#deashi

[mayxthexforce]

mutatiio:

" it suited her. " he shrugs. death watch and almec, although biased beyond belief, had plenty of horror stories about the woman. unimportant while simultaneously being a key player to so many. a leader, but one who turned her back on her people. a lover, but not enough to leave the order. a mother (according to rumours), but she turned her back on her so-called son. death watch needed her - needed her dead. everything. nothing. the perfect description for such a rotten woman.

she remains cruel even now. maul had not known her in life, but he knows her now.

a warning. part of his mind is warning him about the blood loss. the body, even now, does not want to die.

" i see her often. " maul says. " she is vindictive. " she could be no worse if he were dead. a bad omen lingering in corners, in shadows. plummeting him further as he believes the state he'd once been in inevitably calls him back. lingering around him, watching him. drawing near only when he closed his eyes, whispering cruelty and then returning to her distant spot when he opened them again. she is dead. her eyes are gone. she cannot see me. yet, she sees all too well.

but, he has more to do. he cannot die. his arm. there should be some meager supplies on his ship. maul turns, far too quickly for how woozy he suddenly feels. vision still unfocused, he catches only yellow tattooed skin. his breath hitches, not quite looking at her.

"savage?? " his voice so soft that it barely sounds like his own. stumbles forward, toward her. "brother?? "

Savage. That was another name she knew. It prevented her from taking offense to remember that it was somebody's name and not something he was calling her. The Nightsisters' champion. Allegedly, yet another of Talzin's spawn. Yet another Nightbrother who had managed to get out of Dathomir. Magash had been raised in a way that painted the men as inferior to women in the ways of what the Jedi called The Force and yet, it seemed to her like for some reason men had an easier time getting out of the planet than the witches ever did. Perhaps because the Republic had also underestimated them.

But that doesn't matter now. What matters is that he is delusional, and it's a miracle he hasn't been injured by anyone yet. But blood runs out for everyone, estranged Nightbrother or not.

"I'm certainly the guardian spirit your brother sent to aid you," she said.

It sounds like the only logical option. She cannot think of another reason why she found him before anyone else. It just feels like too much of a coincidence that the whispers of the mountain carried the song of his dread towards her, just as she was venturing further away from the singing mountain than she ever had before in an attempt to quench that thirst for knowledge that she had been imbued with by the Jedi Knight, Kav Pavan.

Certainly, Jax also didn't predict this to be the outcome his influence on her would reach.

She reached for his uninjured arm, not daring touch the other one just yet. Blood aside, spirits know what kind of infection might be festering in that overly-abused wound.

[corporate-judoka]

Obligatory First Post!

So hi! I’m Corporate Judoka. I’m a remote Systems Engineer who wanted a better way to get off ass and do something physical. I’ve always loved martial arts and always wanted to be halfway decent at one. I took Tang Soo Do as a kid and only got as far as a red belt before I had to quit. Now I’m in my early 30s and trying again with Judo.

Physically, I’m very out of shape and whatever conditioning I’ve had from rec sports as a kid or my on again off again relationship with weightlifting in my 20s have left me. I’m literally starting at a blank slate. This isn’t a fitness transformation or weight loss blog. Just a journal of me going from zero to a decent judoka.

My journey officially started in November. Here’s my stats to start of 2024:

Height: 5’1”

Weight Class: +78kg

Belt: White

Randori: 2, 2 minute rounds. Got gased out

Nage-Waza Stats:

Known Throws|Attempts in Randori|Success In Randori

Deashi-harai 0 0

O-goshi 0 0

Seoi-nagi 0 0

tai-otoshi 0 0

Notes:

Started adding a small calisthenics workout to help with building stamina.

Cannot somersault still, probably should work on flexibility.

Goal to be confident enough to do Ukemis from standing.

[jtstrainingblog]

16MAY24 We're continuing to focus on that upcoming tournament, and as such, it requires work. Boring work. Work on bags, work on combos. That's the problem with fighting- to really get good at it, you have to drill, drill, drill, and that's boring. Bored students run their mouths a lot. Heh. Kettlebells are good fixers of that issue.

