Fantastic seminar by Brian Johnson out of Seattle. If you ever get a chance to attend one of his seminars, do it. The three hour seminar was broken into two parts: seated guard and top control and positioning from side-control and north/south.
The seated guard techniques I was able to transcribe and execute fairly well. The top positioning, not so much. Note-taking was difficult b/c I didn't have the terminology for the positions. Executing was ok, but there were a couple of times when I felt completely lost. I lucked out with the note-taking though, b/c Brian had his outline written up and let me take a picture of it after class which helped immensely. I'm glad that I at least understand and was able to record the seated guard techniques with good detail. First seminar that I've been able to take away so much.
Set-up: Opponent is on their knees in front of you.
1. Seated Guard Fundamentals: Place the bottom of your feet on the front of their knees with your toes pointing away from each other. Feet should cup around their knees if possible. Your shoulders should be in front of your hips so they can't easily push you over or grab your ankles and dump you. Arms should be tucked in. If they move laterally or back and forth, you should be able to follow them by maintaining pressure with your feet.
2a. Lapel Drag to Hip Hoist: Reach for their R lapel with your L hand, then feed it to your R hand. You start with the L hand in case they block it, which will allow you to still get the grip with the hand that you really want, which is your R. Post out with your L hand, scoot your butt to the L and turn your L foot so that your toes are pressing against the outside of their R knee and your R toes are pressing against the inside of their L knee. By doing this, you should be able to keep them from following you for at least a second or two. As you are scooting off to the L, yank down on their lapel with your R hand. This should dump them into the spot you just vacated. Fall to your arm, NOT your elbow. If you post up on your elbow it'll be easier for them to get your weight up so they can posture up. You want to be close to them as well, with your chest touching or close to touching their R shoulder.
2b. Your R foot should still be pressing against their L knee and your L leg should be laying on the outside of their R leg. Maintain grip on their lapel and if it's a bigger person, scoot down toward their hips. Use your L arm to wrap their R thigh from under their thigh to the inside of their thigh. Think of driving their leg up and toward their L shoulder. You're making it more difficult if you try to drive it straight across.
3. Hip Hoist Counter to Back Mount: Assuming you are doing #2b and when you attempt to drive the leg they post out with their L hand to prevent being rolled. If they do that, release your grip from their leg and swing your L leg over their back for back mount on their turtle position. If they are turtled tightly or you can't get your L leg or body over for whatever reason, reach across their back with your L hand, get a lapel grip and pull them onto you and get your hook in that way.
4. Lapel Drag to Reverse Scissor Sweep: Assuming you are doing #2a above, you slide your L knee across their hips as you fall instead of letting it lie on the outside of their R leg. When they attempt to posture up, bring your knee towards your head and then rotate your leg to the L, which should dump them spectacularly to your L. When done correctly, you can get some pretty good air on someone. I struggled with this one, b/c I kept trying to just rotate my leg instead of loading them up and bringing them in and then rotating. I think you need to use the momentum of them posturing up to help get them over.
5. Reverse Scissor to Back Mount: Assuming you are doing #4 and they base out and you can't get them up and over, kick your L leg behind you to get it away from their body and then swing it over their back to get back mount. Brian used the analogy of starting a motorcycle for the kick out.
6. Lapel Drag / Pant Grip to Kimura: In this instance, opponent has grips on both of your knees. You should attempt to break the grips, but if you can't, go to #2a above (though the fake with the L hand on the lapel is unnecessary b/c their hands are occupied). Assuming after #2a he still has a grip with his R hand on your L knee, grab his wrist with your L hand and swing your L leg over his back. You're holding his wrist in place while you swing your leg to free the grip from your leg. Feed your R hand under your L forearm and finish the kimura.
7. Lapel Drag / Pant Grip to Omoplata: Similar to #5, but instead of grabbing his wrist, grab the back of his elbow or just above on the tricep. Swing L leg all the way over to the mat so that it is lying flat and the inside of your leg against the mat and you're laying on your R side. Brian referred to this as "dead leg"...dead weight which would make it more difficult for your opponent to posture up. It also makes it easier to free your R leg, as you just sit up and you should be able to slide it out and finish the omoplata.
8. Single-Wing Choke: Assuming you are trying the lapel drag, but your opponent keeps squaring up on you. When you move laterally, make a punching or casting motion with your R hand as you attempt the lateral movement. This is to keep their chin up, as they won't want to tuck their chin into your fist. Wrap your forearm around the outside of their neck and bring your R elbow up to the ceiling. Feed your L arm through the crook of your R elbow with the top of your L hand against your tricep. Throw your L leg over their back and drive your L elbow to the ground. I noticed when Brian demo'd this that his L leg was under their R armpit when he put his leg over their back, but mine was over their armpit. He said it didn't matter, but I'd like to figure out why my set-up was resulting in something different.
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