Official Judo Thread VIII

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One of my clubs had us doing these on the crash pad. I paired up with a guy that was 280lbs and tall but once I got him off the ground, my back automatically arched due to his weight and bam...picture perfect suplex. All the white belts thought I was a god.


...good...
 
One of the best couterattacks against osoto-gari! Twist inwards shooting the hip to stop opponents leg action while lurking arm around his waist. Then lift and get your inner leg under his osoto reaping leg and ready for takeoff...
 
I had to use my judo in the streets for the first time.

I was on a train, and a little old lady stumbled when the train started going.... BOOM mega eri grip. I don't know wtf was going on with this train but another, not as old nor as little lady stumbled 10 seconds later.... BOOM mega eri grip.
 
Ippy said:
I had to use my judo in the streets for the first time.

I was on a train, and a little old lady stumbled when the train started going.... BOOM mega eri grip. I don't know wtf was going on with this train but another, not as old nor as little lady stumbled 10 seconds later.... BOOM mega eri grip.
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LOL

beats doing a ukemi at the pool like all the other stories!
 
So I learned Harai Gosh in class today. Is this a move that beginners should be doing? It feels very awkward to me, because I have to balance on one leg. I might be doing it wrong. It's a move where I feel like I have no control.

Edit: with harai goshi, I try to 'scoop' his legs up, is this a bad habit?
 
cino said:
So I learned Harai Gosh in class today. Is this a move that beginners should be doing? It feels very awkward to me, because I have to balance on one leg. I might be doing it wrong. It's a move where I feel like I have no control.

Edit: with harai goshi, I try to 'scoop' his legs up, is this a bad habit?
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As a fellow beginner, I also find harai goshi (and uchimata for that matter) also very awkward.

But, ya, keep at it. Harai goshi is one of the defining hip throws of judo, and probably something you should know how to do, even if you're not great at it.
 
cino said:
Is this a move that beginners should be doing?
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no. beginners should only do bowing, ukemi, and listen to the old black belts talk about kata.


cino said:
It feels very awkward to me, because I have to balance on one leg.
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you're not gonna like the other half-hip throws. or footsweeps. or osotogari. or judo really.



cino said:
It's a move where I feel like I have no control.
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well of course, you just said you had no idea what it was, you must learn, padawan.

cino said:
I might be doing it wrong.
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ya think?


cino said:
Edit: with harai goshi, I try to 'scoop' his legs up, is this a bad habit?
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yeah. you're probably trying to back into them. i'm betting your heel is still on the floor and you're having a really hard time figuring out why you can't move them forward and end up collapsing straight down from the strain of your grip?

you probably need to work on your kazushi to make sure uke is getting out over their toes. it doesn't matter if you practice the leg motion if you don't have the hand technique to use it. you're better off working morote/ogoshi/koshi guruma and osotogari until you're able to stay on one foot.

once i learned why good kazushi and tsurikomi was important, the throws became much more intuitive. i thought less about the throw as a 'move' by itself, but a sequence of events sharing certain key principles with other judo throws.

once you know how to move your hands and footwork relative to uke you have the luxury of using what's easiest or most comfortable. for me, harai, osotogari, uchimata, and hanegoshi are very, very similar throws in setup and principle, and the throw i pick depends on the space and context.

like, the MOTION of the throws is roughly the same, it's the impact and trajectory that differentiate them. maybe the grips too? i'm not so sure a harai with an underhook isn't an ogoshi with a leg reap, and i've never been sure when it becomes ashi guruma/o guruma.

just grab ahold of someone and swing your leg a few thousand times. you'll get the idea.
 
this video is garbage (most of this guy's videos are) and it makes me sad it's the top result.


this Harai is excellent, pardon all the ads


don't tell Einarr, but i think it's my tokuiwaza

edit - a video with the morote grip for all the pedants
 
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so bad they don't even know it's bad



cino, do you see how at the end of this video he's completely flat-footed? how he doesn't unbalance uke at ALL with his turn and how uke basically has to jump for him?

contrast how little this guy turns his shoulders or swings his foot with the way Koga does.

and hey, your harai might not be much but it's probably already better than his...
 
^RJ, none of that shit beats the "leeaannn back" o sato gari by MMA Surge.

That ninja getup does put it up there though...
doyourkegles22 said:
LOL

beats doing a ukemi at the pool like all the other stories!
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Ha I have plenty of those "ukemi in da streetz" stories myself.
 
That ninja one was painful to watch. I didn't even open the second one.

How do people get this delusional?
 
The Ninja one was awesome, they look like they're from the league of assassins. I'm going to wear a bandana to judo from now on.

All the MMA judo throw videos usually suck.

Yeah, RJ's definitely been more Einarr like recently. Perhaps the loss has affected him more than we thought.
 
I know that when I throw harai goshi, I make a conscious effort to ensure there's a TON of space between uke and I...
 
Ippy... you may be insanely jealous. I think on my FB feed there is a pic of Pavia in a bikini. Can't share bc it's a private photo.
 
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