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Jennifer Yabut wrote:
Has it occurred to you that it may not be a "woman thing"?
I often go after the bigger guys on the mat to test my technique. The guys *really* throw me - and I *like* it.
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I have to agree with Jennifer on this one. I need a lot of work on my ukemi! I have been working with a lot of the new people lately, mainly teenage girls, and I have not been thrown around hard enough to get some good hard throws in! I am using the time to concentrate on cleaning up my movements while teaching them the fundamentals. When we are done practicing a move, I have one of the big guys come over and work through with them so that they know what it's like to have to defend them selves.
I also don't think its an issue of the size of a person either, from what I understand O'sensei was not too tall of a person !
~TG