
The very first thing you are taught when you start practicing judo is how to fall. A breakfall – or ukemi – is a technique used to fall safely, without injuring yourself.
The very first thing you are taught when you start practicing judo is how to fall. A breakfall – or ukemi – is a technique used to fall safely, without injuring yourself.
We spend our days toiling at this or that, sometimes alone, sometimes with others. We know the proximate reasons for those everyday actions: we go to work because, well, we have to pay the bills; we interact with our colleagues because we have a job to do and that’s how you get things done.