Judo: Class 15: Broken Toe & Almost Threw up!
02/08/10 13:59 Filed in: Judo
Broken Digits: 1 (But not mine whew!)
Times nearly blew chunks: 1
New throws: O-goshi
Deceptive Titles: 1
So this was a great practice. I really pushed myself. I got through a lot of the warmup. I’m definitely getting better at all this!
The standout from this session was learning the through O-goshi which means ‘big hip’. It basically means you insert your hip under the opponents hip and use your mechanical leverage to throw them. Compared to all the other throws I’ve learned, this one seemed to really click with me, I was GOOD at it.
Before I got it to learn it though, one of our other team members unfortunately broke his toe. Ow! At the beginning of class even! Sucks to be him. Glad it wasn’t me. These things happen in Judo.
So, I was really pushing myself this time, and when it came to Randori I was given it my all. My opponent Oleg (a brown belt who really should be a black belt) was just stiff arming me keeping me away. He was doing this to help me, obviously, but it was very frustratring. It’s exactly what it sounds like, holding someone forcefully away from you by pushing on them when they try to get close. I just couldn’t get ‘in’ close enough to try any of my techniques, but I tried hard!
At the conclusion I was so low on blood sugar and winded I was very dizzy, and for the first time at Judo I actually ripped off my Gi top to get more cooling/oxygen and wobbled to the bathroom. I was pretty close to throwing up, but I didn’t! Whee! I know this makes Judo sound horrible but it’s not. It’s just proof I’m getting bad-ass workouts.
Times nearly blew chunks: 1
New throws: O-goshi
Deceptive Titles: 1
So this was a great practice. I really pushed myself. I got through a lot of the warmup. I’m definitely getting better at all this!
The standout from this session was learning the through O-goshi which means ‘big hip’. It basically means you insert your hip under the opponents hip and use your mechanical leverage to throw them. Compared to all the other throws I’ve learned, this one seemed to really click with me, I was GOOD at it.
Before I got it to learn it though, one of our other team members unfortunately broke his toe. Ow! At the beginning of class even! Sucks to be him. Glad it wasn’t me. These things happen in Judo.
So, I was really pushing myself this time, and when it came to Randori I was given it my all. My opponent Oleg (a brown belt who really should be a black belt) was just stiff arming me keeping me away. He was doing this to help me, obviously, but it was very frustratring. It’s exactly what it sounds like, holding someone forcefully away from you by pushing on them when they try to get close. I just couldn’t get ‘in’ close enough to try any of my techniques, but I tried hard!
At the conclusion I was so low on blood sugar and winded I was very dizzy, and for the first time at Judo I actually ripped off my Gi top to get more cooling/oxygen and wobbled to the bathroom. I was pretty close to throwing up, but I didn’t! Whee! I know this makes Judo sound horrible but it’s not. It’s just proof I’m getting bad-ass workouts.