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07-22-2009, 02:58 AM
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Dojo: Stockholms Aikidoklubb
Location: Stockholm
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Re: Breakfalls and location of dojos
Why not? If really thrown (koshinage comes to mind), breakfalls are easier than rolling ukemi. Itīs standard aikido way of uke jumping into breakfalls in waza that does not require them that are a bit tricky.
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Mary Malmros wrote:
That sounds a bit like the biker's claim that "I had to lay it down." Are you really telling me that your seniors are forcing you, someone new to aikido, to take breakfalls?
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07-22-2009, 08:06 AM
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Dojo: Does it matter?
Location: Jacksonville, FL
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Re: Breakfalls and location of dojos
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David Skaggs wrote:
I don't understand this statement.
The only control uke has is the level of commitment, speed, power and type of attack. Once uke attacks nage takes control by breaking uke's balance. There is no keeping up with nage. Nage takes the attack uke provides and returns it back to uke. Whatever happens to uke happens and uke needs to be prepared ( by lots of practice) to take whatever fall is available.
David
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I suppose the thing I am suggesting is level of commitment, then. Uke must never stop attacking the nage's center, this gives one more options for falls. Uke also has to keep connection, keep attacking the center, and take advatage of any chances to become Nage (not when the instructor specifically tells you not to, of course, or else the highly experianced members of the dojo would never get thrown). For instance, in an iremange from a shoman strike, the innital blend with the strike should take uke's balance, but uke should react by driving into nage's center so that they can become the nage. If they don't continue to take the other person's center, there is no point in doing an iremange because the uke would just want to back off and try another strike after the first has failed. My sensei has said that all aikido is a battle for the other person's center, and every movement of an uke's is to attack the nage's center. In this manner, uke and nage can very easily switch roles.
In refrance to our original point, choosing soft breakfalls over hard ones, if a uke keeps connection while trying to regain their balance, one can keep a lot of options open as far as falls. For instance, if you are thrown from shihonage and you let your arm get away from your head, you have to take a harder breakfall in order to catch your arm back up to your head so that you don't hurt yourself. If, in the same situation as before, you are able to keep your arm next you your head, you can take a soft breakfall (or maybe even a back roll) because your arm is not in danger and your ballance is closer to being under you.
Did that make sense or am a babbling?
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07-22-2009, 08:41 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
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Re: Breakfalls and location of dojos
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Ryan Szesny wrote:
I suppose the thing I am suggesting is level of commitment, then. Uke must never stop attacking the nage's center, this gives one more options for falls. Uke also has to keep connection, keep attacking the center, and take advatage of any chances to become Nage (not when the instructor specifically tells you not to, of course, or else the highly experianced members of the dojo would never get thrown). For instance, in an iremange from a shoman strike, the innital blend with the strike should take uke's balance, but uke should react by driving into nage's center so that they can become the nage. If they don't continue to take the other person's center, there is no point in doing an iremange because the uke would just want to back off and try another strike after the first has failed. My sensei has said that all aikido is a battle for the other person's center, and every movement of an uke's is to attack the nage's center. In this manner, uke and nage can very easily switch roles.
In refrance to our original point, choosing soft breakfalls over hard ones, if a uke keeps connection while trying to regain their balance, one can keep a lot of options open as far as falls. For instance, if you are thrown from shihonage and you let your arm get away from your head, you have to take a harder breakfall in order to catch your arm back up to your head so that you don't hurt yourself. If, in the same situation as before, you are able to keep your arm next you your head, you can take a soft breakfall (or maybe even a back roll) because your arm is not in danger and your ballance is closer to being under you.
Did that make sense or am a babbling?
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Okay I understand what you meant and agree 100%. I am sorry I misunderstood you. I thought you meant that uke was chasing nage so that nage could do the technique.
Thank You
David
Last edited by dps : 07-22-2009 at 08:47 AM.
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Go ahead, tread on me.
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07-22-2009, 11:12 AM
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Dojo: Shin Budo Kai
Location: Manhattan
Join Date: Feb 2002
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Re: Breakfalls and location of dojos
I'm from NYC and we don't do a lot of breakfalls. Mostly I do them to impress children.
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