Taps: 2259 and Simi OM

Taps: 11. Total: 2259.

Simi Valley Open Mat.

If I get even a sniff of ego, a tiny bit of evidence that I might be getting better, all I have to do is go to Simi OM, and that will bring me back down to earth. Big Time.

And once again, big White Belts are dangerous. Being thrown around caught in a guillotine, I could have been hurt easily.

Saw Zach and he had a few adjustments/tips for his Zach Choke from Side.
1. Choking hand has to be straight, and touching the mat.
2. Need to clear the near arm. Can bait him by killing his arm with knee in armpit, and he'll bring it back out, and that's when control that wrist/sleeve with the other hand.
3. Then come over to other side, and base with leg and switch hand from his sleeve to over his other side of his face to prevent him turning in.

Purple Sky - grip control. Same side grip, then pass over to cross grip, then adjust the cross grip into a punch grip on the outside, and it's really hard to break. He got a few sweeps on me off of that.

Purple - arm drag: same side sleeve grip, then arm drag. Armbar break - wicked. He's the last guy I rolled with and tapped me 5 times in 3 minutes. Armbar, armbar, D'arce, D'arce, armbar. I have to ask about the armbar break next time I see him. He was rolling with a Brown before me and caught that guy with the same armbar break a couple of times.

He did say, "If you base back, I sweep; If you come forward, I armdrag." Something to keep in mind.

Drill:
Backroll - for armbar escapes.
X-bar - back attack. Getting that far leg under his neck.