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Uke · 04-30-2007, 01:35 PM

I have trained with men who are doing ukemi well into their 80's, and they will tell you the same thing I did above.

How hard you slam is based upon how good your ukemi is. When I came up, you couldn't say that you had your ukemi down until you could do every single fall and roll in the street, and that makes sense because after all you're training to fall in the street, not the dojo. Breakfalls are beginner's stuff in the systems I came up in. So is pain tolerance.

A friend of mine didn't get active in ukemi until he was 47. It was rough on him because he still had the fear of falling and he was a big guy, but he ate it and stuck with it. He can do flying(tobu) ukemi now.

04-30-2007, 01:35 PM	#7 (permalink)
Uke Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: NY Posts: 1,249	I have trained with men who are doing ukemi well into their 80's, and they will tell you the same thing I did above. How hard you slam is based upon how good your ukemi is. When I came up, you couldn't say that you had your ukemi down until you could do every single fall and roll in the street, and that makes sense because after all you're training to fall in the street, not the dojo. Breakfalls are beginner's stuff in the systems I came up in. So is pain tolerance. A friend of mine didn't get active in ukemi until he was 47. It was rough on him because he still had the fear of falling and he was a big guy, but he ate it and stuck with it. He can do flying(tobu) ukemi now. __________________ A solar panel 100 miles by 100 miles (161x161km) in the Mojave Desert (USA) could replace all the coal now burned to generate electricity in the entire U.S.