Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Seoi nage.

I was able to work my seoi nage entries tonight in competition class and it was a delight. I like the seoi nage because it seems like it would be so hard, but it ends up being so easy if you have the setup right; it helps that my hips are pretty much always underneath my opponents'-- thanks God!

And it totally takes the person off balance-- one minute they're facing you, feet on the ground, feeling like they have the world by the tail (or at least you by the gi); the next minute, they're jerked up and forward and you're disappearing underneath them and their feet are skywards and wham, they're on the mat.

[This is the ideal, which I cannot yet accomplish without considerable kindness from my uke. -Ed.]

I know I'm a long way off from landing this against a resistant opponent, but it was fun to play with, and even easier when we did the walking version.

Alas, I popped something in my thumb, which is now swollen and red like a plum, and I tweaked my wrist doing a mount choke. The jaw Jordan abused was the unlucky recipient of my training partner's elbow umpteen times as she worked the same choke on me. Still, a satisfying day all in all.

And-- it rained. It stormed, actually, in the wee hours of the morning. It was almost five in the morning and I laid in bed, looking out the big arch of our second-story window into the branches of a large crepe myrtle, watching lightning flicker and listening to the rain, enjoying the cool wet breeze through the open glass.

I'm pretty lucky and definitely blessed.

3 comments:

Viro said...

Here are two videos on seoi nage training.

The first is easier to make happen, all you need is a rope and a tree. If I did this, I would try to construct a target/pad for the hip strikes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdQcN8FE5-c

I like the beginning exercise in second video a bit more, because it looks like it'd be good exercise. Check out their dojo though, woof, it looks like they're training on hard-wood floors!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdQcN8FE5-c

Georgette said...

Both the same video?

But yeah-- at our school, we have a resistance band looped through the cage at the back, and I just aim my hip/derriere for the padded uprights.

Thanks for the comment-- please post the second link! :)

Viro said...

I'm sorry. Mongo had bad attention span; forgot second link.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4VkoHbAIf0