Tuesday, August 21, 2012

week of 8/20/12

pads: 1, 2, 2lk, cross block, 2lk
1,2,3, 2rk, cross block, 2rk



mitts: 1,2,slip,4,3,2, lft body shot

1,2,slip, slap, 5, 2, 3, rt body, left body




good sparring. Marcell likes to make it an mma fight without telling me... We clinched and he tripped me and followed me down and kept punching. It was good fun.




From D.G. from a class taught about 2 months ago w/ a guest instructor:

"-Taking the Back (1st Variation)

Starting Position: Place the right leg adjacent to the already turtled opponents right leg and then putting your left foot on the other side of his left ankle, basically resting on your right leg




Beginning Steps: Move your left arm around the back and grab the left lapel low enough to keep your elbow tight to your own body and pull back to lock the grip. Also grip the opponents right elbow with your right hand.




Crucial Move: Move your right knee next to their right ankle cocking your right foot outwards at the 3 o'clock position. Pull your opponent back towards you at a diagonal angle and release the elbow to go for their neck, they will defend the neck and at that point it allows you to put in your left foot hook.




Finishing Move: Roll to your left and put in your other hook all the while holding on the over under neck position. Finally rotate your right knee out and go back to the other side to finish the traditional collar choke from the back.




Very technical




-Taking the back (2nd Variation)

Same Starting Position




Beginning Steps: Move left arm around the back and grab the RIGHT lapel. If the person is turtled well you will need to open up yours and their right knee making a space between their tricep and ribs.




Crucial Move: Now you must target that hole made and reach into it with your hand followed by your head rolling forward




Finishing Move: Achieve side control by using your right hand to grab their left hand sleeve so that they cannot shrimp or escape and take side control.




Extremely technical, I found it easier to accomplish after practice but it is a move I would never have thought of at all. "




Tuesday: BJJ: worked on open guard passing, torreando and some other one. Mostly it was about rolling to recover guard. If you get juked out on a leg pass, and he's behind you pinning your legs, hip escape towards the side hes coming to, making space so you can duck your head where your hips are and roll, inverting and resetting the guard. Or you can do a 1/2 roll where you roll away to post, then swing your legs WIDE and high to re-engage him."

Tuesday/Thursday: BJJ worked the lasso hook and a few sweeps from there, as well as some transitions into omaplatas and triangles and armbars. The granby roll was taught as well. As the guy goes to pass, if he starts to get to your back, hip escape, and roll under yourself to recompose. This is a super useful skill for me. Lots of drilling. Scissor sweeps, defense of scissor sweep, attacking the posted arm w/ kimuras, omaplatas. Omaplata sweeps and transitions to mount from the position. Lots of good movement transitions. 

Good rolling.

Saturday; NOGI: Worked open guard. Rolling was good. I stayed in the center for quite a while. My open guard is getting  better. I did the granby roll, finished a choke or 2, took the back... I'm seeing my improvements. I'm in one of those improvement cycles. I hope it lasts a long time before I go back into a plateau.

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