UKE with mind of a TORY
In recent times, I have been finding it more and more difficult to get a young person to bend, to cower. They are proud, healthy, straight, tangled with EGO to the bum. Of course they train for technique. And while they are on the side of Tory there is no problem - the fight is male, there is a stand, a center, an attack, everything. But when they go to the Uke position all of this disappears - there is, of course, a solid attack and so much. They lose all desire and interest to attack again and again. They forget their center somewhere, stability and dynamics are somehow alien to them. Why is this happening? It is very important to have equal enthusiasm and energy for both roles. You have to be adaptable. They push you - you sink, but it's rather a slight retreat and dropping as cats do before they're thrown on sparrows. In this position, it may be that your center is lower than that of Tory, that you are more stable and, therefore, in a better position, incl...