Week 4: Juji-Gatame & Ura-Nage

Very good turnout, the best this year so far, resulting in excellent randori and shiai.

We've finished our yoko-sankaku module and are now moving onto a new one, juji-gatame. For standing, we worked on ura-nage, a technique that several of our players seem to really like using. It is a very good counter against forward attacks especially in light of the fact that leg-grab counters are no longer legal.

As usual, we started the randori session with newaza randori.

Then after a short water break, we moved on to tachi-waza randori. Even though the players were tired, everybody likes tachi-waza randori, so it wasn't a problem.

Finally, towards the last half hour of training we did shiai. By then everyone was exhausted but everyone loves shiai, so again, no problem.