Turtle - Improving & Escaping

12/15 - Downtown

Fifth class of the week and felt pretty good. Good sized class today, around 8-10.

Turtle escapes:

Set-up:
You are turtled. Opponent is leaning against your right side, leg up. Their L arm is around your L side.

1. Pinch their L arm to you with your L arm. Kick your R leg out straight behind your opponent and sit back. Clothesline your opponent's chest with your L arm as you fall back. Face their hips and control them with your arms. Slide back toward their head with your L arm trapped behind you.

2. Pinch their L arm as above, reach your R arm across their back and grip their belt and roll to your L. You want to end up with your back on their back and their arm trapped. Gable grip hands together and lean back for the submission.

3. Assuming they are on their knees, reach over with your L hand, cup the outside of their R knee and drive to the R. Should end up in side-control. Don't remember what the R hand does, maybe behind their back?

Turtle improving position (same set-up as above, but you are on top to the L):

4. Take your L knee and push into their L leg, pull them back into you with your R hand on their hip.

5. If on #4 their weight is too well balanced and they can't be pulled, try to get your L hand into their R lapel, jump to the other side and pull them into you that way. If you can't your hand into their lapel, use your L hand on their hip instead.

6. If they are turtled and try to roll into you to move into guard, put your arm against the outside of their L leg as they roll, which should keep you out of their guard. May need to turn the corner a bit to move into side-control.

Did a two 2min rounds turtle escapes and improving. Worked with Antone on the techniques. He smoked me on the 4min of turtles Rolled with him first, and no surprise, he isolated an arm and tapped me with a crucifix or something like it. Rolled with a relatively new guy, got a couple of arm bars. Rolled with Colt and Derek. Decent rolls, all the guys were as tired as I was.

Manny's bday today, so five us rolled with him for a minute each. Good fun. :)