Ankle grab sweep: You are
on the floor with your opponent standing over you; use your left leg to trap
his standing right leg by hooking it on the outside; then using your left arm,
secure his trapped leg by grabbing the gi pants at the ankle with your hand
placed inbetween your legs; using your right leg stretch his left leg by
pushing at the knee; then switch you hands so your right hand secures his
trapped left leg and your left hand secures the gi sleeve on his left arm; then
extend your right leg and drag his right arm down so he collapses and you go
into side control.
Ankle grab kick up the arse
sweep: there was also a version of this sweep that used a similar set-up and
grips where you elevate the opponent by getting your right leg under his groin.
The main point of both sweeps, however, was to trap and take your opponent’s
posts out so he couldn’t rebalance himself when you got him moving.
We also did a sparring
drill where the bottom person had to score points or submit the standing person
and I did OK in this and survived a while with a few more senior belts and even
passed a purple belt. This was clearly down to his fatigue more than any skill
on my part, though.
I also had a brief roll
with one of the visiting brown belts and he encouraged me to try and pass the
guard at the start rather than let myself be trapped in it and have to fight my
way out. I realised that rather stupidly this was a simple tactic I'd been
neglecting as I've been intentionally putting myself in bad positions to
experiment with guard breaks and escapes and the like.
The second class was run by
the visiting brown belt and he demonstrated a way to avoid getting trapped in
your seated opponent’s guard and pass into side control when you are standing.
This went something like this:
Knee crunch guard pass:
Your opponent is on his back with his feet on your hips and his hands on your
gi sleeves as you stand; keep your feet back to avoid getting them trapped and
keep your posture up; move your hands so your hands are on the inside of your
opponent’s thighs with your elbows pinching the opponent’s legs together; step
backwards until the tension from you opponent’s legs goes; then collapse your
opponent’s knees to one side and keep a grip of the opponent’s gi pants; then
drop into side control and secure the position.
Knee split guard pass to
back: Your opponent is on his back with his feet on your hips and his hands on
your gi sleeves as you stand; keep your feet back to avoid getting them trapped
and keep your posture up; move your hands so your hands are on the inside of
your opponent’s thighs with your elbows pinching the opponent’s legs together;
step backwards until the tension from you opponent’s legs goes; then collapse
one of your opponent’s knees to one side and keep a grip of the opponent’s gi
pants; secure the dropped knee by bringing you knee through; then drop into
back control and secure the position.
Knee split guard pass to
side: Your opponent is on his back with his feet on your hips and his hands on
your gi sleeves as you stand; keep your feet back to avoid getting them trapped
and keep your posture up; move your hands so your hands are on the inside of
your opponent’s thighs with your elbows pinching the opponent’s legs together;
step backwards until the tension from you opponent’s legs goes; then collapse
one of your opponent’s knees to one side and keep a grip of the opponent’s gi
pants; secure the dropped knee by bringing you knee through; then drop through
into side control and secure the position.
We then sparred for a while
and this was tough. I held my own for a while and escaped some bad positions
but I was too fatigued in the final round and just got tapped all over the
place. A fab class, though.
LESSON FROM TODAY: Never
surrender and just accept the opponent's guard as a starting point; always try
to pass on the outside.
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