I have been working a lot on my Makikomi before, during, and since the Utah Judo tournament.  One of the problems that I have run into is that I have primarily been trying to throw the “Osoto Makikomi”, which can be seen in this video:

Just as a note on the above video… it really doesn’t show what makes the Osoto Maki work… the real key to making this work is power.  You need to drive through you opponent… almost as if you are running past and grabbing them on the way by.  You also need to reall concentrative on driving down.  I had a real problem in competition with not committing enough.  For this move to work well you ned to think about your forhead driving toward the mat.

But even given that, I ahve had some problems.  You can see fromt ese pictures some of my mistakes with the Maki:

Now, let me just say in regards to these pictures:  All three of these are exampels of poorly thrown Osoto Makikomi’s… so hopefully we can all learn from my mistakes

The first Maki my momentum and direction is just all wrong.  Instead of plowing through the opponent I’m hitting him sidways.  But then to make maters worse, instead of spinning into a Soto Makikomi (without the O… we’ll cover this ina  minute), I just sort of fall onto my side as I try to pull him down.  Bad move.

The other two are bad as well… The palcement on my left foot is too far in the middle rather than outside.  This is really wrong position for the Osoto Makikomi.  It puts me reach and leaning back (which cost me the match in the last example here.)

But you can’t always plow through… if the person is big and strong, or leaning forward… sometimes you have to take them back (like I ineffectively tried to do in the first attempt here.)  That is when you turn the Osoto Makikomi into the Soto Makikomi, as shown here:

http://superjudo.tv/episode-22-makikomi/

I am still working on this move, and am not entirely sure yet how this will work in Randori… But I’ll keep ou posted

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