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Carsten Möllering wrote:
I'm very sorry but I only get the half of your statement. (If it is a half at all ...)
Do you refer to ai hanmi or kosa dori?
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Kosa dori. the step is to the outside of the grabbing hand and the atemi is to the face with the free hand -- if he fails to lock or grab it, the atemi progrewsses through a sokumen iriminage, -- if he does grab it or block it, it can be either kokyunage or tenchinage, depending on whether you "splinch" (see below) him in place (tenchi nage) -- or roll him over himself (kokyunage)
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Carsten Möllering wrote:
To which book do you refer?
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The metaphorical one existing only in my addled brain... apologies -- English is not as concrete in its references as German -- or so I'm told by my cousin who is living there. My favorite definition of English is: "Bad German, spoken by Welshmen, with a Latin inferiority complex."
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Carsten Möllering wrote:
My dicitionaries don't know "to splinch".
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I know, neither do mine, and they are in English, but it is a
wonderful word invented by Ms. Rowling.
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Splinching, or the separation of random body parts, occurs when the mind is insufficiently determined. You must concentrate continually upon your destination, and move, without haste, but with deliberation…
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Basically that captures the image of tenchinage for me -- the body suddenly disarticulates into loose parts -- structurally speaking, of course. [For our German friends -- swords are, of course, necessary for the more concrete forms of bodily separation ...
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Carsten Möllering wrote:
What my dictionaries give me for "splay" and "splat" doesn't make sense here in my opinion.
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As I said they were "colorful" and "color" is notoriously hard to translate -- and I couldn't do German if my life depended in it.
My dictionary refers to "splay as "To spread (the limbs, for example) out or apart, especially clumsily." "Splay" in this context means to widely spread the structural elements of support, creating an open hinge so that it buckles and collapses -- "splat." When I do tenchinage properly, my uke typically feels this "hole" open up under and in front of them (or in the kosa variant above, under and behind) -- they teeter on the brink of it, and I simply lead them over and into it.
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Carsten Möllering wrote:
Can you help me?
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That remains to be seen. Let me know if it does.