Singapore training trip

Videos of our recent trip to Singapore where we trained with our friends from The Dojo

Thursday's Training (16.2.17)

We did a lot of newaza drills on Thursday.

Just because you've straightened someone's arm doesn't mean you can easily get a submission. We did drills where we asked uke to resist with a straightened arm while tori carefully tried to gain a submission. 

What do you do when you can't even straighten the arm in the first place? You can always do the Ecky-Gatame or English Hold Down, which allows you to get an osaekomi while at the same time be in a position to straighten the arm should uke let go of her grip and begin to turn out. We did lots of drills on that.

We see this situation quite often, where uke is on her front and tori basically steamrolls uke over and pins her. The best way to escape this situation is for uke to voluntarily roll away from tori once she realizes that there's no more stopping the steamrolling action. Instead of being roll over onto her back, she does an over-roll towards her left to end up on her front.

Nesu, Alvinc & Jia Yi... taking it easy after class.

On Thursday, we have two simultaneous sessions going on: the beginner's recreational class and the competition training class. Luckily the dojo's big enough to accommodate both.

Tuesday's Training

Warm Up Drills
1. Korean Wave drill
2. Pushing Out drill
3. Keeping Down drill
4. Groundwork Tackling drill

Newaza Skills Drills
1. Alligator Roll into Hold Down
2. Alligator Roll into Juji-Gatame
3. Koshi-Jime

Randori
1. Newaza Randori
2. Shiai-Style Randori
3. Piggy-Back Randori

Osoto-Gari

This coming week, we will work on Osoto-Gari:
i) Ai-Yotsu Osoto (same stance)
ii) Kenka-Yotsu Osoto (different stance)
iii) Ippon-Osoto (done from an ippon-seoi-grip)

For newaza, we will continue to work on the Neil Adams' armlock
i) the roll
ii) arm lever (to straighten the arm)
iii) Ecky-Gatame

Birgit Ente's Masterclass on Seoi-Nage

Masterclass Techniques: Newaza

Alongside the 24 Tachi-Waza techniques I'll be teaching for the rest of the year (on Tuesday nights), I will be teaching the following 24 Newaza techniques.

I will show the basics together with competition variations, and where possible, combination attacks. Effective defenses and escapes for these techniques will also be taught.

Osaekomi
1.    Kesa-Gatame
2.    Yoko-Shiho-Gatame
3.    Kami-Shiho-Gatame
4.    Tate-Shiho-Gatame
5.    Arm Trap Roll
6.    Matsumoto Roll
7.    Fallon Roll
8.    Kata-Guruma Roll
9.    Lapel Grip Roll

Shime-Waza
10.    Hadaka-Jime
11.    Okuri-Eri-Jime
12.    Kataha-Jime
13.    Gyaku-Juji-Jime
14.    Koshi-Jime
15.    Sode-Guruma-Jime
16.    Ashi-Jime
17.    Trap Choke

Kansetsu-Waza
18.    Ude-Garami
19.    Juji-Gatame

Sankaku
20.    Yoko-Sankaku I
21.    Yoko-Sankaku II
22.    Sankaku from Below
23.    Straddling Sankaku
24.    Huizinga Roll

Masterclass Techniques: Tachi-Waza

For the rest of the year, I'll be conducting weekly Masterclasses on Tuesday nights. These classes are supplementary to the regular classes that are held on Thursday and Saturday nights. They are optional, for those who want to learn advanced judo.

These are the tachi-waza techniques that will be taught. Basic and competition variations will be taught, together with combinations into other techniques; combination from other techniques; and  counters.

Hand Techniques
1.    Morote-Seoi-Nage
2.    Ippon-Seoi-Nage
3.    Tai-Otoshi

Foot Techniques
4.    De-Ashi-Barai
5.    Kosoto-Gari
6.    Osoto-Gari
7.    Kouchi-Gari
8.    Ouchi-Gari
9.    Sasae-Tsuri-Komi-Ashi
10.    Uchimata

Hip Techniques
11.    Ogoshi
12.    Koshi-Guruma
13.    Tsuri-Goshi
14.    Sode-Tsuri-Komi-Goshi
15.    Harai-Goshi
16.    Utsuri-Goshi

Sutemi-Waza
17.    Tomoe-Nage
18.    Sumi-Gaeshi
19.    Ura-Nage
20.    Yoko-Guruma
21.    Utsuri-Goshi
22.    Yoko-Otoshi
23.    Tani-Otoshi
24.    Soto-Makikomi