In training I have a tendency to think that when I can't do a technique on a paticular partner, my aikido is rubbish. It must be, I can't perform the wrist lock! What gives?
Yet when I step back away from my own frustration I realize that I am standing behind my partner, having entered as they attack, focusing on trying to put a pin on his arm when he's stood there facing away from me.
Now from a martial perspective this is called rubbish ukemi. One should never, ever take ones eyes off one's partner for you never know what they will do. The moment you disconnect is the moment you have given up.
Standing behind someone who is not trying to turn and face you or hit you there is no need to do a technique, you walk away. Standing behind someone who knows better, they will come around as fast as they can to face you, you then take their body movement and go with it and a technique happens naturally.
Performing rubbish ukemi means you don't get stretched and worked out and you frustrate you partner if they don't know any better. Performing rubbish ukemi on the wrong person or worse still, out of habit in a proper fight, get's painful and dangerous. Someday you will meet a real dragon, and what then?
Always look at your partner.
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