mon-wed : morning yoga
monday: 20 minutes of elliptical
tuesday: two hands on the same side and YANK, baby v. of harai, too easy to confuse with o soto. a little randori, a little extra work on ko uchi.
wednesday/thursday: moved a lot of snow.
thursday - elliptical, first time in a hotel fitness center though.
denver classic, women’s novice middleweight. 4 in my weight class. I’m the heavy by about 10 lbs, rest are clumped together.
1. nice teenage green belt. Don’t remember a lot of it, I know I was slow and awkward, but she didn’t do anything astonishing either. After awhile she got a good throw and won.
2. unsociable teenage green belt. I got some kind of awkward throws, think they were mostly bad counters, sorta had her pinned a few times (2 yukos!) then the worst counter had the angle all wrong, and she landed on my face and got the point. Then I had my little failure to breathe incident.
3. same tiny blind girl as last time! much better fight this time. I tried a bunch of stuff but she was very effective at using that low center of gravity. I kept getting awkward tani o tochi’s until one was good enough.
I could tell I had no wind - but this was totally to be expected since I hadn’t been to practice. I only felt really slow the first match. I felt like my fights went better - I was definitely trying to do things (though someone pointed out that I was mostly trying to do the same thing over and over. whoops. beats standing there!) and some of them were sorta working. I was much happier about accepting a 3rd place medal for this one.
friday,saturday - elliptical. ugh
not the flu. maybe partly the remains of landing on my head so badly. I even took a sick day from work, and maybe should have taken at least one more. It’s taken since last Saturday for me to sleep a single digit stretch of hours.
it started with achiness and headaches and need for sleep. Moved to sore throat. Then to big time runny nose. Then just run down and wobbly. And now it’s done.. in time for me to travel and miss judo. Awesome!
monday, friday - elliptical
wednesday - 30 min wii fit
tuesday - deashi barai, randori - osoto to o uchi worked nicely
thursday - seo nagi, ogoshi as a counter, easy exercise: 110 pushups, 100 situps. naiwaza
saturday - denver buddhist temple novice tournament. 4 women signed up. We range in weight from 100 to 215 lbs. We also get a brown belt to fight, but she drops out before the rankings.
1. tiny blind girl - she moves in for a slow forward throw, I move in for a slow tani o tochi, I win
2. the featherweight - couldn’t get her to hold still long enough to get anything. she dropped me on the corner of my head, then stacked up my legs and got a great throw
3. the heavyweight - couple of things looked promising, but didn’t go off. did a counter so badly that she got the yuko. she got another nice yuko later, and won on points - 3 minute round.
4. the brownbelt - threw enough to move us to the mat, then when I thought I was not in a holddown and was clearly wrong, I tried to wait out not being able to breathe. I had to give up before they either called the holddown or whatever was going on.
Somehow, this = 3rd place. 3rd out of 4 is an improvement over 2nd out of 2.
Things that went better: I actually tried to attack. I remembered most of where to walk and when to bow.
I definitely did not have my game day mojo. Except maaaaybe in that first round. I really do take blind people more seriously, because I know they are taking the game more seriously. Things I can actively work on: breathing, trusting my throws, having a sane grip when I’m out there. I don’t tighten my forearms in randori the crazy way I do in tournaments.
No barfing. Had a bagel for breakfast and it sat ok. If I could eat a little more, that would be good.
Monday - elliptical
odd bits of wii fit
tuesday - ko uchi gari, seo nagi, randori. alex is not scary and I even managed to counter him once. osoto as a fake starts looking plausible
thursday - tani o tochi, heeza garuma, randori. osoto as a fake still works. esp starting on left side.
and we borrowed a wii, complete with wii fit. curious whether the balance stuff is actually helpful.
sunday, wednesday: elliptical
monday - 20 minutes with the kettlebell. I should be more careful with turkish getups for awhile
tuesday: tae o tochi. psa psi - osoto - seo combo
thursday: 3 person drills for seo. tae o tochi. tani o tochi. load someone up on your back and run down the mat idoicy - reiterating my hatred for moroto seo nagi, and jacking up some kid’s ankle. randori with the grownups - doing much better against the teenage girls (I actually threw Sh. once. and stopped a few of hers.)
I need to get back on the pilates & elliptical bandwagon :(
tuesday: soto maki komi - didn’t injure anyone this time. osoto w/ a twist - if you can’t get the right side, or just want to fake it, w/out moving your hands, move to the other side and sweep THAT leg. Worked surprisingly well.
thursday: tomo e nagi. gah. After about 8 falls I finally realized that I need to LET GO so I can slap. Then everyone tried to give me helpful pointers which weren’t instead of letting me concentrate on that. I hate landing on my kidneys. Tani o tochi - always fun. I think Joe was taking pity on me for my terrible falls. Naiwaza - the little guys are fierce! some good tae o uchikomi practice.
tuesday: footsweeps. broke my left baby toe EXACTLY the way I broke my right one last year. (as uki for footsweeps, I seem to be incapable of holding my damn toe out of the way.)
thursday: the hop on one foot balance game. seo nagi, with lapel pull, which I finally believe in. A new sacrifice throw - the one where you’re supposed to have your foot inside their knee, and really we all just kicked each other in the crotch a lot. (Sumi Gaeshi maybe?) Some good neiwaza - considering I have a broken toe - and a little randori.
mon-thurs: pilates
mon,tues,thurs: elliptical
wed: DDR
Saturday - First Judo Tournament!
Lessons learned:
I won the first round of my best two out of three. Caught her off balance and took her down. Lost the second to her throw. The third went the full time, with both of us getting penalities for not throwing enough. She got a throw to go off well enough to get a half point, and so won when the time ran out. I was soooo tired for most of the last round that I couldn’t get my legs to move enough to try to throw, I just concentrated on staying up. The judge hated me so much. There’s a photo of me having her down during round 3, but I don’t remember it too well, so I’m not sure what the deal was. I’m pretty sure I didn’t get a half point or anything for it.
Weirdly, I had an AWESOME time. I felt sick before, during and after. I had to fight the one person I didn’t want to fight. Somehow, it was still fun. So I’m really looking forward to the next one!
