nonamez23's Blog

hip wheel, hip back

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:04:01 +0000

Tuesday's class started with a good warm up. We worked our 3-2-1 okuri ashi harai drills side to side and backwards and forwards at an angle. Then we added a new drill where we rotate the uke in a circle and sweep. The uke is pulled to the lapel side in a circle while keeping the sweeping footin place. When the uke ets to the opposite side the...

The day came

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 04:54:23 +0000

Saturday was finally competition day. I tried my best, and I did well. I didnt get a chance to warm up though. I definitley need to get the blood pumping. I missed judged how to fight my first opponent and got tossed. After that I was pumped and ready to go because I was not letting that happen again. I won the next by pin, then by tani otoshi,...

Like mowing the lawn

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:24:27 +0000

Last Thursday night was an intense warm up. Our club was getting ready for competition on Saturday. We started off with running and push ups. We went into ukemi because it is very important. From there we did our usual mat drills. We worked our shrimping, our knee to elbow, and reverse shrimp. To keep the intensity we did moving uchi komi. I...

Wheel to wheel

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 05:00:48 +0000

Tuesday night's judo class started off with some stretching, sit-ups, running, push-ups, and ukemi. Since that was a little too light for a warm up , we did some grip fighting too. Our goal was to get our grips, and try to maintain our dominant grip. After a couple of rounds we went straight...

Special guest

Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:56:51 +0000

Saturday's Judo class was awesome. We had a guest instructor who was incredible, Matsumura sensei, 8th dan. Matsumura sensei taught his tokui waza, tai otoshi.

At first we learned th proper stance for tai otoshi. He had us go into a squat and pop up into a tai otoshi stance. It was a fun drill. Then we worke on the movement going to the side...

Lift with a twist

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 01:49:04 +0000

Last night's practice started off with some ukemi. My sensei is working on his new tokui waza, hane goshi, and combinations for it. I was his uke. He also worked on yoko wakare, the technique scheduled for the night, and sukui nage as a counter to koshi guruma, which he had me enter for.

Once class started we jogged around after stretching...

Power of the Ki, NOT

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:15:42 +0000

Last night's class started off with some tretching and then the 3-2-1 okuri ashi harai drill side to side, forwards and backwards at an angle, and then we added 3-2-circle opponent around and -1 drill moving at an angle going forwards. Then we went right into technique.

Technique number one was a kata technique from the nage no kata; uki...

Down goes the turtle

Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:43:11 +0000

Saturday was a good class. We started off with some laps, jumping jacks, laps, pushups, laps, sit ups, and more laps. Light warm up ...

inside-out

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:12:50 +0000

Thursday night I started off as my sensei's uke. He was working on a knew tokui waza. He likes to switch it up from time to time. Good ukemi practice and it's actually fun to get thrown by him ...

To sweep or to wizzer?

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:34:52 +0000

Wednesday night's Bjj started off with a little standup. We worked some striking to get the blood flowing. I enjoyed it considering I have been MIA in karate class . I'll go back eventually. Any ways, we worked some roundhouse kicks, knees, elbows, and some punch combinations. Then we...