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20160920 Class with Renan

It has been a while since I posted. The last 10 months has not seen me train very often but I’ve been getting back into it again recently.

On Tuesday this week Renan schooled us on escaping the mount using a hip escape and also by capturing a leg to go to half guard.

Setup for Mount Escape

Firstly, use your elbows to stop your partner from climbing higher on your body/chest. Keep them braced against your partner’s knees. Take your right hand and put it on your opponent’s left hip, or put your forearm across the front of their waist with your elbow near their left hip. Open your opponents feet, put your right foot sole-down inside your partner’s left foot and walk it out to your right. Take your left leg and lay it on its left side inside your partner’s right foot. At this point you will be a little on your left side, you may have to buck your hips a little to get into this position.

Hip Escape

From the above position push off with your right hand and foot, and hip escape back and to your right. Pull your left leg through and get your left knee and shin inside your partner’s left thigh. Then get your left leg/shin inside their other thigh and sit up to butterfly guard, if you can. If you can’t sit up, you’ll need to make space by lifting your partner with your feet and pushing them back. Use the momentum to sit up and keep your head low.

Capture Leg to Half Guard

From the above set up position, use your left leg on the floor to push your partner’s right foot out to the left. Step your right foot clearly across and over that foot and plant it flat on the mat. Slide your foot back across the mat and pull their right foot and leg over your left leg. Once you can plant your right foot on the mat inside your left leg, you can now focus on establishing half guard. Climb your left leg higher on your opponent’s right leg, then move your hips to the right gradually. Once your left thigh is on top of their knee and thigh you should be able to move your hips to face right, wrap your right leg behind their thigh and knee, and lock with tight with your left leg over your right foot. You could continue on from here to establish Butterfly Guard, but that’s for another post.

#mountescape

20150919 Class at Ralph Gracie’s in SF

I visited Ralph Gracie’s Jiu-Jitsu academy in SF and enjoyed myself. It started with warm-ups and floor movement drills, then moved into technical drilling from an open-guard position, and finished up with free rolling. 1.5 hours later I was pretty well done.

The two techniques I remember:

1. I’m on my back in an open guard position with my right leg over my partner’s left shoulder and my other leg out to the left near or on the ground. I grip their left sleeve with my left hand and push on their ribs or side with my right hand to stop them passing on my right. Assume they are trying to stack and pass. I put my left foot down and hip away to the left so I can turn my right shin to the right and bring my right knee and shin down in front of my partner’s chest until my right instep is on their shoulder/neck. I swing my left foot over and put it on their left hip and push away while still pulling on their sleeve to stretch them out. Bring your right foot around and put it on the hip next to your other foot, their left arm should be between your legs. I used both my hands to secure the arm at this point, then you can swing your left leg over their head and pull them into a leg triangle.

2. Similar starting position as above but this time your left leg is between your partner’s legs almost like they might pass to your left. Push away and straighten out as much as you can while holding their left sleeve and arm close to your body. This time rotate your right shin to the left and drop your knee low until your foot hooks the neck/shoulder. Rotate to your left, I put my forehead on the mat, until you eventually put your right hip on mat with their left arm pinned underneath. If your partner rolls through, I forget what you can go for. If they don’t roll, then I sat up and reached across their back and grabbed their right arm and pulled them back into a crucifix position where I go for a collar choke with my left hand.

These techniques felt complicated but were really fun. I know I tried one out while rolling but didn’t really pull it off.

20150910 Class at Romulo Melo’s School

I visited Romulo Melo’s for the first time, great school and great people, especially Romulo.

We practiced 5 techniques starting from closed guard. Your partner is in your guard, your right hand is deep in their right collar and they are controlling your left arm with their right hand on your bicep.

1. Overhand choke: Hip out to your right, get your left shin inside their right arm and push your right leg against their left armpit and across the shoulder blades while pivoting your head and body to your right. Break the grip on your left arm using your shin and chop into the left side of their neck while grabbing palm-down their gi. Rotate back to the original position while tightening the choke.

2. Omoplata: Hip out to the same position described above. Instead of going for a choke, use your left leg to break the grip on your left arm and then grab their left elbow on the gi with your left hand, transfer your right grip to their belt or somewhere near their hip. Use your left leg to push on the back of their head and try and touch it to the mat. Swivel your feet out to the left and flatten your lower legs to the mat. Break your partners posture by pulling them towards you, then finish the omoplata by leaning forward so you can whisper into their far ear.

3. Underhand choke

4. Armbar

5. Scissor sweep

More details later

20150123 Rolled with Jorge and Noon Class with Wagner

Jorge and I rolled at 11, and also worked with a new guy showing him basic closed guard techniques.