Training:

1730-2030: Martial arts

bag work combos, pad work combos, long two,short three, and sanju ichi jo kata, review of Danzanryu Oku no kata deashi, seoi, & ogoshi hayanadas, kenpo long 4

[quasar1967]

The Deadly Hands Of Kung Fu #3

June 4th 1974

Trail Of The Ninja (Sons Of The Tiger)

Black Belt Jones

Angela Mao - A New Superstar Rises

Sweep Your Way To Victory

The Dragon Has Entered Part Two

Web Of Bleeding Vipers (Shang Chi)

Stan Lee Presents: The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu.  Includes: "Under the Pagoda!" A Deadly Hand's scoop The Sons of the Tiger star in "The Trail of the Ninja!"  "Black Belt Jones!" A movie review about the movie starring Jim Kelly, who also co-stared in Enter the Dragon,  "Angela Mao - A New Superstar Rises!" An in-depth report on the female kung fu sensation  "Sweep your Way to Victory: Deashi Herai (Advanced Foot Sweep)!" A 4-page instructional on the fundamentals of martial arts. "The Dragon has Entered!" Part 2. Continuing the most incisive commentary on the movie Enter the Dragon  Plus, Shang Chi, the Master of Kung Fu, stars in "Web of Bleeding Vipers!" 

[itsmarjudgelove]

Technique from Jujutsu 1913, a book by the Noguchi Brothers showing Jujutsu in the early 20th century. “Technique 28. This shows the moment you attack with Deashi Barai, attacking the forward foot.”

[samirsandman-blog]

Over the coming weeks we will do #gi and #nogi versions of the following throws #deashibarai #deashi #hizaguruma #sasaetsurikomiashi #udegaeshi #throwing #takedowns #judo #wrestling #bjj #bjjlifestyle #bjjthrows #bjj4life (at Global Martial Arts Academy) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpcgYCQhFPy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1kpmvxaa67o1

[jujitsupro]

Deashi harai #jujitsu #jiujitsu #jiujitsulifestyle #judokas #judo #judoka #jujutsu #nage #martialart #martialartist #selfdefense #blackbelt #grappling #deashiharai #throw https://www.instagram.com/p/BsZmmvUAVv2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=18l0xasr9ec8o

[theajjf]

Pay Attention! The Spotlight and the Floodlight - by Sensei Sean Hummer

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Pay Attention! The Spotlight and the Floodlight - by Sensei Sean Hummer

To begin to study a martial art is an interesting experience.  It often turns out that many of the things that you thought you knew how to do, such as walking, breathing, standing, kneeling, and even seeing, need the most work.  I often catch my students holding their breath while doing a simple forward roll.  I remind them that they are doing this, and to instead breathe out in coordination with the movement.  The breath and the body depend upon each other and when we are doing the wrong thing with one or the other, we tend to be in error.

So it is with the other simple things we must relearn.  We find that some of us walk heavily on our heels and need to lighten up.  We see others that need to be more grounded, lest they float away in the wind.  Even simple walking while doing Deashi Harai can be quite a challenge.  In fact, when I first learned that throw I was sure that I had two left feet.  It was a serious challenge for me, to simply walk along with Uke with the correct timing.  I had no hope of being able to achieve the desired effect of the throw because I couldn’t even walk correctly to set up the proper motions.

Consider your sense of vision.  When you look around, what do you see?  On a fundamental level you are looking outward from your skull and seeing two over-lapsing ellipses.  You are also seeing your nose, although your brain does you the favor of allowing you to ignore it easily.  If you are me, you also see the metal frame of your glasses and even the scratches on the lenses.  Interestingly, beyond those two ellipses and outside of your peripheral vision, there is nothing.  Not even blackness, just simply nothing (mu).

