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Learn Judo - A Guide For Students
It is clear that your opponent in judo will possess a great deal of power against you if he is able to use his lower extremities to throw you off. It is therefore necessary for you when you learn judo to know how you may immobilize his lower extremities to gain the upper hand. There are a number of ways to do this, and they are outlined in this article.
Let us study the methods of immobilizing the force of your opponent's lower extremities:
First let us imagine your opponent is lying on his back. In the fundamental grappling posture, you grasp his trousers at the knees. Drop your hips forward as quickly as possible by making use of the force with which you are pulling his knees to your right back corner and of the force of your kicking the mat backward with your right leg. You can then displace your hips quickly to the front. This motion produces a large momentum.
Try to induce it in your opponent's chest with your chest by lying over him. The force applied to him is so large that his arms become too weak to oppose it. Now grasp his back collar with your left hand while putting the strongest possible pressure on his chest. Then hold his waist under your right arm. By taking this posture, you can apply yoko-shiho-gatame (side four-quarter holddown).
A second way of immobilizing the force of your opponent's lower extremities is quite straightforward and should be fairly simple once you have begun to learn judo. It is to bring his left leg up to your right shoulder and then sliding your body to the same right side.
A third way is to make your body advance to the left side of your opponent while keeping pressure on his left leg. You bend his body in the shape of a lobster by carrying his left leg against your right shoulder. Next you suddenly push his immobilized leg against his chest. The momentum will then be produced by this motion. Your opponent cannot push his leg back toward your chest because it is in close contact with his own chest.
Completing the posture you allow his leg to slide to the left. Then hold him on the mat with yoko-shiho-gatame.
A fourth method of immobilizing your opponent's lower extremities is possible and should become second nature to you when you learn judo. Your opponent's body is bent in the form of a lobster under the pressure of the lower part of your abdomen. He cannot use the force of his lower extremities or his waist and abdominal region. You advance your body by taking advantage of his immobilized condition.
The fifth method of immobilization differs from the other four. Move quickly and advance your body, avoiding the resistance of your opponent's lower extremities. Grasp his trousers at the knees. Then you advance your body to the right side by putting your right knee on the right side of his abdomen and continue into the holddown.
All these methods are very effective and should be used when the case requires it. Remember when you learn judo that practice makes perfect.
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