Judo adventures - class 12

Throwing class was me, K, S, and J.

We learned counters to the basic throws. Very straightforward, but tricky to get it right. Then we did a more advanced counter, which involved lifting your opponent up, and... uh. That was hard. xD Going to need more practice with that. It's a really nasty throw, and it's hard to do.

Took some hard falls on the crash mat when we were doing the lifting throw, bleh. It was fine, because there's lots of cushion, but I'm definitely going to need to learn how to fall better with that one. It's almost like, the person throwing does a rotation as they do it, and then the person being thrown needs to rotate as well in order to land properly? I think.

Then randori. Not bad, but tricky. I kept running into trouble where like - I would go in for the throw, and hesitate because I couldn't get the form quite correct, and that made it impossible to commit. Better to just go for it and not overthink things, I guess. :V And I kept trying to use force in order to make up for mediocre technique, which isn't great. Apparently some of my counters were good, though.

We might have someone new next week. That should be interesting.