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Old 11-05-2004, 08:18 PM   #91
raul rodrigo
Location: Quezon City
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Re: Would you correct your sempai?

In this particular case,the uke crouching down to prevent irimi-nage, my shihan taught me a tsubo using the thumb and middle finger applied to the face of uke just inside the jawbone, where the molars are. Applied hard, it makes uke rear back instinctively and then you can move in with irimi-nage. It hurts and that too is part of aikido. But for me to have done this to someone from another dojo (a whole other aikido federation actually) would created tensions between the two groups that I didn't want to get into at that point. So to me its not a matter of not having the technique to work against the resistance, its a question of, as I said, what was honest resistance at that point. Against someone from my own dojo, I would have no compunction about using that method against a recalcitrant uke.
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