u/Umil33

Got thrown in randori with a super hard ippon seoi nage by a strong brown belt. The landing was fine, but somehow, in the process of getting loaded onto tori's shoulder, I sprained my rotator cuff pretty hard.

I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else, and how to potentially avoid it in the future?

I've gotten thrown with seoi nage at least a hundred times and never felt anything in my shoulder until now, and I'm wondering if I did something wrong somehow. (I don't ascribe any maliciousness to the brown belt guy, but I suppose he could've been at fault too).

I'll be out of the game for at least 3 to 4 weeks, so I'm pretty bummed out.

29 year old, 6 month experience yellow belt here (training about 3x a week). I just finished competing in my first two tournaments, lost twice in the first one, and won 1 out of my 3 matches by waza-ari in my second one.

I'm realizing that shiai feels very different compared to randori, and I was struggling to throw even a (I think) pretty inexperienced white belt.

I'm pretty tall, so ashi-waza is advantageous for me, and I've been thinking about just trying to refine my ouchi gari, uchi mata, and o soto gari in randori going forward, so that I have at least a few proficient throws for future competitions (uchi mata being the only throw I've scored with)

I'm just wondering if it's too early to start focusing on getting good at specific throws, instead of experimenting with everything? (Which is what I've been doing, though, even with being really flexible, I still struggle to get low enough to throw with koshi-waza in randori, since I'm usually a head taller than most of my training partners)

I guess I feel like, having spread myself pretty thin and regularly trying out most techniques in randori, I don't really have a single good throw that I can hit on someone who really doesn't wanna get thrown.

Any thoughts?