Weight: 242.5
Jujitsu last with the kid's class had some promotions with particularly notable one. One of the older girls got promoted to purple belt, the first one I've seen since I've been at the dojo. She's a great kid and works hard and diligently at perfecting her technique. She actually cried once when I made a minor correction to a technique she did, and it took me aback. But then she is very serious about this art.
The adult class had us working on some O-soto Gari variants with a reverse step in and an extended leg position that you end up with a lot in judo when the other guys moves the wrong way when you go in. You step in with the right foot and hook around the calf. Then you hop in and stamp the right foot bringing the other guy down. We did another variant where the attacker reaches for you or pushes at you. You deflect it cross handed with the right step then bring that same hand up to side of the head as your left encircles their right hand and you execute the throw the same way. This lead to some discussion with the purple belts I was working with about entries for other kinds of attacks. Something judo doesn't teach at all for competition. Like a roundhouse that you do a left out block with and then throw your right arm and shoulder at the attacker with the arm going over his trap and neck hard in something like a head butt move. Your leftarm encircles his right and it's a very hard throw. Also if done with a little finesse, the right arm and shoulder move won't get you warned or tossed in judo tournament. You just have lead with the shoulder and make sure only the inside of the arm connects. My preferred finish for this is to follow them down on one knee and grab the trachea further slamming the head on the ground without committing to a hard wrap up that you can't get up from fast.
We also did some foot taps to root our stance to show how it cements you firmly to the ground. The newbies were amazed by this. I've found some of the coaching methods used at the Seminar I already do when I paid attention to them last night. But not always. Some people are so far out of whack with a multi-move complex technique it takes some more dialog and now and then even taking hold of an elbow to guide them in the right arc of movement. My knee brace and the scabs on my shin excited some comment as we took off our gi's at the end.