Judo adventures 3.13

[yuuago]

Attending: Me, Ma, C, H, M1, and miscellaneous colourbelt kids. Sensei and R-sensei instructing.

We also had a new person, R-sensei's kid. She's around 19 or so. Did some judo when she was much younger, but it's been a while. I partnered with her for this class.

Did some groundwork. We focused on getting past guard. The procedure he had us work on was: When you're in someone's guard, grab the pants (your left/their right) and bring the knee down to the ground. Then scoop the leg with your right shoulder and use that hand to grab their lapel (your left/their right) as high as possible. Then move past their guard (to the right), keeping low. The leg will slide off. Use your grip on the lapel and pants to haul them toward you; this will bring their shoulder up so you can slide your left arm under there. Then repeat with your right arm so you can get the hold down.

Then we did drills for ouchi-gari and kouchi-gari; kind of tricky, because we don't typically work on either of those throws.

No randori tonight. Looking forward to Saturday's class.