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Old 04-09-2009, 05:25 PM   #6 (permalink)
kuri
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I think the instructors feel that they have to do the "old" kihon" stretching routines...
Probably it. Try to fake the apple bobbing if you can.

I wish more would recognize that the "traditional" arts are never static but have evolved alot even over just the past 50 years. I know that founders of Okinawan Karate modified the teachings as they were in China, as have practices changed since then.
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