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I thought I embed here an old video study of mine where I compare mae ukemi with ushiro ukemi.

I took a mae ukemi recording and reversed it so it became ushiro ukemi (with one slight difference, I wonder if anyone finds it ;) ). Then I took the ushiro ukemi recording and made mae ukemi out of it.

As Fujita Masatake shihan is the international technical leader of our organisation I naturally started looking for his videos on the Web a couple of years ago, when I was new to aikido and when I'd just attended his seminar in Budapest. By now there have been several Fujita sensei videos on Youtube but there were only a couple of very short ones when I started looking for his recorded moves.

I know that how to put on the hakama is usually not the concern of beginners. However, there are aikido organisations where all the beginners, or beginner women only, can wear hakama so the following video might be of interest to them.

In the following video I show the way I put on my hakama. The video demonstrates one possible way to put on your hakama. There exist several other methods as well. The following is a way that works for me and that I've been using since I can wear hakama. It has never fallen off me with tying it up like this.

I included several pictures in my post about our grading so I think it's a bit more neat if I have a separate post for the grading video clip. Please find the clip below or on YouTube.