The first of two no-gi classes and a drill for takedowns. The sequence went like this:
i) You shoot for a double-leg takedown. To do this, you face your opponent in front stance, ensure you can cross touch his shoulder to check you are in range, then drop your level in a crouched stance, drop forward on your front knee and hands grab around the back of the opponent’s legs. Head must be upright and tight to opponent’s body to avoid guillotine. The opponent backs away by pushing your head and sprawling. You both return to combat stance.
ii) You then shoot for a single leg by aiming to grab the head of the opponent, which forces him to raise his posture, then moving to a 90-degree angle and underhooking his leg and dropping your stance. Your head is up and pinned to the opponent’s chest to avoid guillotines, and you trap his leg between your legs.
iii) You move to back control, then attack his other leg.
The takehome from this is to keep yourself attached to the opponent to limit his space and movement options. Also inch in elbows to close space and lock around his body.
We did some work on foot pummelling, too, which is a new concept. The idea is that an opponent who has his hooks inside your legs when he is on the floor and you are standing is in a better position to launch attacks to destabilise your base. The defence against this involved removing the hooks, then controlling the opponent’s knee, turn your foot so your feet are shoelace to shoelace with the opponent, then step inside and repeat on the other leg. We did drills to train this foot pummelling and the good news is that I am improving at keeping my hooks active when attacking.
We then did an achilles lock set-up from open guard with both opponents seated. The attacking man has his outside foot on hip and his inside foot tucked under the bum of the opponent and clamping the leg of the opponent. Your hands are securing the leg that is about to be attacked. The knee needs to be tight on the leg under attack. This secures the position. The attacking man shrimps backwards to ensure the opponent’s foot is extended, then he guillotines the Achilles by dropping onto his inside elbow, turning away and lifting his hands to cut into the ligament.
The key note here was that the hands are attached to the body and everything acts as the attacking lever and not just the hands.
In open sparring, I got utterly smashed by pretty much everyone. One very good wrestler hit me with about three successive knee bars when I tried to use a sort of knee shield half guard. I did manage to roll for about two and a half hours, though. So my stamina is getting better.
In the second no-gi class, we worked on a flow sequence that involved attacking and defending takedowns. This went like this:
i) Start with opponent in back control with both hands around opponent’s waist and connecting with a gable grip. Opponent defends by slightly basing out to create distance and using both hands to push down and break gable grip to escape. He then turns to face the opponent.
ii) Attacker moves in and secures front body lock with gable grip connecting hands behind opponent. Opponent defends by connecting his hands around the arms of the opponent and squeezing to force grip apart.
iii) Attacker then shoots for a single leg and secures the leg of the opponent between his legs. The defending man moves the trapped leg onto the outside then pushes the opponent off using his head and breaks free. He returns to combat stance to face the opponent.
iv) The attacker then ensures he is in touching distance by touching the opponent’s opposite shoulder with his hand, he then changes levels and drops forward on his front knee and grabs both the legs of the opponent. His head is firåmly attached to the inside ribs of the opponent to avoid a guillotine. The opponent defends by sprawling.
v) The attacking man defends by going to turtle and the defending/sprawling man tries to take control at the side. The attacking/turtle man then granby rolls into guard.
vi) The man in guard then does a knee cut pass and the man who has guard tries to granby roll again, but an arm around the waist prevents this. The bottom knee is also inserted into the space created by the granby roll attempt.
vii) The man in guard then secures a seatbelt and half guard to attack the back. The opponent is then stretched out and the other hook is inserted. Then it’s attack the neck for chokes. The choking hand is always on the bottom so when the defending man strips the top hand away, the other hand moves to choke. The choking sequence is arm choke, gable grip choke and rear naked choke.
Sparring was OK. I hit a few submissions on submissions on lower belts and tried to play with kimura, americanan and omoplata attacks. I am slightly better at attacking for leg locks and I even defended a couple, too
Things to remember: foot pummelling drills, details on Achilles locks, hand place details on chokes.
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