Thursday, October 30, 2014

Taps: 2307

Taps: 3. Total: 2307

Black Vince -- Half Guard Knee Cut Counter.
1 Grab the leg/shin and come up on elbow. Bump him forward with my knee on his butt.

Review:
1. Armbar Break
2. Side Clock Choke.
3. Side Anaconda.
4. Herrida Closed Guard Pass.
5. 1/2 Smash Pass.

Next Apt. training:
1. Mount ESC to got with the Mount Top (M. Thornton). Soon as I show the Mount Top, I can't escape anymore.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Taps: 2304

Taps: 6. Total: 2304.

Focus:
Mount Top - SBG Matt Thorton.
Mount ESC. - Saulo.
Half Top - Smash (MG)
Half Top arm in armpit var. (MG)
Back Attack RNC (MG)

Rolling: Blue Brian, standing up and getting a grip on my right leg and swish, X Pass to Side. Quite annoying. Then he does his whole S Mount to Prezel Triangle, but at least provided some resistance and he tapped me with the secondary attack of armbar and not the Triangle as he used to do.

But shouldn't be happy about it. Need to escape his S Mount. Need to escape his Side Control. And not get started on his whole attack sequence.

Sheesh.

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Taps: 2298 and Apt training

Taps: 2. Total: 2298.

Blue Brian and I showed the other two Whites a Flower Sweep and Gift Wrap sweep, both from Closed Guards. Then we worked positional drills, Mount/Mount Esc.

My GoTo Armbar Break from Mount.



Work on:
1. Breaking Closed Guard and Passing.
2. Flower Sweep.

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Taps: 2296

Taps: 9. Total: 2296.

Advice to new White Belt.
1. Basic Pass.
2. Escapes.
3. Maintenance.

Notes.
1. Side Control Bottom - three hooks/control that top guy can get. 1. Cross face; 2. Far arm underhook; 3. Near knee in the armpit. Let him get no more than one.

2. If he gets one or less, frame against his neck, bridge and shrimp into him and get knee in or far hook into Half Butterfly.

3. Cup the bicep to prevent the cross face.
   a. Counter for the top guy -- staple the bicep with knee.
   b. Counter if he staples the bicep, reach around with the other hand, link hands or grab his foot and come up.

4. He's got no hooks, then bridge and can go either way, knee in or away to the running man/turtle facing him.

5. And if you turtle and he tries to get seatbelt grips or bottom hook in, then flip over him to other side and come up on top of Side.

6. He's got two hooks, cup bicep over the cross face and frame with other hand on his neck. Turn both my knees on the mat away from him and get my butt against his hip. Pull on the bicep/cross face and get him to the right of me. When he pushes back, then Harpoon Roll him over.

7. Clock Choke tweak - twist turn the grip hand.

8. If he blocks the grip, get other grip and around and do choke from other side.

9. Blue Gilles - showed a two on one simple sweep, kicking out the post knee, leg.

10. After Class Special - Blue Brian tapped Purple Jason and Brown Chris asked what it was and so Brian had to show the whole Side Control Bottom Attack Series he learned from Roy Dean when he went up there.
   a. frame against hip with near hand, other hand on the outside of his head. Bridge and bump with that bicep against the side of his head to get room to get knee in.
   b. if he pushes back, then Harpoon Sweep, and if he stops H. Sweep by posting his top hand on the mat ... that starts the whole attack series.
       i. Grab that wrist, put between legs, top leg comes over for wrist lock.
       ii. Push head away, get bottom leg over his face for the Reverse Triangle.
       iii. his other hand is still behind my head from the cross face, can go for straight armlock.
       iv. if he frees that hand to the other side of my head, then Americana.

Rolling notes:
1. Could not finish Spinning Circle Choke.
2. new Brown Chris has a wicked underhook from Half Guard. Could not get him flattened, and could not reverse sit to do Graugart's Half Pass. Need to think about Back Step Pass.
3. vs. Purple Ivan - could not pull off the Arm Drag pull down, but forgot to transition to Single. And could not finish the Single Counter when he had a Single and I ended up in Open Guard which he passed easily.
4. Tapped to Arm Triangle twice. Better start looking at defenses to it.


Monday, October 13, 2014

Taps: 2287 and Sunday Takedowns

Taps: 2. Total: 2287.

1. Armdrag, two on one Sprawl Takedown.

2. Armdrag Sprawl to Single Leg.

3. Anaconda off a N/S Turtle. (getting his elbow across, and diving under).
   a. Even do it as a Takedown.

4. Tweak to the Bow and Arrow -- getting the bottom leg over his bottom shoulder.

5. Counter to Single, Gaeshi throw with hooking with off leg and flipping them over.


Luta Livre. Sweet Pass to a Darce/Anaconda from Side Control - Nicolas Renier.


Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Taps: 2285 and Apt Training, and new gi

Taps: 4. Total: 2285. 

Drilled: Blue Brian was showing the other White Belts the Basic Side Esc - bridge, scrimp and get knee in, and armlock off of it.

I showed the follow up, Harpoon like sweep over the other way if the guy pushes back into you. Key: elbow frame on the hip to help carry him over.

Bri also showed my his Prezel Triangle again. The basic version and the advanced version. The advanced has more parts to it, but very, very hard to defend.

Worked on my Passing - Cyborg's and also the Smash Half Pass. Fell in love with it when I saw Keenan use it to pass Oli Geddes. I'm not getting all details right but still working on the lower belts. Need to review.

Work on:
Smash Half Pass.
Back take when they Turtle from Side - getting bottom hook in first.
Flower Sweep
Armbar from Closed Guard - Whittier.
Bow and Arrow - Brushecha.

Finally, new gi -- Black Trebela (yeah, never heard of it either), Gene Labell model. Broke it in tonight. Like it so far.

Thursday, October 2, 2014

Taps: 2281

Taps: 5. Total: 2281.

Blue Brian wasn't there and Black Chris showed a variation of that Harris Low Pass that he showed me. It starts like a Tozi Pass, but ends like the Harris Pass with Foot Hook, stretch 'em and baseball slide the other leg through for the pass into Kesa and Side Control.

Purple Ivan gave me some tips:
1. Use Torreando Pass. Also, on my Cyborg Over/Under, BE AGGRESSIVE and fast, and drop my shoulder down lower.

2. From Side and Modified Side, get the Seatbelt, then as they turtle, get the BOTTOM HOOK in first, then roll to get the back with hooks.

Funny, he's got the same Facebook feeds as I do because I saw him trying out that Lovato Pass into Darce, and also that Guard Recovery Drill from Cobrinha's kids class.

Keep Watching, Working:
1. Flower Sweep.
2. Spining Circle Choke.
3. Zach Choke.
4. Cyborg Pass.
5. Marcelo Half Smash Pass.