Judo adventures 4.22

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Attending: Me, Ma & Jo & Ge, Mo, Eth, C, and No. TN-sensei and T-sensei instructing.

Today was a basic class. We didn't learn any particular throws; it was just conditioning and practice.

I partnered with No. We did some stationary uchikomi, and then moving uchikomi. We were instructed to do both ippon-seoinage and osotogari for the moving uchikomi. I need to make sure that my feet end up parallel, rather than one significantly in front of the other. It's hard!

Then we did some grip fighting. Not much to say about that. Since me and No are not competitors, we weren't focusing on speed etc, just getting a grip period.

And then randori. I did one round with T-sensei. Ge and No did a round, and both managed to get some really good throws!

Ge asked me if I do competitions. LOL, NO. No thank you. I'm too old! ... I mean, I know that some people older than me compete, but. I really cannot be arsed to pay that much money and travel that far just to get my ass handed to me. No way.