Doing belt jumps is awful. It’s essentially like sideways skipping where you lay your belt on the floor then have to leap two-footed over it and back again. You then change into belt jumps that have a press-up attached to them either time you land on either side of the line. It’s agony on the calves.
In class proper we reworked on attacking the turtle from the back and using kimura control to establish hooks and spin out for armbars. It was a sort of repeat of a class from a week earlier with a visiting black belt but at any level it’s always good to repeat technique as many times as possible.
In the open mat session the following day I trained with my new white belt friend and we drilled armbars and armbar escapes, triangles and triangle escapes, and kimuras and hip buck sweeps. We rolled for a while, too, and he got the better of me but I managed to escape a few times from tricky positions and am no longer such an easy target.
I then got the chance to work with a very helpful purple belt. He spent some time drilling the importance of defending the choke and showed me a very nifty defence on defending the choke from the back.
This essentially involved placing the nearest hand on the opponent’s elbow then placing the furthest hand on the gi sleeve and grabbing and driving the choking arm to the side to relieve pressure on the neck. When the opponent goes to place the arm back to where it was you simply throw the elbow forward and keep the sleeve in position and escape your head out so the opponent’s arm is sort of in a kimura position. It’s very nifty. I’m drilling this.
LESSON FROM TODAY: The kimura-style defence against the choke.
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