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Now that you have had a look at the pictures and been told the main points, try it out roughly with an opponent. Don’t bother too much about getting all the points right; get the general movement first, say about twenty times. Then let your opponent try twenty times, and have a good look at what he is doing. It will help you to see what is wrong with your own attempts.

Don’t try to go too fast for your balance. On the other hand, don’t go so slowly that you stagger while transferring your weight. You can walk fast and you can walk slowly, but there comes a point when to go any slower means that you are no longer doing the same thing at all; the pace is no longer even and the movements have to be completely artificial.

It’s the same in Judo movement; you should at the beginning take it very comfortably, but if you go too slow you find you are not comfortable.

When you have done the first round of twenty, do another round but taking up one of the points, such as the left arm pull. Never mind about the rest of the movement, whether it’s right or wrong, but get your left arm and shoulder working loose, moving more and more freely and going higher and more out. You will begin to get the feel of what it is like to make a very full wide pull. When you begin to get that feel, you can allow yourself to speed up naturally, bit by bit. But once you find that you’ve begun to skimp your pull, that you are just jerking briefly because you can’t find time to fit in the long pull, then reduce the speed until you can get it in.