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12-24-2016, 02:13 PM
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
While I haven't been practicing aikido for a while now, it saved me a bad bruising Thursday (23 Dec).
At work, in a bit of a hurry, going from one place to another, stepping over skids of steel blocks... Oops, caught a toe, heading for a face-plant.
Haven't done a roll for about 5 years. Did a beauty - little bit tender on the spinous process of the left scapula - concrete machine shop floor - and a surprised employer. I think he was going to try to catch me (or thinking about filling out the safety report) but by then I was standing up, picking up the scales and pens that fell out of my pockets when I was upside down... Didn't even drop the (fortunately small) block of steel I was carrying.
Thank you to my judo and aikido training partners, sempai and sensei over the years. Christmas without a concussion is way better than the alternatives.
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12-24-2016, 04:13 PM
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Dojo: Open Sky Aikikai
Location: Durham, NC
Join Date: Apr 2013
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
Way to go Walter!
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12-24-2016, 07:27 PM
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Location: Left Coast
Join Date: May 2002
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
Most excellent :-)
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Janet Rosen
http://www.zanshinart.com
"peace will enter when hate is gone"--percy mayfield
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12-26-2016, 01:12 PM
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Dojo: Koshinkai Leeuwarden
Location: Leeuwarden
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
Nice, success is in the little things ;-)
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12-28-2016, 01:50 PM
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Dojo: Iwae Dojo
Location: Boulder Creek, CA
Join Date: Jun 2000
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
Congrats!
This sort of thing happens more embarrassingly often to me than I like to admit. Usually the back fall rather than the front, but both have happened. Often, due to all the training, I trip and catch myself without falling in situations where I would have fallen on my face in the past.
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Tarik Ghbeish
Jiyūshin-ryū AikiBudō - Iwae Dojo
MASAKATSU AGATSU -- "The true victory of self-mastery."
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12-29-2016, 11:25 AM
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
Thanks for the good feelings. Ukemi has saved my bacon a few times... Came off the bicycle a few times (gravel, or curb, or... for mae ukemi, falling off a window sill when the bit I was holding onto while prying on another bit, came away ushiro ukemi... ) What hurt the most in some of those occasions was when people got in the way trying to save me from the fall.
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12-29-2016, 12:28 PM
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Dojo: Atlanta School of Aikido
Location: Atlanta, GA
Join Date: Sep 2002
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
I have had several 'rolling saved my butt' letters from former students. Saved my son who got hit by a truck in Japan....a small truck. Something we tend to take for granted, but probably the most practical skill we get from Aikido.
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12-29-2016, 01:03 PM
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Dojo: Westminster Tenshinkai Aikido Dojo
Location: Fountain Valley, CA
Join Date: Oct 2004
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
Machine shop floor is a bit different from a mat, success nonetheless with minimal injury
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Chris Sawyer
Training day is every day
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01-04-2017, 09:30 AM
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Dojo: Berkshire Hills Aikido
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
So glad you are ok...that must have been scary.
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01-04-2017, 09:53 AM
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Location: Edmonton, AB
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Re: Ukemi saved me from getting busted up...
Quote:
Mary Eastland wrote:
So glad you are ok...that must have been scary.
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Thanks. All happened too fast to get scared... Glad there was open floor in front of me and not another skid full of steel or the forklift or... or...
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