Sorry for not throwing out a post earlier this week… I am just taking a few days to heal up.  Nothing major, just a few aches and pains here and there… turned my ankle a bit, etc.  I should be back in class on Thursday though.

In the meantime however, I have been looking through some videos with my son, Ty.  He is really trying to work on his Ipon Seonagi.  We took a look at this video of Koga from Youtube.  These are some spectacular Ipon throws.  As I watched them, looking for little subtleties of Koga’s style, little tricks that my son can incorporate to improve, it jumped out at me that what was one of the most important things seems to be so simple:  Commit yourself to the throw.  Really, really commit.  Watch Koga in the video… he is practically doing a headstand on some of them.  Once he grabs on he doesn’t just sort-of-lean-over, and hope that maybe he breaks his opponent’s Kazushi.  He waits for the moment, and them commits everything he has to taking it.

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