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Tim Evans wrote:
I hear yamada sensei fails blackbelts for this.
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He sure does lol
Yamada Sensei loves the big movements. According to my understanding... and from having Yamada Sensei yell at me "Extension, this is why I fail black belts." That extension is a big part of the big movements he is so famous for. That's at least what I gathered from it. Big movements, cover a lot of area with as few steps as possible, and don't let uke break into your personal space.
When I saw Yamada Sensei, it was like he was the axel of a wheel. Uke just spun around him, with a great amount of distance from him. They couldn't break into his personal space. He took big concise movements...Uke was running around 5 steps for his every one. I think it is his extension that amplified uke's movement... sort of like how the edge of a wheel travels a greater distance than the center of a wheel. That's at least what I gathered from it.