The beginners class focused on strategies for fighting from the knees, using adapted hip throws, driving forward and through an opponent, and falling back to get your opponent in either your guard or to get your butterfly hooks in. Drills included trying to put your opponent on his back, trying to get your opponent's back and trying to get him in your guard.
This was good and I need more of this sort of class because I often too easily surrender position from the start and have to fight to re-establish my position.
The open mat session was all sparring and I did OK with two white belts who were better than me and a blue belt who competes quite a bit. I rarely threatened submissions and tapped a few times, but I did escape some tricky positions and my defence held out OK under constant attacks.
I also started using a few escapes I've recently learnt, such as the Lion Kill Defence and the Ninja Star Defence from armbar attacks. I do need to work on my leg triangle escapes, though. I managed to use an old judo escape to get out of a couple of leg triangle attacks, but I couldn't apply the one we were taught in class a few weeks ago and I kept posting the wrong leg... so I got swept when I tried to stack.
One of the white belts, however, gave me a good tip to survive when a leg triangle is locked in. This involved stacking the opponent and grabbing hold of his belt at the back of his gi to secure the stacking and compress him even further until he releases the attack.
LESSON FROM TODAY: Spend some time on strategies for fighting from the knees; spend some time on leg triangle escapes.
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