Today was...a lot of pain. But also a lot of hard earned lessons. So, to start off, I went to the Academy and we did a lot of double underhook pass prevention, which was cool. I need to practice my left backroll apparently haha. Sparring was pretty fun, I can definitely tell I got a lot better because I have absolutely no problem manhandling people that are my weight. It's nice that I always spar against people heavier than me, because lighter people are not much of a challenge. Except Adrian that kid is squirmy LOL.
Sparred with Rashid, the dude who almost ripped my shoulder off. Learned some valuable lessons; need to find better ways to tie their arms up and rest. Though I took the hits okay.
Anyway, Judo was the interesting part. I pushed myself to do the class even though I was somewhat tired and my body was somewhat complaining. But I got through it. Got thrown a LOT haha, a couple times on my right side, which I wasn't used to.
So then during the throw-everyone-in-your-group-5-times drill, there was this short blue belt girl (who's kinda cute...LOL not gonna do anything though), and she had to throw me 5 times. And because she was so short, when she threw me, I wasn't very high off of the ground. Which meant not a lot of time to flip over...and WHAM. Landed right on my kidney. The part that fucking hurts haha. At least I'll get better at ukemi.
Then, during sparring, I got Uchi Mata'd in the balls. They actually had to do the resuscitation on me LOL. Also, same guy kneed me in the jaw, but I think that'll be okay. The side of my head slightly hurts, but I can think just fine so it's all good.
I held him (200+ lb black belt!) in Kesa Gatame and he couldn't get out! HE COULDN'T GET OUT! :O Also he had a hard time getting out of my Kami Shiho Gatame. He had to brute force it haha.
Anyway, so what I discovered sparring with Yuki Sensei was that so long as I rooted, he couldn't sweep either of my feet off of the ground. But what stability cost me was mobility. If I wanted to attack, I had to become either light, or dump all of my weight into one foot so that at least part of me was light. However, keeping all of my weight over my OWN base, and not trusting him with any of it was the best result. He's not really letting me anymore, so it was hard for me to get him, but I will steal his circling tactics. He circles away from the side (complete the circle) of my lead leg (or attacking leg), so it is really hard for me to make an attack. Angles, angles, angles!
Tip: When doing Ippon Seoi Nages, or any hip throw in general, turn your head in the direction of your throw. I'm guessing this is for spinal alignment reasons. Also, high collar grab and pull the slack out! You know why though.
So I guess it has become this game of knowing when to use what. Which makes a lot of sense. Be able to adapt your tools to the situation.
I lost my "move from your center" wristband today, so I'll have to work on that. The few times I did though, a TON of effortless power. I'll try being more loose.
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