Some Judo Newaza Drills

Here are some of the Newaza drills that we practice in our club on the regular basis, and that we found useful both as a technical excercise, and as a warmup/agility drill for the ground work:

Continuous sweeps:

This drill develops stamina, and sweeping skills.

Tori is on his back, Uke is standing, huntched over. Tori grabs the Uke, pulls him down, and sweeps him over to the left by hooking his inner left thigh, and by kicking the right ankle/shin out. They continue this roll without stopping until fatigued.

Hands on Belt:

This drills develops use of legs in the ground game.

Tori is on his back. Uke is on the top, standing. Tori must keep his hands on the belt all the time,
and defend with his legs. Drills starts as Uke tries to secure the osaekomi(pin) from the top position. Uke has only legs to position himself, and to defend pin. When Uke secures the pin they switch positions. This drills is continued until fatigued.