Competition

A great video on Ted talk last weekend.

I saw this video on Youtube and loved everything he said about training specifically for your sport. So many judoka play judo and don’t actually train specifically for competition and then realise why they don’t win. But they don’t win because most the week they are playing judo, not doing competition Judo. I encourage you

Last week I found some great grip fighting and attacking videos when you and your opponent are in a left bs right scenario. Hope these help you out. The first 2 are by American Shintaro Higashi, he has some great tips on how to keep your opponent out, while creating space to attack: Next video

Last weekend I fought in a BJJ comp and here are my matches: This next match I lost very quickly via a ankle lock that was more a knee bar. I won both my first gi match and first no-gi match with a close side juji gatame, the exact same as the armbar video below:

Today I uploaded to youtube a really nice morote seoi  nage you can do when you are fighting a stronger opponent who likes to pull you in close and push your head down. This first one is when you are fighting a lefty who is trying to pull your head down. It plays up the

This week I was coaching some teenagers at Judo and some of them were lying face down or staying in turtle and not attacking. A lot of the time these guys got turned over and held down, armbarred or strangled. After this happened a few times I got the class together and told them that

Here is my favorite left vs right Morote seoi nage attack when I am fighting someone and it’s kenka yotsu (which is Japanese for left vs right). The key is to square up your opponent with a hard ashiwaza before doing a massive pull to get them off-balance. Don’t forget to check out my other