After the usual warm-up, we started out in closed guard and applied an armbar (right hand secures opponent's right arm and drags it across his body, left knee blocks opponent's right elbow and left arm reaches into collar and collapses opponent's posture, then left arm pushes opponent's head and left leg comes over the opponent's head to complete the armbar), which the person in guard defends by grabbing his bicep and stacking the opponent.
From here, the opponent on the bottom switches hands so the armbar is secured with the left hand hand and the right hand reaches underneath the opponent's legs and grabs opponent's right leg. The person in guard then stretches his opponent out and has the choice of either sweeping his opponent down and finishing the armbar in side control or sweeping him down and moving into mount.
There was also a variation on this technique where the armbar attempt was blocked when the second leg comes across from the opponent in guard. The technique here involved moving the closed guard further up the opponent's back and letting the opponent stand, then capturing his same-side leg and arm by wrapping his leg then grabbing the sleeve of his gi so both posts on one side are taken out of the equation. You then collapse the opponent into an omoplata or collapse him then stretch him out and roll him over you by dragging his light leg over you.
I remain hazy on the details of the latter techniques but the principles seem to be based on collapsing your opponent's posture, switching grips to secure the post leg while keeping his posture collapsed via his arm and your leg pressure, then switching the hips to create the momentum to move the opponent and reverse the positions to get the submission.
In sparring, we did an exercise where the man on the bottom had to either submit or sweep the man in closed guard, while the man in closed guard had to escape guard and pass into side control or full mount. I was paired with two newish white belts and did better than hold my own, even though one was physically much stronger than me.
When it was open sparring, I was paired with a very good white belt and, rather than surrendering closed guard, I fought for the opening position, shot a single leg and secured side control before eventually turning a holding position into a submission. Sadly I cranked this on harder than I anticpated and caused him some discomfort. He ws OK, although I need to remember to control my strength in dangerous positions.
But it was a minor victory with some lessons of sorts starting to be learnt about fighting for a dominant opening position.
LESSON FROM TODAY: Use the armbar attack as an opening gambit then have the sweep options to back it up when it is defended; continue to fight for a dominant opening position.
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