Video 61: Double Sleeve Sode
When a video game is conquered, sometimes extra content is unlocked for another playthrough. Well, congratulations and welcome to Ronda Rousey’s “Judo Time” New Game+ mode. If you thought the first 60 lessons were the end of the adventure, you thought wrong. Learn this double sleeve sode technique to help you along your journey.
Here are the main things:
1. Hands to the outside and lean on it.
When you grow up, you’ll use a more intricate sode tsuri komi goshi, but for now, this is the best way to learn. Reach into your mental inventory (or our judo database) and access the double sleeve grip stored inside your arsenal. Use it!
2. Push down to create upward reaction.
Let the mental warfare begin. With a handful of gi, shove your arms down which is going to cause the opponent/uke to resist and push up against your grip. That’s exactly what you want.
3. Big toe to big toe.
Really put some bass into the hold with a good lunge and a properly-aligned stance. Literally, go toe-to-toe… even if you just got a pedicure and the perfect color on your nails.
4. Sleeve hand: Up/across. Far leg: Across/bend.
When they fall completely for your trap (haha, sucker), use their momentum on the push up to step in and across with your back leg. Make sure you don’t let any sleeve go! You should be facing the opposite way, wrists secured, and ready to throw.
5. Pull hand: Locks in. Left hand: Locks down.
Back that thing up underneath the hips. One arm should be tucked under your pit, the other overhead and lowered over the shoulder, both get locked down. One step away from ippon.
6. Stand up, lift opponent, bend down and to the left.
The next part is something you’ve done hundreds of times. Or well, at least 60. With the arms collected and your center of gravity underneath their hips, just stand up and whip that sode boy.
Tuck that head and roll with the throw. Then, you can go ahead and roll right on to the wrist-to-wrist
Take your perfect toenails onward to the wrist-to-wrist sode.