Yup, it certainly was difficult for that very reason --- but fun too. And on the other side of it, as uke, I had to resort to things like jumping onto nage to try to tackle him down. Of course, unless they were brought down somewhat already, this only resulted in my being flung about. In any case, the whole exercise really put things into perspective, by contrasting the chaos of a realistic attack with the contrived order and simplicity of the ones we are accustomed to responding to in class.

Although I haven't tried it I think it would be a difficult thing for me to defend against an attack without useing at least some of what I have been training to do for the past 2 years. I'd probably resort to my old Judo techniques. Does that count? Especially if their parent art was the same. If that wasn't allowed I would just use my size and do the Incredibal Hulk thing. I'll even turn green.