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After that last pathetic entry I will attempt to redeem myself with this one. Last night was one of the oddest classes in quite a while. Not in what we did but in the make up of the class. It was a rather good sized kids class. Non black belts included me and Ken. Black belts included Neil, Ben and Mark. That alone long ago or at times would have been a decent class. Nowadays we typically have quite a few adults and kids. So we ended up having about 8 kids and 2 new people. That really doesn't sound odd when I write it out, but you will just have to trust me, it was.
I started the night working with Mark doing ippon seionage. Here is the basis of my struggle. I can't capture the arm and at the same time get low. I see others doing it, I have felt people perform it correctly on me. I don't understand mentally nor can I perform it correctly. It seems that I can only capture the arm correctly or get low enough. If I capture the right then I am not low enough and if I get low enough I don't capture the arm right or lose the capture. Another part that came to light last night at the end of this segment of the practice was that I may need to get my hip through a bit more. One thought I just had was that I may be working against myself by lifting the captured arm up at the same time as I am pulling it down. Perhaps I need to concentrate on pulling the arm out, to open them up, then pull it down and across as it is being captured, as I then lower my center. So, since my brain works with small thoughts, I'm going to try it with think of pulling the arm out then down.
We worked on some chokes last night, nami juji jime and gyaku juji jime. Neil had mentioned last week to me, or I should say re-mentioned, that the power of the choke occurs when you have uke close to your body. I could feel this very clearly by pulling them to me, before engaging so much of the arm. He then showed us two simple counters to these chokes and I am kata juji jime. The first was simply putting one hand to one side of your face. I think it needs to be basically protecting the carotid artery, thereby spreading the pinch point across a greater area. James works this counter on me quite well. The other is one pushing up on the top arm while pulling down on the lower arm. I have done this before in randori as it makes sense.
Last we did some newaza randori where Mark and I worked some great transitions and subs on each other. Thanks Mark.
I started the night working with Mark doing ippon seionage. Here is the basis of my struggle. I can't capture the arm and at the same time get low. I see others doing it, I have felt people perform it correctly on me. I don't understand mentally nor can I perform it correctly. It seems that I can only capture the arm correctly or get low enough. If I capture the right then I am not low enough and if I get low enough I don't capture the arm right or lose the capture. Another part that came to light last night at the end of this segment of the practice was that I may need to get my hip through a bit more. One thought I just had was that I may be working against myself by lifting the captured arm up at the same time as I am pulling it down. Perhaps I need to concentrate on pulling the arm out, to open them up, then pull it down and across as it is being captured, as I then lower my center. So, since my brain works with small thoughts, I'm going to try it with think of pulling the arm out then down.
We worked on some chokes last night, nami juji jime and gyaku juji jime. Neil had mentioned last week to me, or I should say re-mentioned, that the power of the choke occurs when you have uke close to your body. I could feel this very clearly by pulling them to me, before engaging so much of the arm. He then showed us two simple counters to these chokes and I am kata juji jime. The first was simply putting one hand to one side of your face. I think it needs to be basically protecting the carotid artery, thereby spreading the pinch point across a greater area. James works this counter on me quite well. The other is one pushing up on the top arm while pulling down on the lower arm. I have done this before in randori as it makes sense.
Last we did some newaza randori where Mark and I worked some great transitions and subs on each other. Thanks Mark.
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circlepi
05 February 2009 - 05:00 AM
That was a great night and I had a great work out with you. It took nearly a week for the knees to come back. The newaza are great. I had a lot of fun rolling around. I still need a lot of work, but I have fun rolling with everyone.
BTW - you look good for your demo for Neil. We all know how it feels to up in front of the class. The hardest thing for me was trying to be relax. At times I felt my heart would jump out of my chest. I found controlling the breathing controls the body.
BTW - you look good for your demo for Neil. We all know how it feels to up in front of the class. The hardest thing for me was trying to be relax. At times I felt my heart would jump out of my chest. I found controlling the breathing controls the body.
EJC Judoka
05 February 2009 - 05:55 PM
Thanks Mark. When I first finished I felt pretty good about my throws. I then asked Jerrod how the falls were because I overheard him say to Neil before hand that he wasn't warmed up. He told me that he'd let Neil go over his review. So then I started thinking more about the throws and was not feeling as confident about the quality of my demonstration. So then I finally got a chance to chat with Neil and he mentioned two major mistakes (or at least I would label them that way), one I was no where near low enough for my tai otoshi, two my morote gari pulled Jerrod's legs between mine versus outside mine. I struggle with going to fast, as you said you could see. I will give the breathing trick a try.
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