Jane Tao wrote
>Okay, have you ever noticed that >at the beginning of a back roll or >the end of a forward roll that the >'rear' foot can either be dorsal >side down('dead' toe) or plantar >side down ('live' toe)?
No. I just do my roll ;-)
Did you specifically recruit newbies with two left feet ;-)
>We must train ourselves our of >that hesitancy. At least that's >what I've seen in all of the >novices that come in each >semester.
Any tips for speeding that up? I'm still having troubles with my highfall ukemi.
>Cog? Neural nets?
One of our local uni's has a cognative science department that's heavy into the computer modelling of human movement. (the biomech and cog science guys share labs in 1st yr I think) Though I don't have any of the details ;-(
Focus on building expert systems and such. It would be cool to create a "ukemi expert system" and see how it develops.
>Oh now that's ironic, I've been >looking at UofA possibly for their >doctoral program.
The wheather here is much kinder. The fees are less. And also, there's lots of good aikido about.
http://www.uwa.edu.au/
http://www.hmes.uwa.edu.au/
>You're silly. Do you suppose >pinched wires would be affected >the same as pinched axons?
Troll. You *know* that axons don't pinch ;-)
No, more of an "information gone askew" thing. Like, why do people get idiopathic scoliosis...yadda yadda. Just started it, not sure which direction to go in yet.