sunday the 31st

combinations are the theme of the month, blame Mississippi-mud-skippin-Rob for this:

Inside trip footwork:

•start with box-stepping, step back and pendulum in/out of it. (I forgot to bring up the African stepping work that we've played around with before, "jing" I think it's called; but things were getting pretty 'tarded with the Capoiera references and chi-blasting bullcrap) Work on a good rhythm and balance being too close vs. too far away. Having a jacket to work with really helps get a better feel for this.

•hook your R to his L or your L to his R. Same side lead. Try to keep you hips forward the whole time, don't turn out/if you do correct by pointing your toe straight ahead. Keep your hips driving forward.

•finesse version is to swing your back leg out&away, an arcing back-step, and use the momentum from your leg to execute the takedown. Its a geriatric version of an odbiv, nice for us old guys...

•power version is to just drive straight into your opponent, here it will REALLY count if you can keep your hips forward and drive thru the direction of the throw

from inside trip same side to inside trip cross side:

•just swing your leg so that you gather the cross-side leg up with your leg. Don't hook/grapevine it, that will lead to troubles as you will be off-balance and wrong-footed to baseout. Sweep your leg across and make contact with your upper, inner-thigh first. Leg to leg equally. Say you start with your R leg vs his L leg, then sweep across to his R leg.

•if your opponent sprawls against you, you can reach down from your outside-L arm in this case- and clamp down on his hip, gather up the leg like you're going for a log-roll with it but just drive forward.

think of this photo but with the right leg wrapped around the opponents right leg as well:

http://www.judoxiquexique.com/kuchikitaoshi.jpg

•in both cases, you have to keep your hips driving forward, don't turn away from your opponent.

outer-reap, starting with a "draped leg":

• this is more for the exercise than for the throw itself, standing side by side, hang your leg over the outside of your opponent's and hop-backstep into position to execute the reap.

•remember that the "tripod" point can be exploited equally to the front or the back, and that and the hip-alignment is what this drill primarily addresses.

kick, punch, throw combo's:

•jab+cross+inside-thigh kick, then jab+clothesline into an outer-reap, like so:




•jab+cross+knee, then jab+clothesline+knee/follow-thru into an outside reap

here's a video (I'm all about the video action here!!):




outside crescent kick/step over guard and cross to the freakin'skull!:

•this is a favorite of mine, Ben's too as he demo'd it with me. Make sure that you use your lead-leg and just press the opponent's legs over and down. As you come over&across, drop a cross to the head, be sure that you're loading your hip behind your punch to get as much out of it as you can! :