try to make sure I'm not throwing an uke in the direction of someone else.

Injuries have happened, but they have been rare and it is hard to think they could have been avoided. Everything entails 'risk', its whether the risk is balanced by the benefit you get out of it.

If I worried about hurting people I would feel that would make things worse as my movements would be more erratic.

Ian
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