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Old October 16, 2012, 05:05 PM   #34
MLeake
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BlackFeather, there is a time to pivot away, and a time to pivot toward.

Away enables hip throws and some other techniques, but IMO toward puts a lot more stress on fingers and wrists - which are the weak points and easier to disrupt.

It's good to have more than one way to skin a cat, though. (Which is why, in aikido, we practice techniques alternating right and left hand, and entering or crossing, etc. Nothing is practiced in only one way.)

Edit: This, of course, is yet another reason why people who are seriously interested should find an actual instructor and take a class (or, better yet, classes). Things get oversimplified online, out of necessity, and training has to be sufficient that conscious mental processes don't get in the way.

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