First we worked a sweep from open guard. Details of this that I could remember were: the opponent has control of your legs with you flat on your back in open guard; you pistol grip one of the opponent's sleeves and break his grip on your leg by kicking it away, then place your foot on the thigh of the opponent. Repeat this on the other side. Then hip escape to the far side of the opponent's right leg and thread your leg behind his right thigh so it locks over the front of his left thigh. Then grab his right ankle with your left hand and pull him over with your right hand on his sleeve and go into side control.
Then we worked an ankle collapse from open guard: the opponent is in your open guard and goes to grab you collar; use both of your hands to break the grip of his hand and push him away; then place your feet behind his ankles to lock his feet in place and push his lower legs to make him topple backwards.
Finally we worked a simple off-balancing drag; the opponent is in your open guard and he cross grabs your collar; break the grab using the two hand push-off; then same-side grab the gi collar of your opponent and sweep your other arm back and pull him towards you as you hip escape and let him fall in the space you've vacated.
Sparring was also very enjoyable today. I still got tapped out a few time but I was successful with two triangle escapes against two good opponents. I also did OK rolling with a purple belt and I even employed some judo-style throws to take down an opponent who kept standing.
LESSON FROM TODAY: Simple off-balancing is also an option to catch an unwary opponent and gain positional advantage.
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