Category: Jiu-Jitsu (Page 6 of 6)

I had to miss on Tuesday night, and I already felt a little behind.

Technique was an escape from side control:

• Inside elbow to the ground and hand on hip
• Outside hand across face and grip the trap
• Oopa and get the underhook with outside hand
• Reverse shrimp through the hole created with underhook
• Head pushes down arm and transition to their back
• Option from the oopa is to bring blocking knee across the lap and hook the hip to regain guard

We did King of the Mat, and poor Norm got stuck for the whole duration because nobody could pass his guard. I made it down a couple of times against Ana and Ed, but then lost my spot to Rudy. Got arm barred by Rudy once and triangled by Norm once. Lost my back and side control all the other times.

Had a good roll with Ed and was able to attempt 4 different submissions in 6 minutes–guillotine,  baseball bat, arm bar, and arm triangle. Unfortunately could not finish any. Have to get better at the details that allow the finishes. Especially the baseball bat. I have no idea was I was missing there.

Had another good roll with Rudy. He tapped me pretty early by just driving all the air out of my chest and getting me locked up so that I couldn’t breathe at all. After that I was able to pass and maintain side control for a while. Sensed his escape attempt and adjusted to North/South when he went for it.

We worked on the mount escape again, this time finishing it off with a sweep.

• Elbows to ground to prevent high guard, head up
• Make ‘L”s with hands on opponent’s hips
• Inch active toes up to booty
• Oopa with toes and hands, bringing knees to chest
• Opponent lands in butterfly guard
• Gable grip around back
• Kick legs and sit up
• Overhook elbow tight
• Kick opposite leg and roll 45 degrees to shoulder

We also worked an armbar from there if they post the hand, and this was pretty cool–duck head under the post arm and fall backwards–head on elbow and lift wrist.

This was by far my best night of rolling–was still mostly in survival mode, but was far more offensive against better opponents, and the survival was working much better as well.

I need to focus on finishing chokes. I’m getting into good positions a lot–hands in the right place in good body position to start, but I’m not finishing. I’m guessing it’s the little stuff like how I twist my elbows in each one, shifts in body weight, and angles. I tend to get excited about the positions and forget the little details involved.

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Technique

Escape from mount to take back:

• Elbows to ground to prevent high guard, head up
• Make ‘L”s with hands on opponent’s hips
• Inch active toes up to booty
• Oopa with toes and hands, bringing knees to chest
• Opponent lands in butterfly guard
• Gable grip around back
• Kick legs and sit up
• Post hand and shrug off arm, tuck head and take back

Roll with Dan

Roll with Louis

Roll with Ed

Roll with Frank

Fun warmup with some of the tougher things added today. We did a trip down the floor with shots, which my knees just can’t do any longer…at least not until I’m ready to buy a new ACL. The jumps from knees to feet are pretty easy for me now, and even the sit-out-and-rotate is a lot better.

For technique tonight we worked on the smash pass again along with a choke we can work if we’re caught in quarter guard when sliding through.

• Get to passing headquarters with the foot in deep. My shin to their hamstring.
• Punch down the opposite hand with cuff grip and cross collar grip to pull them up.
• Elbow tight to knee with the collar grip. Smash opponent sideways and start the lawnmower
• Knee follows

The warm up was pretty standard with no new things introduced. I like it that we’re doing more partnered warm ups now–KoB, transition from one side control to the other after an underhook, guard retention etc.

The technique section was progressive. First we worked on an armbar from guard, then we added a transition to back from the single leg defense. The last step was setting up the bow and arrow choke from there. I’m going to try to remember all the steps and tips from the beginning, but I expect I’m leaving something out.

• Hands on wrists, grab opposite tricep of one arm
• Break guard for foot on him on the trapped arm side to rotate, elbows tight
• Release wrist hold hand and control head, bring leg over
• Squeeze thighs and heels to floor, scoot in to close distance
• Kimura grip to break the defense
• When leg is captured in half-guard, control arm at tricep, post other hand, and release head–natural reaction of opponent is to sit up
• Use post hand to quickly attack back
• Go to deep collar grip and roll opponent to bring leg across the lap and underhook the leg.
• Leg over shoulder–for me, had to rock back the other way to make up for stiff hips

Rolling

4:00 with Norm. Honestly, was a little preoccupied mentally, and not sure what I was doing other than surviving based on what I’ve been reading in Jiu-Jitsu University. I was able to work on technique when opponent has my back and from turtle. Boring, but seemed effected. He got a triangle on me that I did a decent job of defending for a while, but he still got it.

4:00 with Louis. His hand is still bothering him, so we started with him in my guard. He passed much more easily than last time, and we were back and forth for a while. I got his back, but I was high and couldn’t get a good balance. Attempted to roll for the bow and arrow, but no dice. We ended with him in my guard and me trying to work for a cross choke.

4:00 with Robert (new): As bad as I am, it’s hard to say I “took it easy”, but I definitely took the opportunity to work on technique over strength with him. Saw lots of places where better artists would have attempted arm bars. I ended up getting a triangle–not deep, but I got it. After that, explained to him one of the only things I know–extended arms from within someones guard will mean arm bars.

4:00 with Norm again. This time we started with me in side control. I was actually able to hold it for a few seconds. I think he could tell I was toasted mentally and physically, and it turned into much more of a flow roll.