Half Guard and KOB

2/26 - Valley

 Just the two of us, so we went through a hodge podge of techniques. Got some good details out of techniques that have been giving me trouble lately.

1. Half Guard Pass: Bring your trapped knee up. If their leg is over the top, that's fine. Push/slide it off and get your knee to the ground. You can then airplane their head in the opposite direction, which, if done long enough, will result in freeing the rest of your foot if you're caught in quarter guard.

The lesson to note here is airplaning. I'd forgotten about this and need to keep it in mind when I get in mount or quarter mount.

2. Half Guard Pass: Pass the arm the closest to their head over their far side shoulder and turn your hips toward their hips (your body away from their head). Post your free leg straight back behind you (perpendicular to them) and then shrimp toward their near side armpit to free your trapped leg. I found this worked best when I got my butt to the ground to sweep their near side arm up against their head.

3. Half Guard Pass Reverse: If, while doing the above, the person attempting to pass bends their leg so that the person on the bottom can reach their foot, the person on the bottom can reverse by pulling their opponent's foot into the back of their calf and bridging toward their opponent.

4. Half Guard Sweep: If they have your L foot in half guard, pinch your legs and bridge to the R to get their weight off of their R foot. As their weight comes off, use your L hand to push their R knee back, then drive the bus to your L.

5. Ezekiel from Half Guard: Assuming your R leg is trapped, get your L forearm under their head and either grip your R sleeve and choke with your R hand or make a fist with your R hand, push against their neck and cup the outside of your wrist and upper palm with your left (no gi option).

I've been missing the detail of moving to the opposite direction first and pushing the knee back on this one. Kindof a big detail to miss.

5. KOB Escape: L hand on their R hip and R hand gripping their L pants on the outside of the knee. Shrimp away from the knee and keep L arm straight and stiff as you come up and ankle pick their R leg with your R hand. The key here is to keep pressure against their hip. If you do so, it makes it difficult for them to arm-bar or do anything else. I'd forgotten this detail.

6. KOB Escape: Bring your R knee through so it's in front of their L thigh. Leg doesn't need to be all the way through, just the knee in front. Grip their R sleeve on the upper arm and pull down as you kick your R leg up and over to your L.

7. KOB Escape: Push their knee back if necessary and cup/trap their R foot with your L ankle. Bring R knee through and finish same as #6.

8. KOB Escape: Same hand set-up as #5. Use your R hand to pull yourself under them. Grip their belt in the middle of their back with your R hand and the bottom of their L leg gi pants with your L hand. Pull them over the top of you, and then swing them in an arc to your R, driving your L arm around so that you end up in side control instead of ending up facing their feet.

Quick 5min roll with Gary. Finally pulled off a sweep that I've been trying unsuccessfully downtown (sleeve grip, foot on hip, other foot behind their other knee and cupping near side ankle). Got caught in some sort of choke, don't know what it was.