Checkmate Self Defense

BALANCE:

Balance is perhaps the most important principle in any sport. The basic strategy of Judo, for instance, is to keep your opponent off balance while maintaining your own. By keeping your own balance, you will have use of your maximum power while your opponent uses part of his energy trying to regain his balance. The more off balance he is, the more strength he will need to recover.

Jay, Wally. small-circle jujitsu. United States: Ohara Publication, Inc, 2007.

The following principles form the basis of Professor Wally Jays Small Circle Jujitsu and an important part of Sensei Leigh’s style. During this weeks class we focused on transitional flow and rotational momentum. Continue to refer back to these ten principles and understand how we apply them.

1. Balance
2. Mobility and Stability
3. Avoid the Head On Collision of Forces
4. Mental Resistance and Distraction
5. Focus to the Smallest Point Possible
6. Energy Transfer
7. Create a Base
8. Sticking Control and Sensitivity
9. Rotational Momentum
10. Transitional Flow
    1. Exert Continual Pain During Transitions
    2. Create Maximum Pain Without Dislocating Joint
    3. Mobility During Transition Rather than Stability

I’m posting my first video clip to the Judo blog (hopefully).  It’s 30 seconds of Chip throwing me.  He knows how to make his Uke look good!  BTW, Chip used to HATE Morote Seonage!

Those of you who haven’t had the pleasure… This is Chip!

Throws Demonstrated

1. Ippon Seonage
2. Ouchi Gari
3. Hari Goshi
4. Morote Seonage
5. Sode Tsuri Komi Goshi
6. Kata Garuma

Pat Cassidy (aka, Durable Sensei)

Brian’s Juijistu Blue Belt was Monday, 9/28. Congratulations Brian! Here’s a set of photos from his test.

Sensei Leigh’s commented to Brian that he got more efficient as he became tired. Brian became very efficient Monday night!  At the end you can see him trying the “play dead and the bored bear will go away” technique on Nate. Wrong kind of bear!

Brian finished with typical flair: he escaped the pin and then threw Nate to the ground, roughly.

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Pat (as dojo image king)

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