I was shown that detail about not wrapping your wrist a few years ago from a high level South Korean player and it changed my morote so much. Basically it meant I could actually do morote without hurting my elbow. Such important details, as always.
It has been my question on what is the best way to use a wrist when doing morote seoi nage. My conclusion after talking to many is that there is no "one best way" because we are all different in terms of body strength, flexibility etc. It means that we just have to find what works best for us by trial and error.
Ever since I saw Nakano Shintaro do the deep seoi nage I've loved it. I'm a tall guy but I aspire to get it right. I'm lucky to have the mobility, but need to perfect the speed and control. We've practiced seoi nage in hikidashi a lot to learn the dynamics better with my instructor. I've struggled to make the turn step not too long, but seeing how you actually manage to get the foot all the way behind your still standing foot is mind boggling and cool. You just realize how much you have left to improve when you see someone very practiced do it. Interestingly enough we've practiced curling the hand instead of letting it stay open to prevent wrist injury instead. Beginners tend to load the tsurite hand with all of the weight of uke when they are trying to pull with arms, so I guess it's safer to start that way when people don't have the technique down and don't have trained wrists 🤷♀️ but often instructed to grip a bit lower on the lapel to give more free movement for the tsurite hand when curled. I wonder if it'll be a problem to change the technique eventually to open wrist. I found the biggest fault for me was pulling with tsurite instead of hikite and I started practicing without tsurite at all for a bit. Great video, thank you! I love that you give very very advanced strategy advice to set it up like the gi and gripping tricks. I've only seen them in almost secret technique western judo videos, not in teaching basics even though those seem extremely important to doing judo in practice.
Thanks you for this ! I personnaly think seoi-nage are the most harder throw to achieve in randori. (i'm a lightweight judoka ) I'll try the wrist/elbow advice , thanks so much for your work !! Strongly waiting for part 2 ! PS : i have a question : what are you traditionaly write on your belt in japan ? Is it your name ? Dojo's name ? More personnal thnigs ?
Teacher ! May you share with us the breathing of the throw ? We breath in during kusuzhi? Hold the breath , and exhale when we bow and throw ? I am out of breath when doing a few uchikomi 😮💨😮💨