Taking this the next step further, we realize two things about our vision.  We can see both broadly and pointedly.  Broadly, we see everything in our field of view – this is the floodlight – and commonly referred to as peripheral vision.  You see much, but nothing in particular with this field of view.  Pointedly, we see a single focused point – this is the spotlight*.  I remember that as a child I once became very distressed because I realized that my two eyes could only actually focus on a very small single point.  I began to notice only this single point, and could not seem to break out of this pattern.  I could not see “normally.”  I was hyper focused on the spotlight, and was afraid I’d lost the ability to use the floodlight.  Luckily for me this was resolved when I was finally distracted enough to let go of the thought itself, then I suddenly realized that all was well with the floodlight again.

While doing any technique consider how you are using both the spotlight and the floodlight.  Going back to Deashi Harai, we can say that in order to “see” everything that is important we must not stare down at Uke’s feet.  The most obvious reason for this of course is that Uke will notice you looking down, this will telegraph your technique and it will not work (assuming you are doing randori).  Instead, point the spotlight at Uke’s chest area.  The floodlight (peripheral vision) will see all it needs for you to be able to throw with the correct timing.  This applies to all techniques.  Pay attention to how you are using the spotlight, and most importantly do not forget about the floodlight.

The next level we might consider is that of our overall consciousness itself.  By consciousness I’m referring to your awareness of the physical world with all your senses.  Consciousness is a reductive process, reducing the entirety of external stimuli of your surroundings to the few things most important for survival, or a particular task.  This is extremely helpful for us because it allows us to easily ignore the thousands upon thousands of nerve signals we are constantly receiving, much like we can easily ignore our nose although we are seeing it 100% of the time.  For instance, if I ask you to think about the heel of your right foot, you notice how it feels.  You will notice the pressure of the ground it’s resting upon, and perhaps the sensations of a soft shoe lining, or your socks.  But up until you read that, you were not thinking at all about your right heel.  It was a non-factor in your consciousness.  But now you are noticing it.

So it was with vision, consciousness can also be considered in the analogy of the spotlight and the floodlight.  Our spotlight consciousness is that which we are focused on and aware of specifically, similar to the focused point of vision.  It is the thing that is primarily of concern in regards to what we need to be conscious of at the moment.  The floodlight consciousness is the background of your awareness and doing all the automatic things you aren’t noticing right now.  It controls your natural breathing, it’s blinking for you, and it allows you to walk through a busy farmers market without bumping into anyone.  It’s doing a thousand little things for you while you are using the spotlight.  It is what is driving when you pull into the driveway and realize that you were lost in thought and somehow drove all the way home on autopilot.

To carry on with the Deashi Harai example, when you first learn the throw you must focus your spotlight on all the things you must do to control Uke and produce the desired outcome of the throw: in making sure that you have proper distance to Uke, as well as proper Kuzushi and timing.  The purpose of Kata is to repeat a motion so that it becomes automatic and internalized.  If you have trained properly, this means that the technique will work for you, without you using much thought to do it.  In this analogy, it means you are free to use the spotlight to focus on other things, and the floodlight is what is performing the art for you.

We practice this specifically in Sannin Nage.  You are grabbed by three people, and you must free yourself first from the Ukes who control your arms. Then you are to dispatch the Uke behind you with a throw, but you must remain aware of the first two, because you are likely not done with them.  The floodlight is focused on throwing the Uke to your rear, but the spotlight must be on those other two Uke.

This occurs in all arts.  When doing a technique for the first time, focus your spotlight on the task at hand.  Train the Kata properly over and over until it becomes natural.  Then allow the floodlight to handle that task while the spotlight is now free for you to use as necessary, which will eventually be –  not at all.

“Be free from all attachments like a rolling ball, when moving forward, moving backward, working, sitting, while possessing a stillness with the motion and a motion within the stillness.” H.S. Okazaki

  *The analogy of the spotlight and the floodlight comes from a lecture by Alan Watts titled Myth of Myself.

[juji-gatame]

Insane Deashi-harai!

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[guidedbygunpla]

Gundam Sports Story Chapter 2. Back Home in Tonosho

The scramjet landed as it always did, its giant parachutes opened up and the last few G’s were decelerated out of the giant titanium bird. Catalyst and Ryu were escorted to their car, and started on the long drive out from the airport.

