Re: Ukemi training for the elderly?
Very interesting that you teach a 'no fall' class, Aviv, and I am not opposing it, but-- suppose there is a fall? It happens to all of us, and if we do not train to fall, we won't have the 'built -in' reflex from training to help us. I am always surprised when I am given a sudden ukemi lesson from a slip on ice that I did not know was there. That surprise lesson is the very thing that shows me where the reliability of my practice is at.
In gassho,
Mark
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