What's the move?
I don't know the name of it, but it's from same hand cuff grab. You envelop their hand with your opposite hand, and with the hand that they grabbed you with you position your hand onto their wrist via a circular motion and then press down. I've got it to work a couple times before but it's the one move that's going to drag me down.
If you've got a grading coming up you should probably learn the name
The solo training (shadow technique) is partner training without partner. You can use solo training to "polish" your technique.
There's nothing bad about that name...yes, in this case, that's the name you guys are using. A name is just a way to identify the technique, and in some systems the techniques are actually numbered (ikkyo, nikkyo, sankyo). So the name may not be what others use, but that has no impact on your training (except that it's hard to ask for help on a forum).
The reason that the term "polish" is used because it's just like a rock that when it rolls down from the mountain top, that rock may have a lot of sharp edges. When it reaches to the bottom of the mountain, all those sharp edges will be gone and the rock is smooth.
Agree with you 100% there. If you have not "developed" any techniques yet, you will have nothing to "polish". Sometime, people go the other way around as solo form first and application later. I don't like that approach.
Agreed. I've said before that I don't understand the approach of teaching a solo form, then the application from it, if the form is supposed to be used to learn specific techniques. Without knowing the techniques, you're learning a reasonably vague facsimile of the movement, and will likely take longer. The form is more useful, IMO, for practicing techniques that are already learned. The techniques need not be mastered, but the form is most effective if the technique comes first.
I think the quote system got messed up, i wasnt the one that said the line you quoted.
Sorry, that was an error.
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There are actually swim coaches that teach how to swim on dry land first. Or teach you how to swim while holding the wall, or on a boogie board.
I agree. The single-technique forms (what I call “classical forms”) are a different thing, and I wonder if this is the Japanese approach, and was applied to Okinawan forms. In Daito-Ryu (and NGA), there are single-technique forms used to introduce a technique. They are two-man forms, and are essentially the same as any beginning version used to teach a grappling technique (no resistance, easy access to the technique). So they are used as the starting point for a technique. If you use that same approach with the Okinawan forms, it reverses what I see as the appropriate pedagogical approach.
