First up was an open mat No-Gi class in which I was comprehensively leg locked all over the place by all the senior belts. I am slowly understanding how not to get leg-locked quite so much but it will take time against good people. It was nice to be back, though, after a week and a half off. I am continuing to experiment with Williams guard, half guard and butterfly guard and this is going sort of OK.
I also sought some advice of getting past legs. One answer according to a very good competitor was to se the leg wrap pass. This seemed really obvious as I use this pass all the time in gi. But, like an idiots, I hadn't made the translation to No-Gi. D'oh!
The second class was a dinner-time Gi class and we did quite a bit of positional drilling. We worked on the following sequence:
Leg drag to knee on belly: opponent on his back and you have his gi trousers held at the knee and his feet are on your hips; pick a leg to leg drag by picking keeping the hand on the knee and scooping under the ankle with the opposite hand; then diagonal leg steps into hip of opponent; other leg steps back and brace.
Torreador to knee on belly: opponent on his back and you have his gi trousers held at the knee and his feet are on your hips; push his legs back then to one side; then diagonal leg steps into hip of opponent; other leg steps back and brace.
We then did a drill where you establish knee on belly using one of the above drills, then you ride your opponent to switch knee on belly sides. Your opponent turns into you so you step with your base leg over his head, then spin around and switch your hips so you end up on the other side of the opponent.
We also did a drill involving the granby roll from turtle when your opponent is on your side and back. This allows you to recover guard or hit a triangle.
Sparring was OK. I hit a couple of nice chokes and did some positional recovery moves. I need to attack with more weapons than Ezekiel chokes, loop chokes and wrist locks, though. I may well ban myself from using those techniques for a few weeks and only allow myself to hit omoplatas, armours, triangles and guillotines.
Things to remember: drills to pass legs; granby roll from turtle.
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