Week of 10/8/12

Monday: "flow yoga". I continue to be humbled and made tired by yoga. This was the last class of my 4class package. I had different instructors each time for this short yoga experiment. It was good to get varied approaches to teaching and to how to describe the positions. I'm going to visit paul soon and take a hot yoga class.

Tuesday: Gi:
arm bar practice.

Sweep off of this attempt:
flower sweep. The key is pulling his weight on top of you. If he's lighter, use your leg underhook to pull him on top. If he's heavier, bring yourself to him, and get under him to break his base. The leg that's across his back is used to off balance him. Attack for the arm bar a few times, if he defends or locks his arms up, then use the leg that would pass over to kick out, and go out and under with that free leg. Chopping his base while lifting his base on the underhook side. End up in mount. If you keep the arm, then go straight to the mounted arm bar.

Good rolls. I just got done listening to a Gracie talking about having fun and it really helped my mindset during the rolls. I'm debating doing NAGA, but it's coming December 1. Not sure if I'm going to sign up or not. That's $100 I don't have to spend.

Jamal did an awesome job coaching us tonight. Great details and explanation of WHY we were doing stuff. Framework stuff. This is a welcome refresher. Raph is in Brazil for 2 weeks. I'm stoked that Jamal is teaching.

I pulled off a few cool sweeps that I've been studying (tripod sweep), and a choke from the mount (sort of a neck crank front naked choke thing). As usual, G was aggressive and kept ending up on top. He was yanking his arms out of my attacks. I need to keep tighter when I'm attacking. I survived pretty well against Ron and Jamal, stalling their submissions. The arm bar stall works really well. basically you hide your arm behind your arm as if you were doing a RNC.

Wednesday: MT
Good workout, good sparring. evade technique

Thursday:
armbars from mount
variation 1: cross hands around arm, post on chest, swipe leg around head while falling back into arm bar.
variation 2: get high mount, trap arm, use other hand to post off of face, go to S-Mount, swing leg round
variation 3: get high mount, trap arm, post off face, shift weight back onto his ribs, swing leg around, then fall back into arm bar.

Friday:
Deadlifts 5x5
kb warmup, jump rope 3:00, dl 120x12
220,270,270,270,300 x 5 3 minutes rest minimum between sets