How does nearly a month pass that quickly?
I've been enjoying myself more at class in the past couple of weeks. Not sure exactly what should be attributed to the turnaround, but it is welcome. I feel like my rolling is better than it has for a little while.
Today was an off day because not only did we do takedowns...but they were Kelly takedowns... and he used me was the uke... and I was drilling with Kasey... and I had a tough conditioning workout yesterday (power cleans + push press and burpees). All in all, I was pretty spent midway through the drills and had nothing left for the rolls. Which was perfect, because I rolled with Kasey, Jason S and Chuck. Just kill me.
I asked James to give me a bit of advice for top half guard b/c people were fairly easily sweeping me from there. A simple detail of using your trapped leg to pinch down into them has helped tremendously. I'm not necessarily making good progress from that position. Sometimes I'm able to scoot over and finish a reverse half guard pass, but it's a huge improvement from being immediately swept.
I switched up my Fundamentals class curriculum a bit and did a "paths to back" class last weekend. I didn't have quite as much prep into it as I would like, but I was still happy with how it turned out. Chair sit side to side to retain the back, chair sit from side-control if they turn away and arm-drag from closed guard. I was going to throw in a rolling back attack at the end but we didn't get that far.
Jason is pestering me near daily about Pans. I will probably cave.
