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John Riggs wrote:
Jun-nice tapes. That last one (the Russian version) looks awkward from twisting the body.
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Of course, that could just have been my awful re-rendering of that ukemi through my body. Maybe if I practiced for a bit...
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You've seen a 7th dan take ukemi-I haven't seen any higher than 6th and that's because he's a younger 6th.
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Heh. I've had many occasions to have sixth dan folks take ukemi for me; one happens to be our senior student here.
Also, just a short while ago, I had to perform a counter to ikkyo (known as "aiki otoshi" or "sukui nage") on an 8th dan who was uchideshi to the founder for 15 some odd years. (It goes without saying that had he not allowed me to do so, I wouldn't have been able to throw him. He wanted to show the dangers of brining uke in too close during ikkyo...)
-- Jun