               “you know, I think it’d be better for Ohm if we moved to the city, he’d have more kids his own age, out here in Kagawa its all senior citizens and college kids, no one lives here anymore.” Ryu said as he motioned around them taking his hands off the wheel briefly.  “out here, im worried aside from video chats with his online friends, he wont really….you know, have any friends”

               “I didn’t really have any friends when I was growing up, I turned out fine” Cat said, her head resting on the cool glass of the window. Watching the sun as it set on the bay

               “oh I’m sure that isn’t true Cat, I’m sure you had friends when you were a little girl”

               “no I’m sure I’ve told you before, there were hardly any kids on Moore, it was a business side, so it was mostly young men and women just getting their careers growing, so I was always 5 years older or 5 years younger than almost everyone, there were only like 10 or so kids in most of my classes all through school…never really liked any of them. That’s why I moved to  Hatte after grade school, I wanted to go to college with people my own age, I didn’t have many friends until that point.”

               “well that’s exactly my point, don’t you think Ohm deserves that? You know, to grow up with kids his own age.”

               she looked behind her, as ohm layed across the back seat, covering up with his coat like a big blanket.

               “yea, I suppose…..but I don’t want to move away from your parents, they love getting to come see ohm when we’re on break, or after big matches….I think it does them good” she said looking back out the window as the bay disappeared behind a sea of trees and old homes.

               “Cat, is this a depression thing…you know I don’t want to pry” Ryu said setting a hand on Catalysts leg.

               “maybe, I think its just I don’t want to live someplace that exposed…I like being able to just live here, I don’t feel like a celebrity you know. I mean everyone here knows me, but they aren’t stopping to ask for my autograph or anything, just asking how you and Ohm are, I hate being watched now….it makes me feel like I’m back out in the Sides….I always felt like someone was watching me out there.”

her eyes seemed to stare off, past everything around them

               “I know Cat, you’ve told me before, the giant windows made it seem like someone even miles away could see you, that’s one of the reasons you liked working as a book keeper, you didn’t really have to be around anyone”

               “it kept the noise down” Cat said, her voice a bit toneless

               “I know, you always say the newtype thing can get overwhelming, you always thought it was just anxiety when you were a kid” Ryu said, their car cruising into their drive way, their garage door slowly rolling up “Cat we can talk more about this once the season starts to wind down, but I really think we should talk about getting Ohm at least into a school district where he would be able to make some friends”

               cat just nodded, she got out of the car and grabbed her duffle bag from the trunk and walked inside their home. Ryu woke up Ohm and walked him up to bed. Their home wasn’t fancy, it wasn’t spacious. Sure they could afford a nicer house. But They liked living a smaller life, living on the run during and after the war made them learn a lot about what they wanted in life, and it wasn’t stuff, it wasn’t things, it was eachother. And it was Ohm.

               Ryu got Ohm into his pajamas and into bed. After a while he walked into the room, as Cat slowly worked herself in and out of sleep, her muscles ached, and her head was a storm. The last few matches were just qualifying bouts, a formality to see who in the Japanese League would represent Japan in  the Grand Prix, but the fighters were hungry, and many more then usual were Newtype expressive this year, maybe not full Newtype, but they were expressing some base characteristics, heightened awareness, auras, intrusive thoughts. It was exhausting. Catalyst grew up thinking a lot of her intrusive thoughts and fears were just anxiety or depression, but what it turned out to be was she was able to hear more passionate thoughts from those around her, and feel the auras press out from people experiencing strong emotions. A common expression of Newtype abilities, it wasn’t until she was put under the life or death event that was the Moore colony incident that her real powers, the foreknowledge, seeing things happen before they do and being able to react in kind, and the physical 6th sense where she could feel the movements of others who have habited a space before and follow them. She hated the thought that this year she might have to face newtypes with similar abilities, up until now, aside from a few of them with foreknowledge or the one kid from the Oceanian Union who could telepathically yell at her and project images into her thoughts, she had a pretty easy time of it….she hoped this year would go as smoothly.

