Randori is supposed to be a time when you try different things. Unfortunately not many people do that. There are usually two reasons for this:
i) They treat randori as shiai and therefore fight very conservatively, taking no risk at all
ii) People are creature of habit. They prefer to stick to what they know instead of trying something new, which will inevitably fail a lot when you first try it.
Last night, there weren't many lightweights for Aziz to fight with so I ended up doing four rounds of randori with him.
It was not by design but we both ended up adopting a grappling-style of judo which involved getting a high grip (and in many cases, a belt grip) on uke. Perhaps this happened out of necessity. We already knew each other's judo so well that our usual favorite techniques weren't working on each other anymore. So we had to try something new.
That something new for us happened to be a grappling-style of judo which really doesn't look or feel like the traditional judo we all are used to. But it's good to try new styles and new techniques to see if they work for you.
Randori is meant to be a time for experimentation and that's exactly what we did.
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