Classes this week have been pretty informative. Last nights class was filled with passes and takedowns. One pass from guard, two passes from butterfly guard and a few takedowns.
Pass from guard:
1. Grab same side lapel low (allowing your elbow to sit right on the pressure point above opp knee), grab pants
2. Put one knee right against center of opps butt, with other knee pointing outwards
3. Push with lower back and elbows to pop opps guard
4. Grab both legs, gable grip
5. Pull opp towards you and scoop onto your legs to stack them
6. Grab across opp collar, thumb in
7. Sprawl and step towards one side, side control
Butterfly guard:
1. Squish legs together, with bull fighter style pin to one side with chest
2. Grab collar, while grabbing bottom ankle with other hand
3. Sprawl and pass towards opp knees while holding their ankle, side control
Second butterfly guard:
1. Control legs, pin together upright
2. Sit on opps shins like a seat with posture up
3. As you feel opp push you away, use the momentum guiding their legs underneath yours
4. Pop up and land in mount
Uchi Mata
1. Start facing opp, break opp grip on gi by swimming arm through high and using your shoulder
2. Go underneath their arm, grabbing opposite lapel
3. Hip to hip, check opps free hand
4. Place nearest foot to opp on the inside of their thigh
5. Bend over while quicking upwards
6. Place hand on mat, if needed
Uchi Mata
Obviously the Uchi Mata can be set up a number of ways, this was just one example.
Choke defense to takedown?:
1. Opp wraps on arm around your throat, begins to pull you back with one leg under yours
2. Grab opps wrist and drop your base
3. Step back wide with one foot, catching opps shin/ankle when you do
4. Pivot 180 degrees, still controlling arm
5. Using opps arm as a lever, twist the other way bring them to the ground
6. Hold wrist and arm control where you then have a few different options (arm bar, knee on belly, etc.)
Needless to say, there's a lot of cool stuff floating around in my head from the two classes last night.
I rolled afterwards with a young female (14) who is about 30 pounds lights than me. I did pretty well and her older brother (16, blue belt) followed up with me. He was pretty calm for the most part during our roll. I was able to sub him with an americana until he came back again later on and got me with a triangle. I'm glad to see people starting so young and I can't help to be jealous that I didn't!
I'm off to Pittsburgh this weekend for a few softball games so unfortunately tonights class will my week ender.
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March 23, 2011
October 17, 2009
Marcelo Garcia Seminar: Day 1
Okay, so I saw Marcelo last night during open mat and he seemed SUPER friendly. Sometimes you should judge a book by it's cover.
There were a ton of people for day 1 with the gi. I saw a lot of people from our gym and plenty of others that I didn't know from our affiliates. Marcelo started with a quick stretch to warm us up. It wasn't anything tiring but he explained why he doesn't warm up hard saying that he sometimes has 5 matches in a tournament and doesn't want to wear himself down. Completely understandable.
Shortly afterwards, we got into technique. We started with a basic butterfly sweep with both hooks from sitting position. He noted that whenever he scoots forward his hands follow, protecting his legs/feet. One under hook and one over hook, sitting back on the under hook side (shoulder only touching the mat!) and sending the person over landing in side. Next, we moved to a sweep to use when the person bases with their leg. We switched our feet and took him over to the other side. If they blocked that second sweep by posting out their hand, we simply scooped underneath the arm for the straight arm lock (or telephone pole?). THEN, if they tucked their arm follow with a butterfly sweep to the tucked side. It was cool to see so many things stringed together.
Next, we learned a sliding collar choke from the seat belt position. Grab the collar with the over hand and pull it with the under hand. If they're blocking their collar, peel their hand away from the top with the palm of your hand. Reach your free hand under their arm, over their head to your own bicep (kind of like the RNC). Finish from there. Same position, but this time the person is pulling their collar away to relieve pressure from the choke. Lay them down on their side, take the s-mount and lay on their arm. Now, reach down and hook under their leg going all the way up and going behind to your bicep again. I can't remember the third one!
Finally, we did a defense to someone in side bridging and going for your far leg from the outside. First step is to sprawl that leg out far, putting your weight on them. Get seat belt, and switch your hip around to their side. Up on your toes, and shoot your left leg inside for the hook. Roll them over to their side and secure your final hook.
Afterward, we had open mat. I rolled with a few people from my gym and two people from other gyms. One female green belt. She was scrappy. I also rolled with a blue belt (quite a bit bigger than me) and did really well. I'm happy with my performance as of late.
That's all I can think of right now but I'm looking forward to no gi tomorrow.
