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Old 05-31-2010, 01:11 PM   #7
RED
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Re: extension/letting techniques develop

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Tim Evans wrote: View Post
I hear yamada sensei fails blackbelts for this.
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.

Last edited by RED : 05-31-2010 at 01:13 PM.

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