In the regular class we worked a sweep starting from closed guard. With sleeve control open your guard and place your right foot on the ground near their knee. Hip back to your right and place your left foot on their left hip with your shin across their belly. Using your right foot and left elbow sit up and into your opponent. Reach over their right shoulder with your right hand and grab their belt or pants. Use the pushback momentum to fall back and kick them over your head with your left leg. Follow through to side control, kesa gatame, trap one arm between your chests.

#sweep #full-guard

20141230 Class with Wagner

Trained: 45 minutes

We practiced a couple of spider guard techniques. Here's how we got to the starting position: From full guard get control of both sleeves near the wrist. Open your guard and pull one leg up inside the elbow of your opponent and get the knee/shin on bicep and your foot on their hip. Do the same with the other leg. Spread your knees apart while keeping good sleeve control. Push off your left foot and move your hips back, take your right foot and circle it over the the left bicep and under/behind the left armpit. Tuck your right arm in tight to your hip and really secure their left arm and wrist.

From there:

Sweep: Take your left foot and hook it on their left hip, with your shin lined up across their stomach or waist. At this point they should try to pass on your left side, be sure and keep your shin on their belly. Hook behind their right knee with your left arm and bring it close to your head. You are going to sweep them to your right by pushing right with your right leg and kicking them upwards with your left leg. You should end up landing with your right shin on their left bicep, which will hurt a bit if you drop your full weight on it.

Omoplata: Take your left foot and post it with the ball of the foot on the mat to the right(your right) of your opponents left knee. That requires you falling to your left side, at the same time roll on to the back of your neck while pushing off your left foot. Kick your right leg against their armpit so they go face first towards the mat and follow them to the omoplata position and secure their hips.

#spider-guard #sweep #omoplata

20141223 Trained with Charles

Trained: 1 hour

Made some progress recovering guard from half guard. If I have my opponents right leg in my half guard, I can keep the hook with my right leg while trying to insert my left foot inside their right knee and thigh. If I can get my hook in I can go for butterfly guard.

Its very important not to allow yourself to be flattened out in half guard.

#half-guard

Journal Change

The last few weeks I've trained only a few times. That's not unusual for this time of year. I've also not recorded those few times in the journal, and I'm not sure I really need to do that anymoe. I've tried in the past to always keep some record of my training, but I doubt it is 100% complete.

I think I'm going to change what I use this for. Focus more on recording techniques I want to learn and improve on. For instance, I've been thinking a lot lately about half-guard, both sides of the position. I don't especially like holding someone in the half-guard position, I don't have many attacks from there and I don't know a lot of techniques to help me recover to a better position. This video covers some basics, along with recovery techniques I want to learn. They seem simple.

And for dealing with someone who has me in half-guard, I'm going to focus on the denying that person the basics outlined in the above video. I'll try to flatten them out and get the cross-face and underhook, or make some space using my head in their abdomen and not let them get underneath me. From those two positions I can play with breaking their half-guard.

I would love to learn the shaolin sweep.

#half-guard

20141122 Noon Class with Wagner

Trained: 1.5 hours

Rolled with Jorge at 11am and took a break before joining the class. Wagner showed us a move to get omoplata from guard.

20141118 Rolled with Jorge & Alejandro

Trained: 1 hour

20141113 Rolled with Jorge & Alejandro

Trained: 1 hour

20141112 Rolled with Jorge

Trained: 1 hour

20141108 Noon Class with Wagner

Trained: 1 hour

Everyone felt tough to roll with, but I'm chalking that up to having been out for a little while.

20141106 Private class with Wagner

Trained: 30 minutes

Feeling rough after not training in a while. He told me I need to attack more and also showed me how to reverse an americana on someone trying to submit you from side control.

20141014 4:30 No Gi Class with Wagner

Trained: 1 hour

20141009 Private Class with Wagner

Trained: 30 minutes

Rolled and worked a little on passing half-guard.

20141008 6:30 Gi Class with Marcio

Trained: 1 hour

Sweep from half guard. You are on your right side hooking the person's left leg. Reach under their right arm to grab their belt behind their back. If they don't defend this you can take their back. To defend they should reach under your left arm and grab your lapel. Let go of their belt and grab the sleeve of their right arm and use your elbow to lock that arm tight to your body. Reach behind their left knee with your right hand and push towards to your right. Then roll back back to your left and flip them to their back. Keep the hold on their leg until you escape your right leg to side control.

20141007 Private Class with Wagner

Trained: 30 minutes

We just rolled and he showed me an escape from triangle.

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