               “everything okay Cat?…you look stressed” Ryu spoke, softly as he climbed into bed alongside her. She smiled up at him

               “no, I’m alright, just thinking about work”

               “works over, home time.” He said kissing her on the top of her head

She sat in the flight simulator that sat in the corner of her garage, watching computer generated images move around her as Tenneth spoke through her headset.

Ryu was old fashioned in a lot of ways, Cat liked that, it reminded her of her grandparents, who were the first generation to be shipped out to the sides. Ryu grew up on earth, and as such didn’t seem to possess any Newtype abilities, and didn’t seem to put off any aura or even intrusive thoughts. That was one of the things Cat loved about him, when she met him he was one of the first people in her life who didn’t express even a tiny bit of psychic energy. She couldn’t read his emotions through anything but her eyes.  And neither could he, but he could read her like a book some nights. Cat snuggled up to Ryu and drifted off to sleep.

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               “come on Cat, let that anger out, you’re getting too clouded. Remember, don’t think, act. If you want to avoid having a Newtype spring some mind game trap on you, we need you to ignore all those intrusive thoughts and all the noise up there, and just hit them.” Catalyst used the small thumb stick on the right flightstick to cycle through her combat maneuvers, and select the appropriate ones as the situation called for them, with the most common ones mapped to her primary triggers on the left and right and the two thumb buttons on either side of the thumb stick. A simple block here, a windmill block there, cycle through the menu, Judo Transition, Kata Ha Jime hold, followed by punching the opponents camera out. Battle reset, the simulated mental noise being piped into her earphones increased in volume as it did so. Another round of simple block, windmill block, menu cycle, scarf lock, opponent reverses, Kata Gatame to reverse said reversal, elbow drop to back of head. Combat resets, volume increases, opponent moving faster. Windmill block, opponent has a heat hawk, windmill block again, axe swinging in, opponent moving very fast, Deashi  Harai throw, opponent is briefly stunned, Uki gatame hold, try to wrestle away the heat hawk, heat hawk secured. Opponent punches the cockpit of the GM, the first one catches her of guard, the second causes the combat alarm to sound, ending the match.

                 “you alright Cat…didn’t want to over stimulate you, but figured throwing a few faster ones in there wouldn’t offset you that much” Tenneth spoke as he walked into the garage, turning the lights on as he did so.

  she wasn’t paying attention to his hand once the heat hawk was freed.

simulation ended, the noise finally stops

               Cat took the earphones out and sat back in her seat.

               “no…Ten I think I messed up…I’ve been worrying since last night about whats going to happen if another Newtype on my level actually makes it into the Grand Prix this year, theres a lot of lower rank fighters I’ve gotten paired up with during these qualifying matches who have some abilities, what if someone on my level shows up, who can really throw me off my game” Tenneth sat down in the chair facing the simulated pilot seat itself and handed her, her water bottle.

               “well Cat, that’s a good question….I mean intrusive thoughts and that one Aussie who could telegraph stuff at you were bad enough, that’s why we added them to the training routine”

               “telepath” she said

               “im sorry?”

               “the Oceanian Union fighter who used the Gray Efreet with the twin heat hawks, he was a Telepath”

               “ah right, sends words an pictures into your head, that’s what I said.” Tenneth stuttered “I mean is there a lot worse than that?...when you say someone on your level, you gotta remember I’m not entirely sure what that entails”

               “well I know some of them can cause low level visual hallucinations, like, in Terra Stormriders book, War and Humanities place in it, she talks about weaponizing  Newtypes, I guess one of the ones she fought during the war was able to make it seem like she was running through a field with them, as little girls, she said she felt like she was there for hours with her. Imagine if I got in a match and some jag puts me in a submission hold and then transports me to some psychic day dream while I accidently tap out or what have you…..how would I even combat that.”

               “well…I mean I could see about finding some Newtype pilot, I know a few from the service, I  could call one of them,set up a few test matches with him, we could do the fight in the fukushima exclusion zone, wouldn’t have to worry about helicopters or anything, you and them could work through some counter Newtype techniques, try and figure out some solutions to deal with whatever happens.”

