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| Our dojo is Budo KL and our judo club is KL Judo. We are primarily a competition club although recreational players are welcome. |
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| Our competitors all wear the Fighting Films Superstar 750 judogi with our dojo and club logos embroidered on the sleeves. |
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| These are really good looking judogis as you can see. KL Judo is the official distributor of these premium judogis in Malaysia. |
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| Some players arrive well before the official session starts to get in some extra competition training. Here, Shen and Aunter do some drills involving two-types of ura-nage and ogoshi. Notice the use of crash pads. This is something we believe in strongly. |
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| Today's class is pretty small with just four players on the mat. Some players are injured, some out of town, some preparing for exams. But as long as you have a minimum of two players, you can train. And what an awesome training it was for us tonight. |
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| The main technique the players worked on was the kouchi-gari. I taught them three major versions. The skipping kouchi made famous by Neil Adams; the kouchi-gake made famous by Hirotaka Okada and also regularly used by France's David Larose; and kouchi-makikomi a very common throw used in combination with ippon-seoi-nage. |
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| First, I showed the players how to do kouchi-gari from a kenka-yotsu situation (skipping kouchi & kouchi-makikomi). |
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| Then I showed them how to do kouchi from an ai-yotsu situation. Normally in such a situation, kouchi is done as a gake, not gari. |
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| After a hard workout, we had a nice dinner. Since Sven is going off soon, we decided it would be his farewell dinner! :) |
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