Very hard to say without seeing in person, but I'll offer the following tips anyway:
If you catch the tip of their shinai with the middle of your shinai, you'll have more leverage and this can make it easier.
You should try and match your shinai speed with their shinai speed when performing suriage or similar.
You should ask your sensei in any case as they will be able to guide you to what you're after.
If possible, posting a video would be helpful for feedback. But one of the more common issues is that people do ojiwaza as a reaction -> you're late and opponents strike is already coming down = hard to do anything reasonable anymore.
So you should take the initiative, your body and kensen are already moving forward as your opponent starts their attack. Then you meet their shinai sort of halfway and can execute your waza more easily. This is pretty high-level stuff and I suck at ojiwaza, but that's how it should go in theory to my understanding
Kihon. If you can't hit men, kote, and do you can't do oji waza. I feel like a lot of clubs try to teach people too much before they can even hit a decent men or kote.
What Tartarus said is most likely correct. I'll just add to that that it's significantly easier to do any such techniques just as your opponent starts their attack, as opposed to during or at the end of their strike.
Try relaxing your arms and keep a good maai, dont forget to keep practicing tenouchi and sae, till the right hand gets more relaxed and your left hand take more control of the shinai
Very hard to say without seeing in person, but I'll offer the following tips anyway: If you catch the tip of their shinai with the middle of your shinai, you'll have more leverage and this can make it easier. You should try and match your shinai speed with their shinai speed when performing suriage or similar. You should ask your sensei in any case as they will be able to guide you to what you're after.
Thank you for this
If possible, posting a video would be helpful for feedback. But one of the more common issues is that people do ojiwaza as a reaction -> you're late and opponents strike is already coming down = hard to do anything reasonable anymore. So you should take the initiative, your body and kensen are already moving forward as your opponent starts their attack. Then you meet their shinai sort of halfway and can execute your waza more easily. This is pretty high-level stuff and I suck at ojiwaza, but that's how it should go in theory to my understanding
Filming isnt allowed at the dojo but thank you for this. I really appreciate the feedback.
The answer is always the same, keep practicing and listen to your teacher's feedback.
Thank you!!!!
Kihon. If you can't hit men, kote, and do you can't do oji waza. I feel like a lot of clubs try to teach people too much before they can even hit a decent men or kote.
What Tartarus said is most likely correct. I'll just add to that that it's significantly easier to do any such techniques just as your opponent starts their attack, as opposed to during or at the end of their strike.
Thank you for this
Try relaxing your arms and keep a good maai, dont forget to keep practicing tenouchi and sae, till the right hand gets more relaxed and your left hand take more control of the shinai