Lapel guard ain't easy.
It's even more difficult when you barely get to drill it yourself, b/c you're spending all your time coaching a 3 week white belt through the move. I'm being a bit selfish and squirrely, I know. It's partially due to the fact that anytime I've gotten on the internet today, I was met by the resounding notes of immaturity, stubbornness and outright hostility. I have GOT to get myself off the boards when sensitive topics arise.
Anyway, back to lapel guard. I pulled Rachael aside after class and was able to drill the techniques. We rolled before class, which was good b/c it was KOTH night. :( I started off with a visiting purple belt, Mark. I thought it was going to be a kindof fun roll until he knee-barred me. Mental note: spend some damn time on leg-lock defense.
Rolled with Sam, who to his credit, has great movement even though he trains once a month (if that). He transitioned from a north/south choke into a beautiful arm-bar as I tried to defend the choke. I'm not sure how it happened, but it was super slick.
Rolled with a guy who's name I don't know a couple of times. He's very chatty, but even so I was able to take his back once (rear mount or sub resulted in the match being over) and finished with a triangle another time. Rolled with Cory T who passed my guard after a failed loop choke on my end (sad face) and went to some crazy near-side americana something or other that almost made me tap. Truth be told, if it wasn't a white belt and/or we weren't right in front of the line of people waiting to roll, I probably would have tapped. But pride got in the way and I somehow kept my shoulder from breaking, got into a slightly better position and then finished an anaconda from the bottom. First time I've ever finished an anaconda while rolling.
Nando and Rachael pressed me again about Master World's. Money.........
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
I Said No MMA!
I had to take a few days off b/c my body wasn't feeling quite right. I felt dead tired after Saturday's classes and was doing good just to drag myself out to the yard. Had a slight headache and felt really off, like my brain wasn't fully engaged with the rest of my body. Very mono-ish. Felt somewhat better Monday, but still off. Decided against classes.
The headache wannabe is still hanging around, but otherwise my body felt good enough to roll. I was chilling on the mats before class just minding my own business when James asked me to warm up the class. Slacker.
Guard breaks for today. Nothing new, but a lot of details that I miss. It was a little tricky working with Kayla b/c her legs are much shorter than mine, so it takes very little for some techniques to work. I wasn't as smooth as I would have liked, and kept forgetting to pressure the back of the leg that wasn't pinned the mat when setting up the knee cut. Also kept forgetting to trap the pinned leg with my far leg as I was finishing the knee cut.
Rolled with Kayla no gi the entire time, as James wanted her to work guard passing for an upcoming fight. At one point she lightly punched my sternum and I told her that I wasn't here for that MMA nonsense (she knew I was joking). On the last round, James had me start in guard with my head against a padded corner of the room so that she could feel how the cage could help her pass. It was miserable trying to get my hips around with my head backed into a corner. :( I'm definitely not doing MMA shit.
Body felt pretty good after class, so going to drink a crap ton of water and hit the night class too.
Great news...no formal classes this weekend, so I'm off the hook for Fundies and get to watch college football all day!
The headache wannabe is still hanging around, but otherwise my body felt good enough to roll. I was chilling on the mats before class just minding my own business when James asked me to warm up the class. Slacker.
Guard breaks for today. Nothing new, but a lot of details that I miss. It was a little tricky working with Kayla b/c her legs are much shorter than mine, so it takes very little for some techniques to work. I wasn't as smooth as I would have liked, and kept forgetting to pressure the back of the leg that wasn't pinned the mat when setting up the knee cut. Also kept forgetting to trap the pinned leg with my far leg as I was finishing the knee cut.
Rolled with Kayla no gi the entire time, as James wanted her to work guard passing for an upcoming fight. At one point she lightly punched my sternum and I told her that I wasn't here for that MMA nonsense (she knew I was joking). On the last round, James had me start in guard with my head against a padded corner of the room so that she could feel how the cage could help her pass. It was miserable trying to get my hips around with my head backed into a corner. :( I'm definitely not doing MMA shit.
Body felt pretty good after class, so going to drink a crap ton of water and hit the night class too.
Great news...no formal classes this weekend, so I'm off the hook for Fundies and get to watch college football all day!
Saturday, August 23, 2014
Fundies and Sat Class
Today was back-mount escapes. Went pretty well. Felt like I might have let the drilling portion go too long, but people had questions, so.... Overall it went well, I felt like everyone was pretty engaged.
After class Chris asked me to flow roll to try out his back. It seemed to go well, the only thing that bothered him was when I was working standing passes. It'll be great to have him back on the mat if his back allows it.
For the noon class, James went over a spiderguard sweep variation that I haven't seen before. The premise is that they break one of the grips free, so you get a lapel grip instead and either do the regular sweep or switch to a triangle. The sweeps themselves are totally legit, but getting there in the first place is what's tricky for me.
Rolled with Sarah (last time before she goes to Seattle for 2 weeks, boo), Clayton, Jerry and Nick. I was doing really dumb stuff with Sarah b/c I was feeling pretty tired at that point.
Clayton called me out and proceeded to crush my dreams by getting some good sweeps and choking me several times. When he's close on a choke, he really slaps that thing on, doesn't mess around. After Clayton roughed me up Jerry wanted to take a swing at me and smothered me from top positions. He was letting me out at some points, which wasn't ideal. I get what he's doing though. Midway through I decided that I wasn't going to take the domination passively and put up more of a fight. Didn't do me a whole lot of good, but instead of sitting back mid-pass when he was threatening legs and such, I stayed up and pressed forward.
Last roll was with Nick, can't remember what happened except that I got a flower sweep variation b/c he likes to put a leg up in my guard and without a grip on my same-side sleeve.
Left class with a bit of a headache. I've been having slight headaches all week, I think my water consumption isn't where it needs to be.
After class Chris asked me to flow roll to try out his back. It seemed to go well, the only thing that bothered him was when I was working standing passes. It'll be great to have him back on the mat if his back allows it.
For the noon class, James went over a spiderguard sweep variation that I haven't seen before. The premise is that they break one of the grips free, so you get a lapel grip instead and either do the regular sweep or switch to a triangle. The sweeps themselves are totally legit, but getting there in the first place is what's tricky for me.
Rolled with Sarah (last time before she goes to Seattle for 2 weeks, boo), Clayton, Jerry and Nick. I was doing really dumb stuff with Sarah b/c I was feeling pretty tired at that point.
Clayton called me out and proceeded to crush my dreams by getting some good sweeps and choking me several times. When he's close on a choke, he really slaps that thing on, doesn't mess around. After Clayton roughed me up Jerry wanted to take a swing at me and smothered me from top positions. He was letting me out at some points, which wasn't ideal. I get what he's doing though. Midway through I decided that I wasn't going to take the domination passively and put up more of a fight. Didn't do me a whole lot of good, but instead of sitting back mid-pass when he was threatening legs and such, I stayed up and pressed forward.
Last roll was with Nick, can't remember what happened except that I got a flower sweep variation b/c he likes to put a leg up in my guard and without a grip on my same-side sleeve.
Left class with a bit of a headache. I've been having slight headaches all week, I think my water consumption isn't where it needs to be.
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