Morote-seoi-nage can be a difficult throw for beginners to learn–even dangerous–for if the hand you are using to grip the collar gets parallel with your own shoulders, you can damage your own shoulder as you throw…much like what happens during an americana-ude garami.
The trick is to keep your hand in front of you. If you feel pain in your wrist or shoulder, you are throwing incorrectly. You should cease immediately and seek technical correction. The standard principle is: Throwing should never cause pain and-or injury to the one throwing.
Madison drills Morote-seoi-nage individually, then integrates it into the circle of throws later. That the principle of integration can be used in the practice of judo points to the systemic nature of the art. The student must look for logical connectivity from one move to another. No true judo technique is without connection to some other judo move. Although a judo technique can be isolated and trained individually, as here with Morote-seoi-nage, one must seek to understand how such a move connects to hold-downs, to submission, to posture, to walking, to breakfall, and so on.
Now, consider again the present video on basic Morote-seoi-nage. Notice how Madison touches her chin with the palm of her hand that is gripping her partner’s lapel. This one detail helps to keep her right hand in front of her chest. Each throw is itself a system of technical points, which work together to throw your opponent. Hence, judo is a body of knowledge that can be studied and taught. Enjoy your study, my friends!
2018-02-27 13:48:20