Follow up to Takedowns from the Knees

I want to share a very interesting post that appeared on Judo Forum by the poster, Happiness Is A Warm Gun on entries to newaza.

“One of the senseis I trained excessively with was a newaza specialist, who frequently would remind me that the best way to enter newaza was rarely with a sacrifice throw, which makes you start newaza on your back, but instead with sasae tsurikomi ashi, de ashi barai, and other attacks that frequently leave the opponent kneeling if they aren't successful. He would even just pull guys down onto their knees by both lapels, and because there are so many dangerous submissions available from sprawl, the threat of being pulled to one's knees made most people plant their feet and straighten up as soon as he would yank down on their lapels, which invariably rooted in place and left them vulnerable to a variety of different followup attacks.”

This is interesting since lately the throw type takedowns have not been too successful lately for me but getting the opponent on all fours and using Obi Tori Gaeshi and various turnovers has worked extremely as well as jumping into sweeps.

Nathan (my instructor) has suggested using the get to the feet position as one method to move quicker on my entries and I will try this and report the results in the future.

Below I would like to share some videos from newaza genius Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki