Judo adventures 5.12

[yuuago]

Attending: Me, C, Ma & Jo & Ge, Gr, Car, Eth, Bry, Ev, Mo, and M1. Ry-sensei instructing.

Started with turnovers. Then progressed to working on upright.

For the upright, he wanted us to experiment with some unorthodox grips. C and M1 will be attending a competition in Winnipeg, and apparently they get a lot of people from Ontario and Quebec who like to experiment with less-traditional grips.

Grip procedure: Grip sleeve with left hand, grip same sleeve toward the armpit with right hand, then use left hand to grip belt. While gripping belt, step forward.

This sets up for an opportunity to do sumi-gaeshi, an unorthodox left-handed ouchi-gari, or a kouchi-gari.

I found this one interesting but definitely would need a lot more drilling to get the hang of it, especially since we rarely do sumi-gaeshi and also this variation of ouchi-gari is very unusual.