Tap #10

Class #17: Late for class, thought I'd miss only the warm-ups, but ended up I was the only show. So got private lesson from Black Ernie and Purple Jack. Lesson was really good and customized because B.E. asked me, "What's your best Guard Pass, then what do you do in Side, then what do you do in Mount, etc."

It really fixed a few holes in my game. In the passing Guard, I'm successful with the wrapping the knees and getting past but get stuck if they block my hips with their hands and if they sit up. Solution: Lift their knees, put my knee under them to keep them elevated, my head needs to move up their body; to counter the hand block, my elbow in their armpit and circle up to their head.

Rolling with Purple Jack, he gets a double leg pass on me; side then mount; I can't escape and but he can't sub me either: I defend choke and all arm bar attempts; he gets me on the back and same deal - defend chokes and arm bar, and finally gets an arm bar. Tap #10. Feels he expended more energy then necessary.

Also, in this journey/process of Bjj, I'm definitely in the acquisition of DVDs/books phase, which I have read about in blogs and which I'm sure is very familiar to people getting into Bjj. Ha.