Taigi -- was: Grab my Wrist
(Extracted from Aikido-L)

Date:    Mon, 25 Mar 2002 10:29:12 +0000
From:    Mike ?
Subject: Taigi, was:Re: Grab my wrist

>From: "James R. Acker"
>And that is a great example. A few years back I saw the Eurosport, Tissier
>demo for aikido. Among the things I was incredibly impressed with, was that
>Tissiers' uke did this. Came up out of the roll almost before going into
>the roll :-) and I decided right then and there that "this is the way it
>should be" and I had no doubts.

You should try doing a taigi, there are many lttle methods like these which you tend to use if you've lost time for some reason and need to make it up. This sometimes happens in our lower level gradings where the testee doesn't know the taigi as well as they should and uke does. If uke doesn't want to do the whole thing all over again because the time was wrong then they tend to try and shorten a few things and shave some seconds off here and there ;o)

Mike Haft

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Date:    Mon, 25 Mar 2002 11:11:17 -0500
From:    Jake Jacobe
Subject: Re: Taigi, was:Re: Grab my wrist

Of course, this sometimes works against you.  I was once trying to speed a taigi up with a less experienced nage.  I held onto his wrist as he threw me.  I rolled small, turned and used his arm to pull myself up so that I could immediately be standing ready for the next throw.  Unfortunately, he not only wasn't expecting this, but he was also not standing in a balanced/centered manner. As a result, my "time-saving shortcut" ended up throwing him onto the mat.

While all of the onlookers were entertained by this, Sensei still made us start over from the beginning.

Jake

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