When my back went out in Japan, my sempai told me they'd seen it coming from the way I took ukemi. When I asked why nobody warned me, one of them said something I've never forgotten. This week's video is about how much your ukemi tells your partner about you.
I get into why falling early takes the last 10% of the technique away from tori, why you have to chase down the sempai (and the one way not to), and why you can't answer a question that hasn't been asked yet.
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