First American World Judo Champion.
You might know Dr. Ann-Maria Rousey DeMars as the mother of Olympic judo bronze medalist (Beijing 2008) and current MMA star Ronda Rousey, but long before Ronda ever put on a gi her mother became the first American to win a world judo championship (Vienna 1984). Dr. DeMars is still involved in judo – she teaches a kid’s class in Los Angeles and has a book on ne-waza coming out soon.
Her latest blog post is about escape from kesa-gatame. We’ve been covering this lately in class, it’s worth a read. The short version: it’s hard to escape from kesa-gatame once it’s been fully locked in (the BJJ guys I work out with have been discovering this 😀 ), so your escape should start before you reach that point. Yes, that’s right: the best way to get out of kesa-gatame is don’t get put in kesa-gatame in the first place. Read the whole post here: Teaching Escapes from Pins.
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I do consider all of the ideas you’ve introduced for your post.
They are very convincing and will certainly work.
Nonetheless, the posts are very short for novices.
Could you please prolong them a bit from next time? Thank you for the post.
Sure thing, will do!