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Hello everyone,
does anyone here practice a martial art like aikido, where projections and falls (ukemis) are frequent ?
Ponytailing my hair never lasts more than 5 minutes and I'm loosing a lot of time to let the hair look less messy.
I have tried a head band but it slides too.
Maybe I need simply more length ?
Garath
I take bjj, Brazilian jui jitsu, i just put it in a pony tail, It may get pulled a little bit, but if it will get in the way or not depends on what kind of art it is, it just depends, is it a striking art( karate, kung fu ect. stuff like bruce lee) or a grappling art (Bjj, JJ, judo, sambo ect... stuff like royce gracie in the early ufc (bjj))Strikeing I don't see too much trouble, but grappling arts you can get your hair pulled alot for being on the ground ( I just deal with it). If you don't know the difference, this is grappling
Thanks Dave M. for the video.
Aikido is a more defensive art and not a striking art. However, the re is not as much contact as in bjj, from what I see. I can imagine that your hair must be more pulled than mine.
Thanks
Garath
Yeah it gets pretty bad, but i must deal with it as much as i love long hair,yours should be fine, just ponytail it, you have such great hair it would be a shame to cut it.
I practice Aikido and Goju-Ryu, and yeah my hair does bother me some, but its not as long as yours.
Hi Oleg,
good to know I'm not alone. Seems to be more disturbing in projections like irimi or kaiten
irimi : http://www.chez.com/aikidossiers/francais/techniques.htm
kaiten : http://www.fotocommunity.de/pc/pc/cat/1384/display/3639121
than kotegaeshi !
Once when I had shorter hair, during a course given by a japanese 6th dan, I've seen a longhair who never needed to do anything to his hair ... Now I'll know what to ask him if I meet him again.
Garath
I used to do jiu-jitsu. There was a bald guy in the class who used to wear a rugby head-protector like this:
Also, a bandanna headband is more effective than one of those elasticated ones.
Hi CTB,
do you mean hair could be also used as a head protection ? (-:
I will try the bandana hairband.
Garath
I've been doing Tai Chi for alot of years, I just either
put it in a pony tail or my wife puts it in a braid.
With it being waist length it stays in either way.