In the first class, we worked on getting
the armbar from side control. The first involved prising the opponent’s arm
from his body, then ensuring your legs are in position to fall back while
taking the opponent’s arm with you. Key points here are being close to the opponent
before dropping back and extending the hips to get the tap, and holding the
opponent’s trouser leg so he can’t spin out.
The variation on this armbar is when the
opponent defends. This sees you attack the same arm of the opponent but spin
around and move to the opponent’s other side in three steps. Then, with your
outside leg under his body and you inside leg over his head, attack the other
arm that is caught up in the mix, before dropping back to secure the tap.
The third variation is a horrible
neck choke. This sees the opponent defend the second armbar by holding onto his
belt. An answer to this is to scoop the hand holding the trousers inside the
elbow of the opponent’s grabbing-belt arm and also grab his belt with your palm
facing up. You snake your other hand around his neck and grab his collar with
four fingers out. Then bring your knee into play and apply pressure by pressing
your knee against the back of his neck and pulling your hands in.
In the second class, it was all work about
avoiding your opponent’s guard and we did various exercises about standing
passes and preventing passes, preventing versus turtling or recovering guard
from side control, and preventing versus turtling or recovering guard from
north-south. Key points here are to control the escaping man by wedging your
elbow to cut off one of his escape routes, and to trap one of the opponent’s
arms using a kimura grip.
LESSON FROM TODAY: Bridge explosively to create the space to turtle or recover guard; and stay close to your work when applying armlocks.
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