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Published: 2015-09-02 10:24:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1863; Favourites: 13; Downloads: 19
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Break falls in Aikido is VERY important, otherwise you get hurt.Unfortunately they are not my strong suit. I can do backwards, but forward is a struggle, to the point of embarrasment when you are 3rd kyu and still can't do them properly. At least not on command. And especially not without hands.
That said, I think everyone has tried to do a faceplant while learning ukemis.
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I understand. I'm a 4th kyu and I am not authorized to do my exam until I can get the tobukemi right! I just panic when I see the floor becoming closer and closer...
The same happened when I was learning mae ukemi! It took me a while, I did it right after 2 years! Ushiro ukemi... I did it from teh very first class! >__<
But we can do it! DO IT FOR YOUR HAKAMA!
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I BELIEVE IN YOU!!! YOU CAN DO IT!!! GANBATTE!!!! FOR GLORY AND THE HAKAMA!!!
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FOR THE GLORY AND THE HAKAMA!!
*Now playing: Mi nombre será leyenda (My name will be legend) *
(Wait a minute, I just noticed something... you're a 3rd kyu? OE!! Then I'll call you SENPAI! XD)
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Wohoo!! Another mindless minonERRR Loving koukai!! 
Thanks a ton for all the faves!!
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I'm practising judo (since september), and when I do break falls I always hit my shoulder. I envy my sempais that do it so smoothly without even hitting the ground!
Btw, I'm enjoying a lot your aikido comics!
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Thanks a ton!
Two things have helped me greatly lately with break falls: Have you tried focusing a lot on looking at your navel? Keeps you rounded. I also discovered, that making a small jump on the leg you still have on the ground helps you get more spin, and landing on the back instead of shoulders? It's really difficult, I think, but makes break falls much better.
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I've tried to focus even more on looking at my navel and that help me a lot! I was able to do a perfect break fall, at least on my right shoulder. I hit a little my left shoulder but it was better than last time.
I'll keep pratising!
Thank you!
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Wow, nicely done!!! Pleasedto have helped you
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agreed!... accept I don't do the face planting part....
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If you are lower graduated: It will come! Just you wait!!
If you are higher: Damn, lucky you ^^
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Been doing MA since I was young... usually I would wind up flat on my back
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I can do forward much better than backwards :-D
It also feels more natural to me
It's different for everyone
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I can do it nice! ^^
Im the last uke (long hair)...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsfvYN…
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Yea!! Really cool, totally soundless!! Reminds me of my sensei (first person in the comic btw). He also practiced in Brazil for a long time. Might be a long shot, but did you ever practice with a guy called Victor Merea?
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No unfort... my sensei does it very well too... He is Brazilian-Japanese (the nage in the video)...
I also could get some priceless tips with Kashiwaya Sensei (8 dan, Ki Aikido) during a seminar here in Brazil... He is trully amazing!
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Dang it... Would have been cool if you knew him 
I don't know so many people in aikido, the only two I know from Brazil is my sensei (who is actually Peruvian, but lived in Brazil som years), and the person he was uchideshi for, Reishin Kawai.
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Reishin Kawai was our shihan years ago... (from our group)
He passed many years ago but his organization is still up. Im part of it! ^^
Thats really cool!
The sensei I said, Kashiwaya, is from japan and lives in the united states anyway
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that like me too. I got a bleeding nose when i first did it.
Backwards is a pain for me. lol
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I think I have two-three minor concussions under my belt, from slamming my head into the mat... Not as dramatic as in the drawings, but still
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How many concussions one person can get untell you damage in the brain spot?
Like i was told it was 3, or it like a sale to want you get.
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Minor concussions, not fullblown xD More like being dizzy and nauseaus the rest of the evening, and then all good next morning 
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