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- From: jfrost@crash.cts.com (Julian Frost)
- Subject: Re: Kotegaeshi (wrist/forearm technique)
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 30 Dec 92 10:24:36 PST
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.102436.1629@crash>
- References: <1hpqd6INNon2@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1992Dec29.152254.3652@crash> <1992Dec30.144332.4766@srg.srg.af.mil>
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- In article <1992Dec30.144332.4766@srg.srg.af.mil> schan@birch.srg.af.mil (Stephen Chan x4485) writes:
- > I've had a nasty kote-gaeshi variant practiced on me by seniors which
- >involved bending the wrist enough for leverage, and then rotating it along the
- >axis of the forearm (as well as some wrist bending). It was significantly more
- >persuasive.
- Moving out of the line of attack and turning one's own *center* has
- this effect... it's called "doing it correctly"!! But I wouldn't call
- it a variant!
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- > It was considered a kote-gaeshi. It seems to me that the seniors, after
- >years of practice, had an intuitive feel for how to convert the nice, canonical
- >Aikido technique into a a more vicious variant.
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- / | \
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- \ Variant??
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- Yep, I guess so! Practise, Practise, Practise!
- Julian
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