Training week of Feb 8 2012

Monday- worked some MT. Worked our 'orange sash' combos. Did the same Wednesday.

Pad Combos - C1 - 1,1, 1, 2, 5, 2, 3x left kick, check left, 2x left kick
C2 1,1,1,2,5,2,3, 3x lk, check left, 2x lk
Mitt combo - 1,1,1,2,1,2, step, 2, sweep w/ left leg to offbalance, 2x L knees
1,1,1,2,1,2, slip, step left, 3, chopping right kick, 2x right knees

BJJ - worked 2 1/2 guard sweeps.
Key points: stay on side, don't get flat, avoid cross face, be small and get under him.

Underhook far leg w/ bottom arm, hip escape to get butterfly hook of top leg in, pull dude on top of you to take his base away, drive hooks away while lifting underhooked leg, sweep and end up on top, get to side. If needed, you can pull his basing arm out and force the sweep.

second variation : If you're getting a lot of cross face pressure and guy is glued to you, get a whizzer on overhooked arm to keep him from basing with that elbow, roll towards trapped elbow, end up in top half

Thoughts:

Muay Thai - Getting to spar with a guy who has an amateur MT fight coming up was fun and eye opening. He was a new training partner that Raphael was doing a private with. I hadn't trained with him before. He had a Wandi Fight team shirt on, and apparently is a cop who is travelling around training at famous gyms. I'm not sure if he was going easy on me or what, but I didn't feel overwhelmed by his strikes. I felt like I was able to keep my head and intelligently move and get some good licks on him. I'm noticing that I'm copying George Hickman's style (at least what he did against me) of keeping my jabbing hand sort of extended, with my shoulder up against my chin. I can monitor my opponents jabs, paw with my jab, and still have my right hand tucked tight to my chin to fire when needed. I'm working on evading and checking kicks and not taking a lot of body kicks.

Jits - I'm finding that after 13 months of jits, I have a shorter learning curve when learning/ understanding new moves. I'm starting to see where base is, and what angles are important to attack. I still suck, and regularly get flattened by our blue belt, but I'm starting to understand it. I had a successful pass on him, and survive his attacks a lot better. Not sure why, but I seem to have made a quantum leap in skill. I still get the feeling that I want to quit sometime near the end of each class. But I fight through.