A two-week break thanks to a fabulous holiday in Greece and now straight back to class with two early morning sessions.
In the first class, we worked on an attack from half-guard on the bottom, where you grab one of the opponent's legs and bring it to you neck, then clamp down with your top leg to retain the other leg of the opponent. You then swim under his free leg with your free arm and start to off-balance him before driving forward to sweep him and secure top position.
In the second class, it was four rounds of ten-minute sparring. This was tough, but I felt OK, even though I was heavily passed, wrapped and tapped by a good purple belt and a high blue belt.
Things to remember: I continue to experiment with using the overhook clamp and attack from closed guard, and the butterfly guard. I'm having some success with the goodbye choke from the overhook and the guillotine choke attack from a seated guard.
Friday 30 September 2016
Classes 241 & 242...
Two early morning classes and some ideas of how to attack when on top with the man in the bottom in high half guard.
Man on top gets up on one knee with a foot out away from the opponent; grabs the pants of the opponent at the ankle; pull the leg straight and attack for head control; then grab the opponent's gi with your free hand and pass it to the hand securing head control; grab the hip of the opponent and pull him in; kick out the trapped leg and base out to secure side control.
The follow-up choke from here relies on passing the gi to the other hand so its like a collar choke; then bring the other hand over like a collar choke and choke.
If the opponent tries to defend the choke by pushing the hands off, stuff the arm to the side and compact him and squeeze for the Brabo choke, which is a sort of arm triangle.
Sparring was fine and I continue to experiment with overhooks and butterfly attacks.
Man on top gets up on one knee with a foot out away from the opponent; grabs the pants of the opponent at the ankle; pull the leg straight and attack for head control; then grab the opponent's gi with your free hand and pass it to the hand securing head control; grab the hip of the opponent and pull him in; kick out the trapped leg and base out to secure side control.
The follow-up choke from here relies on passing the gi to the other hand so its like a collar choke; then bring the other hand over like a collar choke and choke.
If the opponent tries to defend the choke by pushing the hands off, stuff the arm to the side and compact him and squeeze for the Brabo choke, which is a sort of arm triangle.
Sparring was fine and I continue to experiment with overhooks and butterfly attacks.
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