Guard Passing

1/3 - Downtown

Did the evening class tonight. We've definitely moved into tournament mode. Pummel drills after the warm-up, then technique, then competitors on the mat rolling non-stop with fresh opponents. Pure awesome (no sarcasm!).

1. Standing Guard Pass -- Grip their L lapel with your R hand, put L hand on the mat or on their chest, roll forward and up to your feet. As soon as opponent opens their guard, sweep L hand behind you to swing their R leg past your body. As you're passing their leg across, crowd them with your hips. Hips forward and weight down. Keep ahold of their L leg as you stack and pass.

Set-up: Opponent has you in spider guard, with both of their feet on the inside of your elbows.

2. Spider Guard Pass (Hips In) -- Get same side grips on their pants below the knee. Push your elbows together to negate their ability to use their feet on your elbows. Step back to create space, then move forward into opponent, hips low, posture up. Crowd the back of their legs with your hips. Their legs should be close to straight up and down. As you pass to your L side, slide R knee between their thighs, slide R arm under their L arm, under their chin and behind their head. Grip L sleeve with R hand and sit to your R side.

3. Spider Guard Pass (Toranado) -- Same start as #2, except that as you step back, you yank down on their legs and plant them to the mat. Step to the side, plant your head in their chest and get to side-control.

Rolls
Competitors stay on the mat, fresh opponents come if mount or submission is achieved. Long first roll with Sara, good back and forth. Long roll with Jayson too, I tried to stay out of trouble with the leg locks. He ended with mount. Rolled with James twice. Relatively happy with both, but he got a crazy knee bar on the first roll that I absolutely did not see coming. Sick. Rolled with a bunch of new kids, happy with my control there. Felt bad attempting to tap them quick, but such is the way of tournament prep.

Overall, really happy I went. I was on the fence since I had a bit of a headache and wasn't feeling 100%, but it turned out very well.