I've been holding back on you guys. I needed to formulate some things before I was ready to restart this blog... little circle drives big circle ukimi=little circle: http://youtu.be/JwHX6kR_Se0 ukemi=big circle: http://youtu.be/iKE7WS8N3Kw Inoue puts it all together: http://youtu.be/JXFUrzBtsrY Think of it as tori is the little circle and uke is the big circle. Super-geek-time. Timmy goes thru his mechanics and note that his first movement is basically backward, though he's falling forward. That is the contradictory power we touch on. He falls into the direction opposite to his loading, in particular re: his hips. From there its a matter of the small circle@center (hips) projecting out to the big circle (hands) to generate the power. http://youtu.be/wnPFSDTU_ng A pitcher in MLB has an advantage in stepping off his mound. You can't really increase power as you're only "so strong" and you can't increase speed as your limbs+body will only go so fast but what you really can change is the mass which stepping down off the mound changes dramatically. The relationship between height of drop and mass is something like 2-3 times greater. What is the point?!? It's all down power! Look again at Inoue, what he does is go from a position of stability and drops ~in a relaxed transition~ into another position of stability. Those of you who were at the last class saw how I launched Judd with this tight circle, tightly crouched squat. It had very little strength involved in the release and in the third try where I could barely control my own over-rotation I was completely committed to the mechanics. Notice I said "mechanics" not "throw" that is where we need to work from. The throw is a causal relationship. The mechanics are deterministic, how you move is everything. It's the only thing. So, therefore, back to breakfalls! Ukemi! Ukikmi!