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Old 03-03-2015, 09:42 PM   #15
Jonathan
Dojo: North Winnipeg Aikikai
Location: Winnipeg, Canada
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Re: What does being an Uke mean to you?

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If the beginner has experience in other martial arts, yes. Otherwise, not so much. Beginners do not, in general, actually attack. And so their responses tend to be completely unrelated to anything that a real attacker -- skilled or not -- would attempt to do.
Well, this may be your experience but it hasn't generally been mine. There are beginners who are very tentative as uke, but there are others I have encountered - particularly males - who, having no formal martial arts experience but recognizing that they are practicing a martial art, do exactly as you say they tend not to do. Maybe the beginners I attract are just from a rougher, tougher demographic...

"Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend."
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