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Old 10-04-2007, 01:31 AM   #14
raul rodrigo
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Re: No suwariwaza techniques at Nippon Kan

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Peter Gröndahl wrote: View Post
So what you are saying is that the wide hanmi that Saito used in the 70s are "very aikikai" and the more narrow hanmi of later date are not?
The wider hanmi he used then were standard, more or less, for the Aikikai. Then the stance started to become narrower and yes, to my knowledge, that is not at all common, outside of the Iwama lineage. (I tried to adopt it in a Hitohiro Saito seminar and it made my lower back ache.) You would disagree?

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