Combat Stick Defense

Worked on blending and carry-over with a stick attack.

From a Yokoman strike your arm on the side of the stick attack goes to their arm and is placed on the inside of their forearm while your other arm sweeps up under their elbow and carries the attack over into a Sankyo or other tech.  It's important to catch the Yokoman strike before it build too much momentum, as well as not stopping its trajectory, rather redirecting it up and over with your outer forearm to allow their momentum to carry them through and you lock them up in the Sankyo.

From Shomanuchi with sticks you put your arm on the cross side (right arm for a right arm strike) as a wedge straight up with a bit of an angle to allow the strike to slide across your arm and past you.  As it slides you Tenkan around and put your other arm as it comes around and slide it down their forearm until you reach their wrist and secure the Kotagaeshi grip.  Once you get this grip then you Tenkan again around their wrist and apply the Kotagaeshi lock.

With randori today I was still a bit excitable and sped up when the attacks were approaching me rather than staying relaxed and moving with them.  This got me a bit out of breath and prevented me from staying soft in my techniques and being rigid.  I remembered to move with Tenkans backwards which helped a bit but still tired out from doing too many speed bursts and loosing my cool.  Need to work on this more.