Judo and sparring, August 3, 2010

I'm exhausted. It was exceedingly hot tonight. Great workout, but my ears are still ringing.

Judo, we worked on the entry, completion and variations on kata garuma or the shoulder wheel, fireman's carry. Though there is some question about this "leg" first technique in modern judo competitions, it is still a very good throw for BJJ.

I like it because it makes it easy for me to get under people shorter than me, especially if I take a knee.

We worked on the basic throw, dumping it short and then how to make the throw work on a defense sprawl (by moving legs, windshield wiper style, towards their feet.)

We also worked on some arm triangle enteries from mount and kesa gatame.

In sparring tonight, I got smashed a lot. I need to work on side control escapes very badly. Towards the end of sparring, I got fairly decent at getting my knees with a strong underhook.

I also liked very much moving to north/south to get them on a side and to isolate an arm. I found it very effective.

I need more work on staying low in butterfly AND in having more than one sweep there. I need to rewatch Moura Robison and the counters he uses to still get the sweep.