Sunday's Program (11.3.18)

Newaza

Juji-Gatame is a popular groundwork technique, especially in Europe.

Last week we did drills on sankaku-gatame. This week we will work on juji-gatame. Since almost everyone in our team is already familiar with this technique, I will not be spending too much time on the mechanics of this technique. We'll just do a quick overview of the three entries into the juji position from a Figure-4 Grip (Neil Adams' Grip).

We'll break the drills into three modules:

1st Module: The roll
- Roll to the back
- Roll to the front
- Sitting back

2nd Module: Straightening the arm
- Pull towards the head
- Arm lever

3rd Module: Ecky-Gatame (The English Hold-Down)

Tachi-Waza

Takato setting up to do side takedown

For standing, we will work on Side Takedown. This is not really a traditional technique although it bears some resemblance to yoko-otoshi. Many of our players have expressed an interest in learning this. It so happens this is one of my main techniques which I specialized in (I learned this in Camberley when I was training for competition). There are actually multiple versions of this technique -- multiple grips, multiple entries and multiple finishings. I'll go through the basics and show some of the more common versions. Should be very interesting for our players.

Randori
We'll try to have at least an hour of randori. If we're lucky and everything goes on time, we can have 1.5 hours or randori. I'm a strong believer in randori so we must have many rounds of this. And with about a dozen players set to be on the mat on Sunday, I think we can have a good session of randori.