Weight: 243.5
Jujitsu today with a lot of interesting and different things going on. We lead off with an old standby that Jigoro Kano called Osoto Gari. Except as a counter to a roundhouse punch after an outblock. We then moved to a variant counter from the same attack called Ouchi Gari with a low sweep at the calf/shin level rather than the way judo teaches it. Funny, because it was one of the adaptations of judo I learned to make as a young cop to avoid getting my own ass kicked.
Then we worked on a bar arm takedown from a right straight punch. The defender steps left and deflects down and circular across the attacker's body line with the right hand in a palm up sweep from left to right. The right arm then returns up and across the upper sternum or neck palm down as the hips rotate back counter clockwise. Pretty much what football calls a clothesline because it takes the head back over the heels. If that doesn't do the job the left hand comes around to deliver a palm heel strike to the attacker's lower right side back just above the pelvis. Down like a stack of blocks.
We also worked a straight punch counter with the same kind of block as above transitioning to a wrist grip with the right hand and a neck or shoulder grip with the left hand pulling back. At the same time the defender's right hand takes the attacker's right hand out of it's linear configuration and back and downward in a circular counter. This levers the whole spine into misalignment and the stack of blocks we call the human body collapses again in an ungraceful heap.
Professor Helms, high ranking in our own art and even higher in Okinawa te had us working striking drills at the end. He had another black belt hold up focus pads and had us use an open handed "slap" strike. After a few smacks he stopped me and told me loosen up my shoulders. He said like him, I had worshiped the Iron Gods too much and needed to overcome that devotion. Lots of laughs from all including me. I love this guy. He's a retired LAPD Lt. (SIS) who has had to take some really bad people out permanently during his 30+ year career. He's about a year older than me and roughly the same size right down to the graying cop mustache. However he is a real bad ass but a great guy. He demonstrated the strike on my left shoulder and the shock wave traveled past my sternum to my right shoulder. Then he said that retaliation would be considered elder abuse. Until I reminded him I was over 60 and almost the same age he was. More laughs. Great day.