1/4 - Downtown
So, in an ironic twist, I got caught in a triangle today. I thought I could stave it off for awhile, but I finally tapped. When I did, I came up with nice nose bleed. Had to sit out the next couple of rounds. Bah!
Went over take-downs, or as I like to call it: Pulling Guard More Intelligently
Technique
1. Jump Guard -- Never actually did this b/c I'm a wuss.
2. Foot on hip -- Assuming you have the R sleeve control with your L hand and control of their L lapel with your R hand, you can tap their R leg with your R leg to draw you in, then put your L foot on their R hip and pull them down or sweep. Very, very important if you are going to pull guard that the foot on the hip is on the same side that you have sleeve control. If you have sleeve control of their L arm, your R foot goes on their left hip. If you have sleeve control of their R arm, your L foot goes on their R hip. However you get there is fine.
3. Fake foot on hip and ankle pick -- If their R foot is forward and you have same sleeve/lapel control as above, fake putting your R foot on their hip, drop down and let go of the sleeve to ankle pick their R foot. If they pull it back, switch to picking their L foot. I kept dropping my hand that was on the lapel to do the pick and not the hand on the sleeve. NO. Drop the hand that was on the sleeve and keep the lapel grip. This will help pull them to the side and down if you have to go for the other foot. It's just better control all around.
Rolls
Rolled with Chris, Blaine, Derek, Kyle and Grit. Grit is "new" in that I haven't seen him before. He is not "new" to BJJ. He's the one who applied the triangle which left me with a bloody nose. Chris was going fairly light, but still so good at maintaining side control. I did best against Derek and Blaine, staying out of bad positions and trying to threaten from guard, mount or back mount. Didn't do well against Kyle, his athleticism is great and technique isn't bad either.
After class Matt and I rolled for what seemed like 15min...dunno how long it was, but he ended up getting an ezekiel from mount.
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
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.
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.
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Grip Fighting & Takedowns
1/2 - Downtown
First class of the new year, and I get the vibe that we are well into comp mode. Was good to have three days off from training, especially after the double-header on Saturday. Went over grip fighting from standing and transitioning into take-downs from there. I couldn't more awkward at this.
Lapel Grip Breaks
1. Grip on either side of their sleeve, and snap their arm down and away from you as your round your back.
2. One hand under theirs, blade of your wrist pushing against bottom of their wrist. Grip other hand, and snap both hands up as you drop your weight and keeping good posture.
Sleeve Wrist Breaks
1. Come to the outside of their wrist with your hand, make a C with your hand to grip around their wrist and punch their arm across their body. This is the preferred method b/c I found that a) it was more effective at actually breaking the grip and b) you can immediately take your own grip.
2. Same as above, but instead of making the C and gripping their wrist, just punch their arm across. I found this to be not as effective.
From these, you can move into the following (assuming you are controlling their arm across your body):
1. T up on them, with an underhook and hand on their waist.
2. Grip the back of their gi right around their shoulder blade of their opposite shoulder.
And now you can move into take-downs:
1. Block the back of their far side foot, sit down to the side and work for head-and-arm control/choke.
2. Move all the way to their back. Get underhooks and take small, quick steps backwards. Pull them back and down. Come down on your knees behind them, not your butt.
3. With control of their arm and the grip on their far shoulder, you can move them around to set up an ankle pick on their far side ankle.
Rolls
Rolled with Sara, did fairly well at controlling and keeping my body facing hers while working to improve position. Rolled with Antone, almost got subbed a couple of times but managed to work out of it. Again worked on facing in and trying to keep knee-to-elbow when I was in a bad position. Which was all the time. Dennis and I had a good back and forth roll. Chris rolled for the first time in awhile, but he was very good at getting and maintaining side-control. Jayson crushed me as usual, and did a bunch of leg locks. I tapped at least 4-5 times during our 5min roll. Had no answer for his guard pass. He was pushing down on my knees so well that I couldn't begin to break the grip.
First class of the new year, and I get the vibe that we are well into comp mode. Was good to have three days off from training, especially after the double-header on Saturday. Went over grip fighting from standing and transitioning into take-downs from there. I couldn't more awkward at this.
Lapel Grip Breaks
1. Grip on either side of their sleeve, and snap their arm down and away from you as your round your back.
2. One hand under theirs, blade of your wrist pushing against bottom of their wrist. Grip other hand, and snap both hands up as you drop your weight and keeping good posture.
Sleeve Wrist Breaks
1. Come to the outside of their wrist with your hand, make a C with your hand to grip around their wrist and punch their arm across their body. This is the preferred method b/c I found that a) it was more effective at actually breaking the grip and b) you can immediately take your own grip.
2. Same as above, but instead of making the C and gripping their wrist, just punch their arm across. I found this to be not as effective.
From these, you can move into the following (assuming you are controlling their arm across your body):
1. T up on them, with an underhook and hand on their waist.
2. Grip the back of their gi right around their shoulder blade of their opposite shoulder.
And now you can move into take-downs:
1. Block the back of their far side foot, sit down to the side and work for head-and-arm control/choke.
2. Move all the way to their back. Get underhooks and take small, quick steps backwards. Pull them back and down. Come down on your knees behind them, not your butt.
3. With control of their arm and the grip on their far shoulder, you can move them around to set up an ankle pick on their far side ankle.
Rolls
Rolled with Sara, did fairly well at controlling and keeping my body facing hers while working to improve position. Rolled with Antone, almost got subbed a couple of times but managed to work out of it. Again worked on facing in and trying to keep knee-to-elbow when I was in a bad position. Which was all the time. Dennis and I had a good back and forth roll. Chris rolled for the first time in awhile, but he was very good at getting and maintaining side-control. Jayson crushed me as usual, and did a bunch of leg locks. I tapped at least 4-5 times during our 5min roll. Had no answer for his guard pass. He was pushing down on my knees so well that I couldn't begin to break the grip.
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