Trying to think of a way to emphasise the importance of strikes and weakeners in creating the opportunity to apply a technique, I came up with this. Think randori, but instead of looking for throws, you're maneouvering your partner to set them up for armlocks (as they do the same thing).
Anyone done this before? It was quite revealing (to them ). As expected, very few straight armbars were caught (except for one ude gatami), but a number of #4 armlock (arm twisted up behind the back) and #3 (shiho nage) were got. when I introduced wristlocks to the equation, the only one that really came out well was kote gaeshi.
So then using weakeners made everything much easier to catch. Hopefully the lesson is learned, but the armlock randori was so much fun (I had a few goes, too) that we'll probably do it a lot this term.
Rob
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Q. Use the word "judicious" in a sentence to show you understand its meaning.
A. Hands that judicious can be soft as your face. I'm feeling
"opportunity creators"
I like the sound of that far more than weakeners, people make the assumption that a weakner will always work which as we know is not true, however they can be more readily applied to creating opportunity.
Randori of wrist locks and strikes. Kano would turn in his grave!
Is randori like this very realistic? In reality, would you ever try and lock sombody who knew in advance your intentions? Better than no live expernce though, I expect.
I should imagine it would be only slightly different to "tanto randoori"
and if Kano were to turn in his grave he would have to look no further than the fact that Judoka are now called "players" and people wear different coloured gi's and so forth
Really, it's just taking the concept of "aliveness" and applying it to armlocks and wristlocks in isolation (rather than together with groundwork, whcih adds complications).
Rob
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Q. Use the word "judicious" in a sentence to show you understand its meaning.
A. Hands that judicious can be soft as your face. I'm feeling
). As expected, very few straight armbars were caught (except for one ude gatami), but a number of #4 armlock (arm twisted up behind the back) and #3 (shiho nage) were got. when I introduced wristlocks to the equation, the only one that really came out well was kote gaeshi.
