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Old 05-17-2011, 05:48 AM   #19
Hanna B
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Re: Wrist Hangovers: Your Suggestions And Experience With Wrist Pain?

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Mary Malmros wrote: View Post
I was told (don't know if this is true) that the ikkyo-nikkyo-sankyo-kotegaeshi "stretches" that are commonly done as warmups, are really more strengthening exercises than stretches. Anyone know about this?

(every time I see someone, usually a guy, who's new to aikido, straining and groaning his way through these stretches, I wince. It seems counterproductive)
The way to use nikkyo-sankyo-kotegaeshi "stretches" as strengthening exercises, I believe, is to not let the grabbed arm - the one that gets nikkyoed, etc - passively follow the movement and be stretched, but to slowly and steadily resist the stretch.
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