Week of February 27th 2012

MT - Worked the orange sash combos with Mike P.
mitts 1,2,1,2,step, 2, sweep w/ left leg, 2 left knees
1,2,1,2,slip, step left, 3, chopping right leg to top of knee, 2 right knees
pads hard shots
1,2,5,2, 3x lft kick, check, 2x left kick (teep for fun)
1,2,5,2,3, 3x rt kick, check, 2x rt kick (teep)

Overheard my coach (Paul) discussing with big Mike how I was improving. I wasn't paying close attention to them, but it sounded like favorable comments. Something about "It's the engineer in him, trying to perfect every move..." something like that. Made my happy that I've stuck with it.

BJJ - Bottom side control - if you can't get a knee in for recomposing, get underhook on near side, get to side, grab single leg, get to knees, get double if you can, drive for takedown, pass to side control.

top side control - if you feel bottom guy going for above pass, switch base to face his hips, keep bottom leg against his hips, move arm to over body to pin hips on that side, look for kimura or straight arm bar, or reset to side control.

guard pass - pin arm on mat, drop head to either arm pit, push pinned arm under hips and grab with other hand under hips. Posture and stand, contorting opponent. Use free hand to pop open guard, retain hand and do a knee slide pass as you come down

Thursday BJJ:
Man, I did NOT want to train yesterday. Beat up and sore from the other days of training. I wanted to leave about 1/2 way through the drilling. I stuck it out and this morning I'm stoked that I went.

worked basic kimuras

straight arm bars - dive your far arm deep under armpit as you bring your body/head to the attacked arm, pinch arm between shoulder and head as you clasp hands and straighten arm. Hip escape to get far knee heavy on his head/shoulder. Find the elbow joint and attack

setup for 4x attack (4 that I know) - grab wrist, tug it down to mat or stuff it under your hips while bringing that foot onto hip, locking arm down. Put other knee inside other arm. Hip escape and get 'other knee' leg out and over to lock a triangle guard. Option exists for kimura, straight arm lock, triangle, omaplata, regular arm bar, and on...

Standing guard pass - If his feet are on your hips, get a cross grip on the outside of his ankle, step back and throw leg across body, don't drop leg, collapse into side control.


We got a new 2 stripe white belt. He's been going on and off for a year, bjj only. I was glad to see I could nullify most of his attacks, and I passed his guard a few times. One time very deliberately. I imposed my game on him. It's cool to see someone from a different school with a different game. I took his back, took mount, and did pretty well getting into positions. He likes to work chokes, which is nice, since we seem to mostly work joint locks and chokes that work NoGi as well. This is a result of our coaches being MMA guys, so they tend to teach useful moves for their game. Which I really like actually, since this is sort of where this is all headed for me. I rolled hard, got tapped a bunch, nullified a bunch of passes, kept active. I think I did well even though I probably came out on the losing end most of the time. I gave up a good deep arm in guillotine after Jr. pulled and struggled. I just sort of got frustrated, and should have gutted it out and kept fishing for it. I also missed an omaplata off of a triangle that big Mike was defending by burying his arm around my waist. That won't happen again... I was sitting there, looking at his arm wrapped around me and remember thinking... "I KNOW there's something I can do from here, but I can't remember what it is..." Oh well. Good training...

Thursday was another great day of jits. Drilled for a while, then we worked open guard drilling. I was able to get an arm triangle, a near arm bar from knee on belly (this one is good...), and some other stuff. Jeff is back and it's good to see him.

Had to cancel with Conwict for some training tomorrow, hopefully we can get together Sunday and work some SIRT stuff. Will add more on Thursday for next BJJ class.

Ran 3 miles friday w/ dogs. Running is getting easier... :)