[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
Sounds like you’re having fun with the judo. I have too many dodgy joints to do anything like that - I remember trying a kung fu class quite a few years ago and the break falls aggravated my (already angry) rotator cuff so I decided it wasn’t for me. Still, it’s nice to do something fitness-based that is also a skill.[/quote]
I feel like I’ve encountered a lot of Judo guys that no longer compete because they ‘messed up their necks.’ Hopefully it’s just a facet of competing, where people throw as hard as possible, but it’s definitely going to be something I listen to my body about.
My mom’s got this 20 min Denise Austin yoga vid that’s been working as a great wake me up, so I’ve been trying to do it each morning. It seems like it should be nothing, but I tend to do a lot of falling over and not reaching as far as I should. It’s just challenging enough, there’s also something about Denise Austin that’s comforting because she’s so highly associated with my mom in my head.
Went to the gym on Saturday, moved some stuff about. It’s starting to feel right again.
Warm
Ankle Stuffs
YTLW
A1) DB Bench 25 5x3 30 5x3
A2) DB Row 40 5x3 45 5x3
the hula hooping actually sounds quite fun. hope you get more chances to roll but cool that you are having fun with Judo. i heard someone say that they mostly had problems being thrown by people who didn’t know what they were doing rather than people who did know what they were doing. maybe like how it is harder rolling with the ballistic new people in bjj? dunno…
I asked in TK, but plenty of you guys shoot things, so the boy is visiting for valentine weekend and friday we’re going to the shooting range, but since I’ve only ever shot water guns I have to take a safety course? What does that entail? He has a HK p2000, remington woods master .30-06 and a benelli legacy. Different types of guns different classes? Is this even going to be fun?
No one? You mean I have to figure it out for myself? Humpfh
More Hula Hooping this week. I can’t seem to figure out how to get it to stay around my rib cage. I may have to do some youtube research.
All week and I only got to the weight room once!
Warm
Ankle
? Squat 125x5x5
So, I thought what I’d been doing was a goblet squat, it isn’t. I’ve just been hanging onto the DB, not holding onto it, does that make sense. I don’t know what to call what I’ve been doing. I attempted to hold onto it, but can figure out how to without wrist pain. I think I may just go back to real squats soon. The ankle ROM is way better than last time I tried to squat.
A1) DB SLDL 25x5x5
A2) Split Squat BWx5x5
The hardest parts of these is the balancing. My ankle doesn’t love me, and there are so many people around I have to work really hard to focus. There was a gaggle of teenagers in front of me and I really just wanted to tell them to STFU and workout, but that’s not really how life works.
Then I went home, but I really do need to start tacking more onto workouts. The number of people around is not going to decrease and wanting to escape them can’t keep dictating how much I do.
I’m going to have to look at how to do cartwheels. I keep just plopping over during the warmups and I think it’s because I’m thinking about them wrong. It seems ridiculous, but sometimes I just need to know the actual mechanics to make things work, rather than just doing them. I was the kid whose mom thought she get hurt so cartwheels have never been in my repertoire. The entire judo warm up falls into that:
Cartwheels
One handed Cartwheels
Round Offs
Somersaults
Backwards Rolls into Splits (splits!?!)
Then we drag each other down the mats by grabbing onto each side of a belt.
Then on to throws. I’m going to have to start asking about names and spelling for my notes. Unlike BJJ judo has an actual vocabulary. Anyway, for this one, they had same side lapel grip. We broke it much like in BJJ. Tightening the sleeve under the grip and putting downward pressure on the thumb with a hand on top. In BJJ at this point, I’ve been getting my back taken a lot. Both my hands are on one of his and so he has a hand free to just reach around and grab my lat to secure my back (there’s something dirty in that sentence isn’t there?). I asked about what I was doing wrong. I’ve been tightening the sleeve, and then immediately pushing with the other hand and continuing to push until the grip breaks. The top hand should be more dynamic. It seems obvious, but the top hand isn’t for slow constant pressure, but rather for quick strong bursts since it should also be defending.
For the throw, once the grip is broken, keep the sleeve grip and go for a same side collar grip. Then fancy judo foot work. Right foot crosses the median line of his body and step near his right foot. The left foot crosses behind the right. Then you make him shift his weight to his right foot by wrapping his lapel over his shoulder and pushing it down. Take him down by circling the right leg through his. At this point I really wish I knew the name, a youtube vid would really help out. Next time!
While the instructor was showing the throws, he was gripping the lapel oddly. At first I assumed it was because his fingers were broken, maybe he doesn’t have that ROM anymore? It’s judo, fingers are broken a lot. It turns out he was gripping for a reason, and mostly to prevent his finger from being broken. I’ll try to attach pictures, but they way most people grip the lapel is the same way you grip the bar, or anything, all four finger wrapped around and the thumb to reinforce. He was gripping without his thumb or pointer finger. His grip was just pinching between his three other fingers and the meat of his thumb. It really does keep your pointer finger from being left behind during throws and no thumb reduces the tension on your wrist during things like seoi nages. I’m not sure if it’s a stronger grip though, he said it was, but I don’t see how that’s possible. Stronger with two less fingers? I’ll definitely use it, I like my fingers mobile and still attached to me.
