#10 – 50 runs in 100 days – No excuses edition

Tonite it was time again for Newaza (judo wrestling).

It feels good to be back again, this Fall I was not there so much due to a lot of running on Saturdays outside of town.

Started with warmup, running around the mat, unknown distance.

Regular running, then sideways, backwards, kick in the butt and then intervals I am used to longer ones these days so it was intense. First regular, then backwards, sideways on both sides.

It was nice to see some old new familiar face like Emma, Andreas and Roger. Emmas started to like soccer and I have not seen her on the judo mat in a while. Hope to see them some more.

When I wrestled with Roger I noticed that I handled my neck much better and was moving around a lot which felt positive. I am wondering if Yoga might have something to do with it. I have had bad neck experience, don’t worry, not injured but have not been following correctly when I have been thrown to the side. Very nice experience.

It was also a good experience to found out that one person had borrowed a belt so I thought that he was more experienced, lucky me he was honest. I let him show me what he knew instead of going into a wrestling with him.

Newaza is a good way of starting the weekend.

#7 – 50 runs in 100 days – No excuses edition

Tonite it was time again for some Newaza.

First we were running around the mat, unknown distance,  and then we did some somersault and one of my favorite exercises, the shrimp and then it forward.

Then it was time for some judo wrestling where I fought against a youth and then the instructor Göran again. He is sneaky, he lets you think you have the advantage and bam. It is not good to be a long distance runner and do judo and then Newaza is not as bad as standing. But I have a goal that I one day will get him in retaining and he cannot move.

The red thread this semester is strangulation and the youth that I am working with today strangled me, that was big. He was relaxed today. I had some problems but Daniel, his dad explained very carefully

At the end I fought against another youth that is good to work with.

#3 – 50 runs in 100 days – No excuses edition

Tonite it was time again for Newaza (judo wrestling).

Last week we were 15 judokas and tonite we were 17 judokas, a good mix of people.

I got the opportunity to first do judo with a kid and it is always special but it is also a good experience.

We tried to do a exercise where we are standing back to back and do knee bend. Oh boy, that was tough when you do not have the same length, one is way much shorter than yourself.

First fight was with the instructor and he is good, he lets you enter the restraint (fasthållning) and you think you have it and then it does not take long til he locks me down or if you do not watch out he makes the move. He was on his way to strangle me and I immediately made sure I had air but if I let go I would lose but I was also locked and tried to move and then he asked Do you have a plan? One day I will defeat him.

Warmup was running around the mat, unknown distance,  somersaultsand sit ups