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Drew Ames wrote:
Szczepan,
Did you attend a seminar with Ellis Amdur in Harrisburg, PA a few years ago?
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Unfortunatly no, I've never had a chance to meet him. But I'm not sure if he'll be very happy to practice with me
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Drew Ames wrote:
A question for you: how do you teach beginners to give a "high quality, spontaneous attack"? It seems to me that the ability to attack well follows the ability to fall well.
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oh, quite few of them have MA background, boxing, karate, judo, kung fu etc...so they have no problems. Others take exemple from them or are corrected every time when they attack is weak, or out of target, or full of openings(I do a lot of one-to-one practice to be sure that attack is right and powerfull). Nobody has right to RUN while attacking, in typical aikido way of attacking. We do a lot of static exercises and in the end of every class we do 10 minutes of jiu waza (any technique, any attack) -- even beginners after 1 month of practice.
No, they don't need to know how to fall well, in the end of technique we are able to slow down, to protect attacker from his own power