sunday Oct 5th

How do people have time for this crap? *sigh*

We spent the morning doing almost every roll we could cover as a warmup so that we were ready for:

Backwards Granby Roll:

the idea is simple, instead of rolling into your opponent so that you can get a pin-position, we roll to the outside so that we can get to a scarf/North-South position.

•your opp has an arm around your waist, roughly in a referee's position, trap the arm and hold it to your waist-line

•roll to the outside, think of the trapped arm as an axle to turn over, roll over your shoulders with commitment and they'll follow you over nicely- or get their head stuffed!

•you can also reach over the trapped arm and catch the leg on the same side. It's kind of like a 5-point Granby, if you don't know what that is don't worry about it. This way you'll come over into a side-cradle that is very efective positioning

•from standing it is the same, just with footwork adjustments: either drop-knee into the direction or your roll or backstep your lead-leg behind and roll into that impetus.

Bodok/fireman's carry:

all that was simple huh? Well IMO, the same thing but turned on its head-so to speak- is the Bodok

•step-in between your opp's legs and send your hand hi-crotch at the same time, move one side of your body as a unit

•pull@sleeve/elbow-grip and look thru the arm you are attacking, get the nape of your neck into the armpit like you are defending a Guillotine

this sets up the "shoulder-roll" part of the throw, instead of your shoulders hitting the floor, they're hitting your opp and it should basically feel the same: shoulder to shoulder as you move through the throw.

•kick your trailing leg out to side, directly across, this creates an "outrigger" that you end up driving off of. There is a triangulation of extended foot/planted foot/extended hi-crotch hook.

•look-thru past where you are throwing your opponent, they should land so you're N and S of each other. Anything less and you've stuffed the throw or fallen short on your follow through!