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Old 04-11-2008, 01:30 PM   #5
dragonteeth
Dojo: Elkton Ki-Aikido
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Re: banging bokken on my head

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Ron Tisdale wrote: View Post
c) I promise that is my last cryptic ki comment for the year...
...but we like your cryptic ki comments!

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.

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*
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