Not the easiest throw to catch your opponent in, but once you do, your opponent is flying! Uchi Mata
Effective against standing and bending opponents alike. On the complex side, but can definetely give hell to opponents with bad balance/flexibility. Morote Sionage
Well i oughta have at least one of those insta-ippon moves oughn't i?! Simple foot sweeps, such as: Deashi Harai
Used in most throw setups. Moroto Gari
A simple double/single leg. Most brutal takedown technique ever created. Most judokas are completely unfamiliar with either of those and senseis consider them moves not worthy of real judo. But i dont know how many wrestlers have to win tournaments with 1 move and 1 move only for judokas to consider this as viable. Will be trained while opponent tries to counter with sprawl/throws similar to Tawara gaeshi
Kata Guruma.
Will be trained strictly to counter those who like to bend over a lot.
I will also try to use flying armbars and triangles, standing kimuras and perhaps guilliotine against bended opponent. The later is dangerous tho for various reasons.
lol funny, I was staying up late yesterday watching videos of karate techniques (yea i know this is not karate but they have similar formats for the videos ;P)
On August 20 2008 03:54 travis wrote: oh, I didn't even see that it was you who made this blog post
how long have you been doing judo? I always thought it was pretty cool
are most of the throws useful in real fight-type situations?
ive been training it for 2 years or so now. Its pretty cool but its rough. A lot of judokas take pride in how rough they are. I got an oldschool japanese sensei, and he doesnt think pain exists^^
I would say some throws are but only in winter as you need clothes to grab ahead of All those that dont need grip like that can be more effectively learned by picking up some wrestling instead.
Ive never been in a fight since i started judo tho^_^
On August 20 2008 03:57 travis wrote: what's the throw where you like, pull them backwards with their stomach area on one or both of your feet and you flip them back over you?
or is that even a judo move?
This is a weak move, because your feet is so far away from your body the opponents spin time is significantly long, and because the area of the feet is so small, your opponent can easily slide to the side of your leg, ending up on top of you in a dominant position, and maybe even in a holding.
basically its like an inferior version of tawara gaeshi and the optimal throw isnt actually exactly like the one in the video, i was just to lazy to search, and it might even have a different name, but basically you put your knee in opponents stomach instead and put your feet in a spooning fashion on opponents balls. It requires plenty of strength to be able to execute in consistently(tomoe nage is an inertion move- easy on your legs) but success rate is much larger.
EPT
