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08-13-2007, 08:53 PM
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Location: Kasama
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Hairy Wrists!
This is the latest legend I heard about aikido practice.
Ever noticed how hairy your sensei's (and other experienced aikido practitioner's) wrists are? Apparently, all that grabbing stimulates the blood flow to the hair follicles, encouraging hair-growth. Understandably, a female student was particularly concerned about this. I'm a bit dubious on this one myself. In fact, I'm sure one of my sempai has tracks of baldness around his forearms where the hairs have been worn out.
What do we reckon, people?
Regards
Carl
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08-13-2007, 09:21 PM
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
well, i'm middle eastern. if aikido stimulates more body hair then i have a serious problem.
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08-13-2007, 09:33 PM
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Dojo: Bucks County Aikido
Location: Pennsylvania
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Well I am bald. So if that is true, in theory could that grow hair on my head?
LOL
Last edited by Eliot : 08-13-2007 at 09:40 PM.
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08-13-2007, 09:40 PM
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Let's not focus on the negative. Assuming this legend proves to be scientifically sound, there could be some beneficial applications. Perhaps we should consider the introduction of such attacks as "receding hairline-tori" and "bald-patch-osae"?
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08-13-2007, 09:59 PM
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Dojo: Aikido of Petaluma, Petaluma,CA
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Aikimyth # 5028547
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08-13-2007, 10:53 PM
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Location: Left Coast
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
what she said.
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Janet Rosen
http://www.zanshinart.com
"peace will enter when hate is gone"--percy mayfield
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08-14-2007, 01:49 AM
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Dojo: Aikido of South OC
Location: Lake Forest, CA
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
I've noticed it. My first sensei said that when he started aikido his wrists had very little hair, and now his wrists are very hairy. I've noticed it on myself too, a darker band of hair right in the "grab zone" after 2 1/2 years of practicing.
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08-14-2007, 01:59 AM
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Dojo: Lunds Aikidoklubb
Location: Lund, Sweden
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
I've noticed it too. So has other old-timers at our dojo.
Maybe it's more pronounced for us "hard grabbing" Iwama folks?
/J
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08-14-2007, 06:23 AM
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Dojo: Seibukan Aikido UK
Location: body in UK, heart still in Japan
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
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A difficult problem is easily solved by asking yourself the question, "Just how would the Lone Ranger handle this?"
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08-14-2007, 06:44 AM
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Dojo: Seibukan, Milton Keynes
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Looks like you beat me to it again Bryan.
A few millimetres and I will have joined up!
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08-14-2007, 01:12 PM
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Dojo: Aikido of Midland
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Then explain why the grabbing palms are not as equally hairy.
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08-14-2007, 01:22 PM
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Dojo: Seibukan, Milton Keynes
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Because that would be too weird.
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08-14-2007, 01:34 PM
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
I don't think palms normally grow hair at all, even the very short very fine almost-invisible hair (at least mine don't, and I've never seen a person with hairy palms). Wouldn't it take a different mechanism to grow hair in a previously hairless place than to grow coarser hair in a place where there was finer hair?
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08-14-2007, 01:55 PM
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Dojo: Aikido of Petaluma, Petaluma,CA
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
As implied in the original post- if the friction of grabbing makes hair grow, why do so many men have smooth ankles under their socks when their legs are generally hairy?
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08-14-2007, 01:59 PM
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Dojo: Dangayan Singkaw Aikido Shinzui Group Philippines
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
No, grabbing wrists doesn't cause hairy palms.. it's grabbing... err... something else!
Sorry! Couldn't resist..
Oh yeah, and the hairy palms thing is a myth too..
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Inocencio Maramba, MD, MSc
Dangayan Singkaw Aikido Shinzui
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08-14-2007, 05:53 PM
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Sorry for posting a thread that has been done before. I figured it was so strange that I didn’t even bother with the search function. And yes, funnily enough, I heard the original story from an Iwama guy.
I’d still be interested to know if any dermatological evidence was found to support or disprove this.
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08-14-2007, 05:57 PM
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Dojo: Confluence Aiki-Dojo / Santa Cruz Sword Club
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Quote:
Jo Adell wrote:
Aikimyth # 5028547
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Yeah it follows the reason of another familiar myth that relates to hairy palms and touching...or something like that
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Jennifer Paige Smith
Confluence Aikido Systems
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08-14-2007, 06:33 PM
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
I think there would need to be hair follicles in the area being stimulated for any "touching" to have an effect. My palms are perfectly hair-free by the way!
Carl (the Aiki-monk)
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09-28-2007, 03:10 PM
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Dojo: Shobu Aikido of Boston
Location: Lecce, Italy
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
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Anthony Dunn wrote:
I've noticed it. My first sensei said that when he started aikido his wrists had very little hair, and now his wrists are very hairy. I've noticed it on myself too, a darker band of hair right in the "grab zone" after 2 1/2 years of practicing.
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me too. darker in the grab zone
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09-29-2007, 02:55 AM
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Dojo: Karcag Aikido Club
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
All of us dudes who are loosing hair (I can tell that I am, which means the world can to)...lets have a project...lets massage our scalp at least once a day. - see what happens.
Peace
dAlen
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09-29-2007, 07:37 AM
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Dojo: Triangle Aikido Club
Location: Bentonville, AR
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Time doing Aikido = more likely to be older = people get more hairy as they get older?
Caveat - more hairy everywhere, like ears and back, but not head!
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09-29-2007, 11:05 PM
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Dojo: Aikido Fellowship of VA / Chesapeake Va
Location: Virginia
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
Now THERE's a funny though - instead of wrist grabs, imagine walking into a dojo and hearing people say "Grab my head".
Shannon
Quote:
Eliot Gross wrote:
Well I am bald. So if that is true, in theory could that grow hair on my head?
LOL
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09-30-2007, 05:49 AM
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Location: Orlando, FL
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Re: Hairy Wrists!
I tried vigorous scalp massages to regrow bald spots. No help there, but now both my hands look like Willie Nelson...
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