After the usual warm-up routine, we got straight into drills about passing and defending guard with one player seated and the other on his feet. Key points emphasised here were always connecting elbows to knees to close the space down, and making yourself a compact unit to not allow the opponent a place to secure grips, plus distancing feet if you are attacking to avoid the opponent catching them and trapping your opponent's feet if you are sitting.
We then worked on a guard pass where the standing player moves from in front of his opponent into North-South control. This went something like this:
i) Pick a side you're going to attack and place your left hand on the gi trouser leg at the ankle of the opponent's right side.
ii) With your right hand pin his hip and apply pressure with both hands to secure the opponent in position. Remember to keep your posture up and you legs at a safe distance.
iii) Then move past his legs to the right side of the opponent. Keep applying the pressure and keep the grips in place, then step your right leg in front of your left and move your left leg out so you've moved 180 degrees to the opponent's head from his feet.
iv) Now drop down into North-South and remove the grips and secure the position.
We then worked a variation of this same pass but where the hand on the hip secures the opponent's collar on the left side and you use these two handles to collapse the opponent. This went something like this:
i) Pick a side you're going to attack and place your left hand on the gi trouser leg at the ankle of the opponent's right side.
ii) With your right hand, secure a grip on his left-hand gi collar. Remember to keep your posture up and you legs at a safe distance while pressuring down.
iii) Collapse the seated opponent by pulling down with your right hand to collapse his posture and dragging your left hand on the floor towards your right so the opponent effectively curls into a foetal position. As this happens you use the momentum created to move to your right to secure his back.
This was then adapted to give attacking options:
iv) When you have him curled up and you are in position, prop your right knee up against his back to prevent him moving.
v) Secure an over-under seatbelt control by driving your left hand under his neck and your right hand under his armpit so you have an underhook nearest you. Use this to secure the position.
vi) Move you left arm from under his neck and prop his head on your knee and trap it between you left arm and knee. Grab the opponent's right arm at the wrist, then grab your wrist with you right arm to secure kimura control.
vii) From here, you posture up to secure the kimura control, then drop you right leg over and pull him backwards so you have his back and one hook in with your right leg. Then fight to secure the other hook with your left leg.
We then did another passing and defence drill where the seated player had to score points or successfully take guard to win and the oncoming standing player had to pass guard or score points to win.
We then went onto sparring where one of my blue belt friends caught me again and again in basic submissions. On the plus side I knew what was going on and had half an idea on how to defend myself, but he was just too fast and the submissions were too fast. But he's very good. I then got to roll with another blue belt and fell for one choke but managed to defend myself and my position for the rest of the time.
Another great class.
LESSON FROM TODAY: Keys to passing guard include posture, commitment, and limiting the opponent's ability to move by pinning his limbs
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