The next throw was a Russian derivation. Starting with them grabbing your same side lapel on the right, cover the hand with your left left hand and bend in a little to create a bit of a wrist lock. Your right hand should come over the top of their arm in order to bend it a little. Then reach around (lol) and grab their lat or belt. Then your left leg steps close to their right foot and your right shin frames across their torso. Knee on their left side rib cage foot on their right hip. Then sit and with the framed leg throw them over the top of you. It’s a lot like the throw our black belt showed when he was last at the academy. This is also where the judo differs from BJJ, no follow through. They just threw and got up, I’ll have to think about how to keep them down.
I’m going to be less detailed about the last throw, mostly because I didn’t get it. It felt like it should have been a hip toss permutation, but I didn’t get it so apparently not.
Then Randori (the only judo word I’ve learned) which are rounds. I’m not too sure what I’m supposed to be doing here. It’s standup and I have to fight instinct to sit to open guard for the whole time. The only takedown I really do is the single leg, and apparently that’s not allowed in judo (no leg attracts). So I just end up playing defensive grip fighting, unless they treat me like a baby and clearly give me a throw they know I know.
I went with a woman that set stuff up for me, and we basically just drilled what we had learned in class. Then a teenage boy that went hard so I just defended the throws with grip fighting and good base. I felt bad about not actually doing judo and going for stuff, but I don’t know anything well enough to get it when the guy is fighting. The last round was with a tiny blind woman. Man, no idea what to do here. I kept good base and if she rocked me, I went with it. None of the throws were clean throws though, so she followed me to the ground. I had no idea what the Judo ground rules were, so I let her try some stuff then just stood up. She wasn’t going to get anything on the ground.
After class I asked my grip question and watched the MMA guys roll. I don’t know, maybe I’ll jump in there one day, but BJJ guys that do MMA and MMA guys that do BJJ are two different beasts. I prefer to stay away from the latter.
DL 135x5 145x5 155x4x5 160x5
Yeah, so I need to be going heavier right off the bat. 160 wasn’t bad at all. I was acutally feeling pretty good about it until the guy next to me loaded up his bar to about the same weight and started curling it. Ah, perspective. On the positive side, he was nice eye candy. I think I got caught watching :o
MP 20x5x5
Lat Pull down 11?x5x5
Then I played a bit with grip. I can kinda mimic the pinching lapel grip on a 10 lb plate so I just hung onto them 'till failure for a few times.
Hi pch - I have no clue about shooting guns.
and the plate pinches will def transfer to your grip and lifting. I wonder if plate flips would be a good one too?
on cartwheels, I can do them with my left hand leading but with the right side, I just flop. I don’t know what the difference is. I’ve been trying to solve this for some time. I was thinking about try to sort of roll along a wall to see if it teaches my body to get up there. Maybe video of yourself would help?
[quote]nlmain wrote:
Hi pch - I have no clue about shooting guns.
and the plate pinches will def transfer to your grip and lifting. I wonder if plate flips would be a good one too?[/quote]
This does look fun (is that what you mean by plate flips?). I don’t know if I could do much more than 5lbs at this point, but I’ll try it tmrw. The key will be not breaking more toes.
[quote]arachne12 wrote:
on cartwheels, I can do them with my left hand leading but with the right side, I just flop. I don’t know what the difference is. I’ve been trying to solve this for some time. I was thinking about try to sort of roll along a wall to see if it teaches my body to get up there. Maybe video of yourself would help?[/quote]
I don’t actually have video taking capabilities. I’ve been considering a flip lately, just because form help would be nice now that I’m lifting more.
Along the wall sounds like something to try. Maybe some supported handstands are in order just to get used to being upside down.
Youtubing how to do a cartwheel shows that I should have had this down as a 12 yr old. This one seems to be the most helpful so far. I haven’t been lunging or finishing facing the other way.
I played a bit with the yoga vid on sunday and came to the ‘why didn’t I think about this before’ conclusion that I haven’t been contracting my abs when trying to balance. I kept falling over for dancer pose, and then she cues to contract abs and it was a world of difference. I think I’ve been so concerned about ankle stability that I haven’t been thinking about the main stabilizers. I’m going to have to keep it in mind with SLDLs.
I also found out that the basement floor is not at all like tatami, and either I’m going to have to learn how to break fall out of a cartwheel gone wrong or only practice them on the mats. I’m going to have to throw in the against the wall handstands for yoga time, it’s a totally foreign feeling for my shoulders.
