Thread: Uke or Tori?
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Old 04-14-2004, 09:07 AM   #1
Dario Rosati
Dojo: Zanshin - Milan
Location: Milan
Join Date: Oct 2003
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Question Uke or Tori?

Hi all, just a little thought from a beginner, and wondering what you people may think about it...

I'm practicing from eight months, and
until the last month my time was equally split on both activities during a lesson (Tori/Uke); in the last month I focused myself on being almost exclusively uke (80% uke/20% tori), both in the dojo and to a local seminar, bothering more often sensei himself or 1st/2nd kyu guys to get splattered around the mat by them rather than doing the technique myself

To my surprise, it seems (to me) that I'm improving faster with this unbalanced approach, especially in "basic" techniques: being thrown 10 times in first place makes me throw others much better at my first attempt, much better than starting directly as tori after watching sensei and his uke demonstrating.

Do you think it's a false perception, or that the thing is the symptom of some hidden "hole" in my training, or what elese?

I'm about to ask my sensei about this.

Bye!

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