Kotegaishi Series

This morning Robin-Jinks came to the morning training as he normally does every tuesday, this provides a great opportunity to do some Taijitsu. So as always, got up around 4.45am, into the dark and the cold and had a cup of tea.

We practiced Kote-gaishi, in all we practiced 13 variations as follows:

1 Muna-dori (Static)
2 Muna-dori (Kihon)
3 Kosa-dori (1 - lead with the thumb)
4 Kosa-dori (2 - rotate hand out)
5 Katate-dori (Stepping across with the rear foot)
6 Kata-dori (push hand in face and punch then step back as uke steps forward)
7 Yokomen-uchi (stepping around with uke)
8 Shomen-uchi
9 Ushiro-ryokata (1 - stepping to the side, arms in the air 'banzai' then rotate)
10 Ushiro-ryokata (2 - hand on top of the head rooster style)
11 Ushiro-ryokatate (1 - normal grip)
12 Ushiro-ryokatate (2 - pulling arms together, twisting wrist out)
13 Ushiro-ryokata Ki no Nagare (move one way then then other - airplane feel)

Pretty sure that Nemoto Sensei follows a set pattern for each technique although I am sure that he knows a lot more variations. His kotegaishi is obviously very strong, he uses the hips and a fast movement at the end to throw, moving kinda diagonally backwards, to be clear of a punch in the face from uke. I also got shown a slightly different way to turn uke over which was interesting. Although I always feel this is a bit of a mute point from a martial perspective as they are already lying flat on their back with you standing over the top of them !!

We then, as usual, did 30 mins of sit ups, squats, press ups etc.. Robin made much easier work of it than he had last week. I also feel that I have also improved a great deal in such a short space of time, I even got a 'subarashi' from Nemoto Sensei when I was doing the body raises, because they were consistently so much higher than before when I could hardly even finish the reps.