               Cat took the straw to her waterbottle out of her mouth and thought for a moment “well…I mean the worst that could happen is theres another Newtype out there who might end up in the Grand Prix who would know said counter Newtype techniques….guess it’s better then going into a Newtype V Newtype fight blind. Got anyone in mind?”

               “I’ve got just the guy, he was the Feddie Airforces Ace of Aces, took down over 100 dopps, and even took out a gow carrier single handedly. All with a saberfish, if memory serves, he’s started fighting on the Brazillian circuit” Tenneth said pulling up his MSMMAA stat chart on his tablet. Handing it to Catalyst after he had done so.

               “he’s doing pretty well in qualifying, so who knows if he’ll make it to the Prix or not, but he looks like he might make it in. whats he piloting for his qualifying matches? He have a corporate sponsor?” Cat said finishing the last of her water

               “right now he’s got a Feddier surplus Zaku, was being used as a test suit in Oceania, near the Sydney ruins, but guessing he bought it off em, or stole it, or won it who knows. been using that, guess he modded the mocap computer, added some basic krav maga and what not into it, nothing too fancy with the zakus limited range of movement of course.  guess hes doing pretty well for himself out there in Brazil…no listed corporate sponsors though. I could call Canon up, ask to barrow the Madea and have him and his team flown over. Set up some fake photo shoot somewhere, get all the mobile suit paparazzi away from the fukushima zone, so no one will be any the wiser.”

cat handed the tablet back to Tenneth

               “and we’re sure hes full Newtype, not just expressive?” she asked

               “that’s what interviews with him will have you believe, no specifics on how his manifests, but from what he says about it, it sounds like hes pretty powerful. Foreknowledge, projection the works. Must be how hes moving up the ranks so quick.”

               “wonder why he left the federation? Said on there he had been promoted to captain” Cat asked as she leaned forward and started to log out of the simulatior

               “donno, maybe there really is just that much more money to be made in the fighting pit than in a fighter jet.

[angwe-blog]

Thank you, again, to Sensei Grace (@gracetalusan and @kokushimidwestjudo), Sensei Doug (@tokhonjudo), and Sensei Megumi Ishikawa (Greetings from the University of Chicago!) for a great practice with #cardio #ShadowUchikomi and a nice #AshiWaza #combo with deashi-osoto from either side! #workout #judo #SocialDistancingJudo #UChicago (at La Grange, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAZJSPFn47z/?igshid=ousflpu0luhi

[jtstrainingblog]

17AUG23 No actual testing today- instead I worked on pushing the material hard. I am not following the regular stand-up/ throwing schedule right now because I just need time to get through all of the material that is there for advancement. In short, we are bearing down hard on this stuff that has been on the back burner for a while. Also, I gave blood today, so it was a very low-key session for me physically.

Training:

1730-1930: Martial arts

Tedori jujitsu- Orange belt Tips 1-4, Review for deashi harai and sasae ashi

[train-go]

I seems that your main cup of tea is karate, but do you have a favorite takedown, or a takedown that seems really appealing. For me, my favorite is the drop seoi nage

**DISCLAIMER**: these are pretty poopy, simplified scribbles meant to give peeps the general gist of a couple of my favourite takedowns .

Haaaay Anony! Yisssirrr i do have some favourite takedowns (and i am ALSO a fan of the drop seoi nage!! *HIGH FIVES*). I’m not 100% on all variations of karate, but we do have our own set of nage no kata and do a fair bit of takes downs (but not near enough grappling ◞‸◟；   )

I’m not especially strong, so takedowns with smooth, circular motions are more my thing. Since there is lots of deashi barai (foot sweeps) in my style most of our takedowns incorporate that to go with the punching/linear movement. We also have a set of wrist escapes that also involve some very fluid, no tom foolery takedowns that i particularly enjoy :3What a delightful question!! Thanks for the ask!! （*´▽｀*）