Tap #6 & #7

Class #14. Just Purple Jack and me. Jack really wants me to bring a notebook and take notes, but I keep forgetting. So I'll jot some stuff here. In class we worked on: 1. Scissor Sweep from guard to mount to the armbar; failed Scissor Sweep to arm bar.

Key details: in the Triangle, getting tight and finding that sweet spot of his shoulder bone; 2. on the Scissor Sweep, I had learned to pull the guy with the cross collar grip -- that makes him light just before I sweep with the legs; Jack says to scoot out, away, then sit up with the grip and fall back down; as I'm falling, I'll bring him to me. Then do the leg motion. 3. Also, it's not a Scissor, he says; more a kicking/stamping.

On to rolling: Jack gets me in a triangle (he loves to do that); left arm half tucked in and caught; right arm is in the triangle; I'm defending well, but can't quite get the angle for the escape; then I try to brace that right hand, going for the collar grip to pressure his neck; but he straightens that arm and gets the armbar. Tap #6.

Toward the end of class, I get his back and he let me try a choke, saying I have to decide collar or rear naked because I was kind of trying both, but I go for the Rear Naked because I just heard Eddie Bravo talking about how awesome Marcelo Garcia's rear naked choke was and how one must practice the Squeeze. Of course, I couldn't quite finish and gave up because I was using too much strength.

We reset and he got my back and got me in kind of collar crucifix and I tapped. Tap #7. But I think about it and it was almost a revenge ego sub because I almost got him it that rear naked. But it proves that Purple Jack is human.