In both classes this week we have been focussing on a move called Harai Goshi.  Now, I gotta tell you, as a fairly big guy, my immediate reaction to this move (under my breath) was “This move sucks.  I feels so much like the head throw, but I really like the head throw better… I’ll never throw this move.”  I stuck with that thought until last night when I was practicing against Sean.  Now, I mentioned I’m a fairly big guy.  Sean’s a bigger guy.  Trying to throw a head throw on him is not all that easy.  It turns into a game where I am trying to muscle him.  Now luckily for me, I have super-human strength, so such a  move is still achievable.  But I can see how a mortal might have problems
So instead I started focussing more in earnest on the Harai Goshi.  I was impressed.  If I timed it right it was pretty easy to get a guy as big as Sean hitting the mat pretty good.

We topped that off with a bit more work on the arm bar.  I am still not completely sold on the arm bar either… as a wrestler I tend to like a side control position, then working for a pin or other move from there.  But  am guessing that, like the Harai Goshi, I just haven’t got the feel for it yet.

Also, I wanted to upload a few pictures from class… hope you all enjoy them.

Below we have:

Sean and Jason practicing.

Me working on a throw

Jason practicing his “invisible chair” technique.

My son, Tyler proving that gravity is a suggestion… not a law.

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