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Don’t expect to get everything right straight away, and don’t feel you must get one thing perfect before you move on to the next. People will tell you that if you are ‘practising it wrong’ you can’t improve. They imply that if you make mistakes at the beginning you will get worse and worse. Well, think of beginners learning to ride a bicycle. They keep falling off, but no one would accuse them of ‘practising it wrong’. They are feeling for a particular thing, the sense of balance, and they can’t expect to get it at once. In the same way in Judo you are feeling for the balance and rhythm of the throw, and you won’t get it for a good time. The instructions and analysis are to get your movement somewhat along the right lines; when you are doing something like it, one day you will find the opponent suddenly seems light and goes over with unexpected ease. Now that’s the first flash – and you should note very carefully how you ‘felt’ when it happened. All the descriptions and suggestions are only to get you to this point, and to bring you back to it when you lose it, as will happen again and again.