Training Diary - 26 July 2006

Present: Me, Thomas, Herb, Jungjing (I know that's not spelled right), Jeff P, and Jeff ?.

Warmup, throw->juji-gatame, moving uchikomis.

Thomas and I went over the throws he'll need for his eventual blue belt grading, all except the makikomis (though we did cover Craig's advice to Herb and myself, regarding getting in close, so that you hit the ground as one body). Then we did a couple of brown-belt throws (yoko-wakare and yoko-guruma).

Herb and I did the kata, without throws. Herb's getting better and better at lifting me for kata-guruma. At this point we're mainly working on the little details. Maybe soon we'll videotape it.

After that Thomas showed Jungjing kesa-gatame, using me as uke. I showed Thomas the backward-somersault escape from kesa-gatame, which then led to the leg-pick escape from juji-gatame.

Then I went home and showered. Man, it was hot in the dojo.