Judo UK

Today, at the grading in Cardiff WIS, I was graded to 6th Kyu (Green Belt) level! Two fights, the first fight was lost to a stupid sacrifice throw on a guy that was a few stone heavier than myself. Not great! The second went better and won by Ippon with Tani Otoshi. What I found was I rushed into the first fight, rashly trying to create opportunities which ultimately off balanced myself and thus I lost.

The second I found myself capitalising on the mistakes made by Uke, which is an important lesson, especially at the lower grades of Judo. As we are still very raw in our techniques we ultimately end up throwing ourselves! So my advice is dominate grips, keep balance and don’t overstretch yourself too much. Wait for the opponent to make his / her mistakes and capitalise.

Watching the higher grades, it is apparent that this technique will not work due to the fact that your opponent will make less mistakes; it will be you on your back! For all you people that want to see my final fight here it is! It’s not much technique wise, but it win none the less!

P.S. Excuse the commentary at the end…