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Old 03-16-2016, 04:23 PM   #17
Walter Martindale
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Re: Ukemi

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Katherine Derbyshire wrote: View Post
I've trained that way in the US, too. Not sure why it would be unique to Japan.

I would say that if your training doesn't involve a lot of ukemi -- on a regular basis, if not in all classes -- you're probably missing something important.

Katherine
I don't think I suggested it was unique to Japan. However many dojo I've practiced at in Canada have relatively extensive warm ups which include basic tai-sabaki and ukemi practice. More advanced sessions, however, a bit of stretching before it gets going, and here we go... Oh... and the practices in sessions that have the longer warm ups tend to be more like 90 to 120 minutes instead of an hour.
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