Grip Fighting & Takedowns

1/2 - Downtown

First class of the new year, and I get the vibe that we are well into comp mode. Was good to have three days off from training, especially after the double-header on Saturday. Went over grip fighting from standing and transitioning into take-downs from there. I couldn't more awkward at this.

Lapel Grip Breaks
1. Grip on either side of their sleeve, and snap their arm down and away from you as your round  your back.

2. One hand under theirs, blade of your wrist pushing against bottom of their wrist. Grip other hand, and snap both hands up as you drop your weight and keeping good posture.

Sleeve Wrist Breaks
1. Come to the outside of their wrist with your hand, make a C with your hand to grip around their wrist and punch their arm across their body. This is the preferred method b/c I found that a) it was more effective at actually breaking the grip and b) you can immediately take your own grip.

2. Same as above, but instead of making the C and gripping their wrist, just punch their arm across. I found this to be not as effective.

From these, you can move into the following (assuming you are controlling their arm across your body):

1. T up on them, with an underhook and hand on their waist.

2. Grip the back of their gi right around their shoulder blade of their opposite shoulder.

And now you can move into take-downs:

1. Block the back of their far side foot, sit down to the side and work for head-and-arm control/choke.

2. Move all the way to their back. Get underhooks and take small, quick steps backwards. Pull them back and down. Come down on your knees behind them, not your butt.

3. With control of their arm and the grip on their far shoulder, you can move them around to set up an ankle pick on their far side ankle.

Rolls
Rolled with Sara, did fairly well at controlling and keeping my body facing hers while working to improve position. Rolled with Antone, almost got subbed a couple of times but managed to work out of it. Again worked on facing in and trying to keep knee-to-elbow when I was in a bad position. Which was all the time. Dennis and I had a good back and forth roll. Chris rolled for the first time in awhile, but he was very good at getting and maintaining side-control. Jayson crushed me as usual, and did a bunch of leg locks. I tapped at least 4-5 times during our 5min roll. Had no answer for his guard pass. He was pushing down on my knees so well that I couldn't begin to break the grip.