In 9 months of training, you never did any randori? You never did grip fighting? The only matches in judo that start with opponents having their hands on each other is for blind people. Do you learn individual techniques from the position? Yes. If you were taught that free fighting(randori) starts from a grip, then your school sucked, not the art.
I'm going to guess you were a child when you trained judo. They tend to not teach chokes, strangles or armbars to little kiddies PS. where do you think the Mata de Leo (rear naked choke comes from? Or the triangle choke? Or just about any other choke in BJJ? With your extensive knowledge, you realize many sessions in BJJ begin with both partners on their knees?
I doubt he did any randori, sounds like he barely made it beyond white belt just getting into orange.
Definitely She will smoke that untrained man away like a dust... Lol
Even at that level, we did a bit of randori in my classes. In my case it wasn't with anything like real resistance, since I was the only new person in the classes at the time (the few other students had at least 2-3 years, as I recall).
I did randori starting basically day one. Got thrown on my *** over and over, but it was fun. I'd be surprised if you still haven't done randori 9 months in.
This is why a grappler likes to grab on his opponent's arm/arms. When his opponent moves back, his opponent will pull him forward. If he can adds in his own forward momentum, his forward movement can be faster than his opponent's backward retreat.
The wrestler's move out is different from the striker's move out. When you move in and try to throw your opponent backward, your opponent resists, you borrow his resistance force, use 3 points footwork to move out, and throw him forward. So in wrestling, the move out footwork is also attack.
A grappler may also wish to disengage if he doesn't like the position he's in. If the other guy's grip is limiting my choices, one option is to try to disengage entirely and re-enter.
Normal curriculum you would be doing it but I'm going odd of the knowledge he is presenting.
My plan is typically from neutral distance I close the distance using my kicks and punches to get into clinch distance, from clinch I want to bring them to the floor generally using throwing techniques.
It's very important to wrestle on day 1 for the following reasons:
Sorry, I should have been more specific. I was thinking Greco-Roman or Freestyle wrestling. Momentarily forgot about Catch or submission wrestling.
That's why I started out by discussing the tall fighter keeping range and the short fighter pressing inside. That would be the strikers equivalent to sitting on top of someone. There is a real striking advantage to keeping your opponent at the range where you can hit him, and he cannot hit you. If you are good with your footwork, you can keep that position all fight.
In another thread someone said, "a straight punch can defeat circular punch". I always believe it should be the other way around.
