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Old 07-10-2008, 03:05 PM   #110
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Re: Making Kote Gaeshi Work - With Resistance

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Pauliina Lievonen wrote: View Post
....But my first thought when I was watching was also that the way tori was putting in force was also helping you to ground
That's what I was trying to say.

In my experience, in the application of force which is intended to "drop" a person, sometimes it actually grounds them, especially if the connection to center isn't.... solid, or whatever, i.e., it's more peripheral.

Larry Novick
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