Friday's Program

Bischof Roll in action

The Bischof Roll is the favored osaekomi turnover of Olympic Champion Ole Bischof of Germany. It's very similar to the Fallon Roll used by World Champion Craig Fallon but involves a slightly different grip.

Today, we will take an in-depth look at this roll and practice the various versions:
a) Bischof Roll (lapel-belt version)
b) Bischof Roll (collar-belt version)
c) Reverse Bischof Roll
d) Bischof Roll from Guard Position

As usual we will start off with newaza uchikomi where tori practices the roll on uke with no resistance, for each of the versions.

Then, we will do resistance training for each of the versions.

Finally, we will do resistance training where tori is allowed to use any of the four versions and uke must try to avoid or escape being rolled.