Monday: Holiday, gym closed, I relaxed and pigged out on chinese food and beer. Retained probably 6 lbs of water... :)
Tuesday: BJJ
Noone else showed up to jits, mostly due to some lingering injuries, holiday travel, etc.
So I got a private with Raph. We quickly drilled some armbars, both traditional and sneakier ones. Drilled a straight arm bar transition when the primary arm is pulled out.
We did a cool choke where you get a cross collar grip, then you drive off of his hips, sitting yourself up, and pulling his head forward and down, the cross grip should be under his chin. Your off hand can help make him look down. the off hand will then be used to go behind his neck and weaving inside of the cross collar grip arm's elbow. A scissoring motion makes a tight ass choke.
We also went over the straight ankle lock. Usually comes out of open guard, have to overwrap the foot/ankle, almost in a guillotine grip, while falling to the side that the ankle is trapped. make sure the wrist is behind the ankle, not the Achilles tendon, extend hips to finish lock. A solid tip is to hide the foot that's between his legs, so he doesn't lock you. Use that leg to get a hook on the attacked leg, or use your feet as hands to keep him off of your ankle while you set the lock up.
To defend this lock, pop up and stand on the attacked ankle, then sit and spin through to free up the leg. Usually is sort of a scramble.
If you're attack and the guy stands up, abandon the ankle lock and get an underhook on his outside foot. Push his other leg away, and lift w/ the underhook for a sweep as you stand up.
Raph had me working a conditioning circuit. dumbbell pushups w/ rows at the top, medicine ball situps, and swiss ball hip exercises, 1:00 each, w/ 3:00 of jump rope between. This circuit 3x.
Jamal was nice enough to roll with me after all of this. I was getting rolled up, but I was able to defend some arm bars and chokes pretty well.
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