Second Shiai

Now this one was really cool. I had to sacrifice the prefect dinner (RM25 down the drain!!) for a night of randori, but even though i didn't get ippon i was pretty happy with myself - Vynerriddo couldn't throw me even though he was much more experienced . I'd be willing to bet it was luck and my height, but the match against a shorter person didn't actually do justice to the tewaza i had developed over the last month.

You see, Vyner is super short when he goes into a defensive position - about my waist - making it almost impossible to use my form of Osotogari since it would be going against his body and tiring me out just to push him back. His speciality is Uchimata - meaning if i enter too carelessly he can lift me up between my legs and swing me down. So the entire match was newaza - two of us grappling on the matt after falling down (many times!) together.

Rather daft, i'd say, but i sucessfully managed to evade most of his throws, not giving him any ippons. Next bout i'll do better - i swear it (if i'm allowed to actually swear, that is ;D). I'll be focusing on the training.

Now my next objective would be to refine techniques against shorter people. Perhaps Soto Makikomi would do the trick ...