Day 3

A good throw is hard to explain. That's what we practiced yesterday. A slight change in the angle or position of either arm or hand weakens it a lot. Then there's the footwork. No footwork? No throw. This being the case, most of the class was spent trying to flip each other.

My partner and I got to a point where we were comfortable that we could do it well, so we started trying counter moves. Then counter's to the counter moves. In doing this, we learned that the counter to a counter is basically having everything correct to begin with. As I said before, the differences are very subtle, but extraordinarily important.

It was a good wrap-up for the week.