[...]Georges . . . had tried a juji gatame (cross arm lock) at the end of round one and a Kimura (ude garami – entangled arm lock) in round three, neither of which were successful.[...]
When learning anything new, there can be times when you’ve got sensory overload — too much to remember: do this, do that, don’t do that, watch how I do it or he does it. When you’ve finally learned how to do a technique, a throw or arm bar or other technique, there are still things [...]
[...]Chris was demonstrating koshi jime (hip choke). Basically uke is in a loose turtle. Tori reaches over uke’s shoulder – the shoulder right beside him – and grabs the opposite lapel. With his other hand, tori goes under uke’s opposite arm and grabs uke’s other lapel.[...]
When learning a new sport or martial art, your previous experience may help; at other times that experience may hinder you [...]
Ground holds look relatively simple: one guy is on the bottom, another on the top, and the guy on top holds an arm or squashes a chest or some other body part. In reality, they are complex placements of tori’s body on uke’s. If one or more of the placements is wrong, the ground hold [...]
There are quite a few effective methods of escaping kesa gatame (scarf hold). All of them require some effort on your part and lots of practice.[...]
Kesa gatame (scarf hold) looks as though you are doing virtually nothing, but, if applied correctly, is very strong and difficult to escape from.[...]
Our classes are unusual: we begin by grappling for about an hour. A match could be five minutes or forty-five, if the pair want to keep at it.[. . .]
[...]Since this throw is low to the ground and you have uke wrapped up so tightly from the beginning, this throw lends itself very well to MMA. There are so many positions you can be in afterward.[...]
Ippon Seoi Nage is the one arm shoulder throw, which when performed well, looks spectacular and will give tori the ippon, meaning the full point to win a match.[. . .]