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Ukemi (“receiving body”) is a set of skills critical to safe and effective training, as well as actual self-defense. In the dōjō, ukemi allows the realistic execution of techniques while insuring one’s practice partner can get up and do it again. Outside the dōjō, ukemi provides quite possibly the most universally useful self-defense: While most people will never experience a physical attack, everyone at some point suffers a fall. The Yamate-ryū boasts a sophisticated and exceptionally effective method of
