Essay on randori

I’ve never heard of this art called jukido, but this essay provides some good criticism and advice on how one should approach randori - probably the way Kano intended - for “research and development” of throws with the right open attitude and not attempting to not get thrown, thereby imposing too many limits on learning [...]

Human weapon videos

Breakdown of throws from Human Weapon. This site, “The person who is throwing you on the mat … is a girl” is quite a nice blog site to go back and read.

Explosiveness

One main lesson I’ve had from judo lately has been the need for sudden explosiveness, even in a feint. Well, that makes me think I need to work plyometrics and darn it I’m a bit lazy to do it. Zhan zhuang does seem to help in the sense of relaxing and getting every part of [...]

tip from my dad worked

I had put a gi on my dad whose focus has been mainly taijiquan with some early study of Shaolin “hard” style a while ago and he used my lapel grip as a trapped hand for a common fixed step push hands uproot. I managed to use that in judo as kuzushi leading right back [...]

more entries to diagonal or tani or similar

More ideas from talking with my friend who trains a different internal/external mix.
1. if they are too tentative to reach, enter and press their arm on their body fast.
2. if they grip one arm or sleeve, roll back with their lapel grip attempt - must be just out of reach to “entice into emptiness”, bring [...]

Taking accidental combo to deliberate combo

This article has a huge amount of information on fitting coaching styles to individual styles and more. The most interesting part for me at the moment is 4.2.1, which talks about taking an accidental combo and making it a deliberate behavior, sort of like “animal training” according to the author.

diagonal flying 3

Finally pulled off a good entry for it during judo randori and started an obi otoshi which is just a slight variation - pulling on the obi instead of an arm. Good. It’s nice to see that I could envision the technique I wanted to learn and make some progress. I plan to focus on [...]

Basic sweep

This sweep from a baguazhang video of Mike Patterson (the title here seems to be incorrect in labeling it tai chi) is pretty much the same sweep shown in the Human Weapon: Sambo episode except the Sambo demo caught the arm from the outside in a rollback and pull down motion then pulled on the [...]

Accidental combo generates some ideas

I had an accidental combo in judo that was basically single leg to the footwork for kouchi gari, but I was too far away to do that and my partner was pulling me down so I was a little off balance too. I somehow spun around to a sort of diagonal flying “peng” with my [...]

Human weapon: Sambo

Sambo episode is coming on. It will have a fighter picked by Fedor to fight one of the guys. Cool… spoiler warning… don’t read further if you haven’t seen it…
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First move they show, sort of roll-back to a sweep, aided by pulling on the collarbone. Nice. A self defense move.
Warm-ups: lots of rolls, “hindu pushups” [...]