3960 at Noho MMA / Last training of 2016

Taps: 1. Total: 3960.

Brn Baca ... Turtle Turnover Series.

I. Turnover - his head facing 3 O'Clock; i'm at 6 o'clock, my head facing 12.
 a. Top hand on back of neck/collar grip; bottom hand on his belt.
 b. