Kuzushi: The Key to Throwing 

Fabulous breakdown. On another note, while an absolute understanding of kuzushi is mandatory, in more dynamic situations it is less of a factor... a charging opponent has no structure. Or in a reverse embrace, breaking balance generally requires you to sacrifice your own posture (sutemi) in order to throw your opponent... Bind, Throw yourself, Reconstitute your balance as the weight passes. In my experience the most essential component in throwing is Commitment, absolute devotion to the task.

This is sexy. It looks like something that you might see in a 1970s Hong Kong Kung Fu movie. Judo is fun and practical as well. It's admirable that Jigoro Kano wanted Judo to be available to anyone and thus the Judo Federation puts a fixed price on training. Good stuff.

Kevin you are a genius. Excellent work.

These videos are absolute gold. You have done good by not just calling yourself a systema guy… you are a real martial artist and great teacher. Awesome drill by the way.

I loved the little “systema story lesson”. It’s hard to find anything about the systems roots anywhere.

Excellent breakdown and explication as always. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏾

Learning and understanding kuzushi has elevated my practice exponentially.

Thanks for some beautiful tips

This is good stuff. 🙏

Great drills; I might try it with a high weight resistance band. And maybe a tree someone doesn't mind me wrapping a mattress around, haha

Good explaining and examples

Very insightful, thank you!

Good lesson. Subscribed.

Thanks for this,Sir

Nice Video. Kevin Secours. 👍

Check out Nick Lowry's series on kuzushi in judo and aikido on the Kaze Uta Budo Kai channel. Dynamite stuff. Thanks for spreading the secret to the Russian arts!

Would you use the same principles for Ashi Waza techniques or freestyle and Greco roman wrestling grips and take downs? Is it the same way in establishing Kuzushi then Tsukuri followed by the completion of the technique (Kake) because sometimes you don't have to have grips to get to a sweeping single as you could do it from a duck under or just being fast and explosive to be at the side of them before they have a chance to defend... Would you be going straight into Tsukuri then Kake with that? Is that ok to do or should you always try to establish Kuzushi first? Thanks

I think in Judo/Jiu Jitsu are to much throws that rely on brute force like you demonstrated here. This ripping and tearing thing is rather hard not "Ju". I think a lot this is caused by competition and randori. Because your partner expected a throw knows how te be thrown and work against it. A throw should come in disguise not expected otherwise it didnt make much sense at least to me. Maybe thats why Kano was against competition.

I read that the taekwondo association has revoked Putin’s black belt. Does that mean that Putin is now a white belt? Just kidding.

I had black belt in karate long time ago, when i was training Judo with our national team I used to tell them about the power of using hips and if it exist in Judo....none of them understand or utilize it....no winder they didn't do good in tournaments....🤣🤣