Have you ever been locked down in Morotedori?
Have you ever been locked down in Morotedori? (In Japan we call it ryote mochi — two hands grabbing one wrist.) It’s the kind of grip that can stop the whole moment and leave you hunting for timing.
In today’s lesson I show a simple sequence to absorb that pressure into your center, then deflect it upward so your partner’s center rises and Kokyunage becomes available again. The quality of first contact matters: Nage (or Tori) must stay loose so energy keeps moving — otherwise the moment freezes and the technique becomes impossible.
About halfway through the video we scale the single-attack drill into a two-person attack progression — that part always gets participants excited and is a great way to test timing under pressure. If you watched last week’s Morotedori Shihonage, this builds on that work; if not, you can still start here.
Let’s check it out.
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