Tom is a brown belt in Judo and is soon to go pro as a boxer. He also works full time as a doorman up in Bristol, so often has to use his Judo training to eject troublesome patrons or break up incidents.
It is Tom's knowledge of Judo that I am trying to leech upon during these sessions (not really overly bothered with Boxing) and it really is helping my stand up improve no end. We've generally just been drilling a couple of throws each week, then stand up sparring for about 10 to 15 minutes.
Previous weeks we've done the old faithful Seoi Nage shoulder throw, the O soto Otoshi hard trip and the O goshi hip throw (Glenn Cutter will be elated that I have actually bothered to learn those names :o). This week we worked on a trip where you do a little skip step forward and take out the guy's opposite leg.
I have found out that this technique is called Ko Uchi Gari and thanks to the joys of Youtube, I'll never have to write up a lengthy Judo description. Yay.
Video courtesy of Matt Brink, Youtube.
We drilled this both sides and then threw in a variation where you don't hit the first trip so you switch the position of your leg and trip his second leg instead. Very cool move.
We then did about 10 minutes of stand up sparring during which time he managed to take me down about a half dozen times. I managed to get in three myself which was an improvement over the total bitching he gave me last week.
For the portion of the session where I taught him, I showed some simple chokes from guard that can also be adjusted to use from standing. The Loop Choke that we did in Ian's class a couple of Thursdays ago was one and the Cross Choke using the Fist on one side was the other.
After that we hit the mats for a bit of ground sparring which went pretty much the way you'd expect it to although his escaping techniques are improving and I can definitely see him attempting some of the moves I've taught him. I'll just need to drill with him more so he can get to the subs more naturally with out tipping me off way in advance as to what he's going for.
To make matters even better, a boxing trainer named Matt, who has been training a lot of young guys in boxing while I've been there grappling in recent months has asked me if I fancy doing a bit of No Gi training with him on a day or two a week. Could be good. Well all mat time is good really.
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