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- From: hines@left.fishkill.ibm.com (Charles K. Hines)
- Subject: Re: Newbies Question: Joint Locking
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- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.141137.49548@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 14:11:37 GMT
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- >Yes. Please describe a few basic warmup exercises.
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- Ok, I'll give it a shot...
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- For the wrists:
- 1) "Kotegaeshi" (since some people were 'discussing' this earlier)
- hold up left hand, palm to your body at about shoulder level.
- place thumb of right hand beneath knuckle of left hand ring finger.
- wrap fingers around, grabbing base of left hand thumb.
- now twist left hand by pushing w/ right thumb & pulling w/ fingers while
- lowering both hands towards your center (solar plexus).
- repeat 10 times, then mirror image for right hand.
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- 2) "Nikkyo"
- hold left hand in front of your center, palm to floor.
- place palm of right hand over back of left, grasping it.
- (make sure that your not grabbing above the base of the fingers)
- raise both hands to chest, bending left wrist by pushing it towards
- left forearm, then lower & straighten it again.
- repeat 10 times, then mirror for right.
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- 3) "Sankyo" (this one is a little harder to describe)
- hold left in front of you, chest height, thumb down, palm facing left.
- grasp back of hand w/ right hand, thumb over top, fingers wrapped
- around left thumb.
- bring left hand toward you (in upward circular motion) while using
- right hand to point left hand fingers towards ceiling.
- return to starting position & repeat 10 times, mirrored for right.
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- 4) after doing these, let hands hang limp & shake them around to loosen them
- up and get the blood flowing again.
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- As a side note, these warmups are named for the by each of the aikido
- arm/wrist techniques that works the same muscles/tendons that are being
- stretched.
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- For the shoulders:
- 5) let arms hang down by your sides, and swing them up in big circles
- over your head, then back down, first forwards, then backwards.
- (this loosens the shoulders)
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- For the wrist and elbow (a little):
- 6) hold left hand palm up in front of you.
- grasp fingers of left hand w/ right hand, right thumb under left knuckles.
- bend fingers back (down) while lifting hand up, out, then down, ending
- with arm fully extended (careful _not_ to hyper-extend the elbow) and
- hold it there.
- repeat & mirror for right.
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- Note, anywhere I mention "knuckles" I'm refering to the ones where the fingers
- meet the rest of the hands.
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- Hope this helps, as these aren't the easiest to describe in words!
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- Chuck Hines
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