There were a ton of people for day 1 with the gi. I saw a lot of people from our gym and plenty of others that I didn't know from our affiliates. Marcelo started with a quick stretch to warm us up. It wasn't anything tiring but he explained why he doesn't warm up hard saying that he sometimes has 5 matches in a tournament and doesn't want to wear himself down. Completely understandable.
Shortly afterwards, we got into technique. We started with a basic butterfly sweep with both hooks from sitting position. He noted that whenever he scoots forward his hands follow, protecting his legs/feet. One under hook and one over hook, sitting back on the under hook side (shoulder only touching the mat!) and sending the person over landing in side. Next, we moved to a sweep to use when the person bases with their leg. We switched our feet and took him over to the other side. If they blocked that second sweep by posting out their hand, we simply scooped underneath the arm for the straight arm lock (or telephone pole?). THEN, if they tucked their arm follow with a butterfly sweep to the tucked side. It was cool to see so many things stringed together.
Next, we learned a sliding collar choke from the seat belt position. Grab the collar with the over hand and pull it with the under hand. If they're blocking their collar, peel their hand away from the top with the palm of your hand. Reach your free hand under their arm, over their head to your own bicep (kind of like the RNC). Finish from there. Same position, but this time the person is pulling their collar away to relieve pressure from the choke. Lay them down on their side, take the s-mount and lay on their arm. Now, reach down and hook under their leg going all the way up and going behind to your bicep again. I can't remember the third one!
Finally, we did a defense to someone in side bridging and going for your far leg from the outside. First step is to sprawl that leg out far, putting your weight on them. Get seat belt, and switch your hip around to their side. Up on your toes, and shoot your left leg inside for the hook. Roll them over to their side and secure your final hook.
Afterward, we had open mat. I rolled with a few people from my gym and two people from other gyms. One female green belt. She was scrappy. I also rolled with a blue belt (quite a bit bigger than me) and did really well. I'm happy with my performance as of late.
That's all I can think of right now but I'm looking forward to no gi tomorrow.
July 8, 2009
Passing the guard
Both the noon class and the evening class covered passing the guard. It was great because 1) I really need to work on this as it is one of my weak points 2) it was taught by two different instructors so not only did I learn a few different ways to do it, I learned vastly different techniques.
The first one was taught by Scott after we did some yoga to open our hips up. It began similar to the elbow drive but isn't of just pushing with our elbows, we posted one leg out and broke the guard by semi-standing.
1. Grab their belt, ready to drive the elbows down
2. Post out far from the opp on one leg, quickly switch the legs so the post is down and the other is up over opp knee
3. Keep toes hooked around opp calf while holding their leg down
4. Hook the opposite leg and push over to keep control as you slide the free leg through, gaining side control
We worked the same one for pretty much the entire class.
In the evening, we focused on the completely standing up break.
1. One hand on the belt, one controlling the sleeve
2. Stand and thrust forward to break open the guard
3. Grab the opp legs and throw them over to one side to gain side control
We also did closed guard to butterfly guard pass.
So you do the standing break, the opp switches to butterfly guard and you immediately sit down. Simply slide your right knee to their right leg and sprawl to pass their butterfly guard to side control.
Overall, it was a pretty constructive day for me. I didn't stay to roll afterwards though which I am feeling a little guilty about since I can't go to class today. However, I will be going to work out again.
I have been looking through Submission Grappling by Royler Gracie so hopefully that will aid me in passing the closed guard. I've also watched about 10 minutes of Demian Maia Science of BJJ.
The first one was taught by Scott after we did some yoga to open our hips up. It began similar to the elbow drive but isn't of just pushing with our elbows, we posted one leg out and broke the guard by semi-standing.
1. Grab their belt, ready to drive the elbows down
2. Post out far from the opp on one leg, quickly switch the legs so the post is down and the other is up over opp knee
3. Keep toes hooked around opp calf while holding their leg down
4. Hook the opposite leg and push over to keep control as you slide the free leg through, gaining side control
We worked the same one for pretty much the entire class.
In the evening, we focused on the completely standing up break.
1. One hand on the belt, one controlling the sleeve
2. Stand and thrust forward to break open the guard
3. Grab the opp legs and throw them over to one side to gain side control
We also did closed guard to butterfly guard pass.
So you do the standing break, the opp switches to butterfly guard and you immediately sit down. Simply slide your right knee to their right leg and sprawl to pass their butterfly guard to side control.
Overall, it was a pretty constructive day for me. I didn't stay to roll afterwards though which I am feeling a little guilty about since I can't go to class today. However, I will be going to work out again.
I have been looking through Submission Grappling by Royler Gracie so hopefully that will aid me in passing the closed guard. I've also watched about 10 minutes of Demian Maia Science of BJJ.
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