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Mary Malmros wrote:
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)
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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.