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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.
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.
Starting on our Half Guard Wednesdays, this is a great and simple move from the deep half guard. From the master itself Jeff Glover. Thanks to JiuJitsu Magazine for uploading this video!
[Source: http://jcbjj.com/]
JCBJJ.com is doing a great series of videos for Christmas.
I have much love for the half-guard. In fact nearly every medium-short legged asian I know seems to swear by it. This "93 sweep" goes well with the half guard frame that I've grown comfortable with, but of course the control requires I have my knee across the top-players chest and my elbow posted inside. Just a minor adjustment but I can't wait to play around with this come mat time.
Training log 6-29-2011
Two no-gi techniques with Enrique today.
From the butterfly guard, suppose we are slacking and our opponent gets us flat on our back and starts an over-under pass: stacking our left leg with an underhook and trapping over right leg between theirs.
Push on the overhook shoulder to make space and time. Get on your side facing that way.
ASAP, get an over-the-shoulder armpit hook with the left hand. This is used in the next part, and also blocks their head from pushing your hip or leg. Other hand posts behind us like a technical stand. Left foot posts on the ground.
Pull hard on the armpit hook as you bridge into them with a turning motion. Force their head to the floor.
Get on your right knee (foot still between theirs, and trapping their arm) and establish the harness/seatbelt.
Roll to get the hooks. RNC. Boom shakka lakka!
If, during 3, they expose their neck, guillotine. They'll try to pass, which means you'd better have the elbow over the shoulder. If you do, they choke. If you don't, they pass. Choose Your Own Adventure (TM).
No-gi rolling feels good. Half-guard passing is still a mystery.
Today's 1%
When using the back-step to pass the half-guard, hips scoot towards the shoulders, not the hips, in order to produce leverage. Also, keep weight on my armpit holding them down.