93 Guard

3/6 - Morning - Downtown

Felt kinda weird not doing BJJ at all yesterday.

Pretty good sized class, 12 or 13 peeps. Worked on 93 guard exclusively, then a good 30min of rolling at the end.

Technique

Set-up: Assuming you are framing to your R and opponent is on their knees (to start).

1. Hook R foot under their R knee. You don't want it too deep, probably just enough to have ankle through. R elbow is glued to the inside of your R knee. L leg is up across their upper chest. L elbow is glued to inside of L knee. Both hands are cupping their L arm, which they're probably using to get a cross-face. Don't extend your arms out. Keep them relatively tight.

2. If they try to stuff your L leg down, grip their shoulder with your L hand, forearm under their throat, and punch your elbow up to make room. Bring your L knee back up across their chest and glue L elbow back to knee.

3. If they try to stuff your R leg deeper between their legs or if they try to bring their L knee forward of your R knee (i.e. their L knee is closer to your chest than your R knee), use your elbow to scoop it to the side and slide your R knee back out and regain frame.

4. If they try to swim under your R arm for the cross-face, crunch everything in and bring your R elbow into your stomach.

5. If they grab your lapel with their L hand, use your R hand, cup behind their L elbow and pull their elbow out laterally from their body. Bring your L hand behind it and wrist lock them.

6. If they grip your R leg at the knee with their L hand, bring your R hand along the inside of their L arm, grip behind the elbow and pull laterally away from their body and toward your chest. This should pop their hand off and set up you for an arm-bar. Either a straight arm-bar from there, or if their wrist is against your neck, a straight arm-bar against your neck. If they bend their arm back in toward their body, kimura. Or an americana that you can use to get to mount.

Rolls

Two rolls with Sarah. One each with Chris, Julio and Joe. Sarah and were both trying to be technical. Ended up several times some sort of 50/50 guard, not quite knowing what to do with the legs we had in our arms. I was chuckling inside. Tried like hell to stay out of Chris' side-control and was as successful as I've been, though I think he was taking it kinda easy. Julio let me work a little bit but gave me a fair amount of pressure too.