Sunday Oct 26th

duck-unders:

drill: standing partner holds hands out and you duck under&grab them with either:

•single leg; use your lead arm to push their extended arms up, don't try to grab their arm/wrist/don't try to grab just push up as you shoot-in. As you come in, bring your cross-arm to a high crotch pickup. From there you can step and turn so that you can shrug them over to their back.

•double-leg; push with your lead arm again and instead of sending the cross-arm in for a hi-crotch, reach around their body. If you're going right-hand lead then you reach around with your left and keeping your head on your right side so that you shoulder-block with your left side and then bring your right arm around. Clamp at the hips/femur conection, below the buttocks. Lift slightly to get them off their feet and drive to your left, using your head&neck to press their body. Don't go to your right corner and stuff your head onto the mat-having them land on top of your skull,k?

•A nice single-double followup=if the opponent sprawls the single-leg down, just follow it and then-the moment their foot hits the mat-pick them up with a double.

pummeling drills into throws:

•working pummels for underhooks: your opp gets one underhook on you, as they're bringing the next one in simply grip that arm@top of elbow and turn with the arm sliding your other-underhooked-arm over their head and spin out into a head-lock throw. For people having trouble with this, start with one underhook and hold the arm that they'll send under you. Let your opponent lead your action by stabbing this arm by you.

•footwork/finishing variations:
1.deep backstep and into an Uki-Goshi/hip-axle throw. Your back-step has to be very deep so that you can turn as if you are trying to sling them across your back like hanging a dead-moose over the back of your horse. If you are head-locking with your left arm, then you want to be turned so much that your right hip is against them.

2. Shuai-jiao step, drop-levels quickly to avoid trying to muscle this throw, use as much elastic energy as you can. You want to feel "springy" when you land in the lunge posture, not "core-activated' or some-such nonesense.

3. headlock and drop knee. this works if they base against you so you can't set up the other two throws. Drop the outside knee and forward roll while hanging onto them.

*we did some other stuff but I forgot to write it down!* anyone 'member?

anyone...

anyone...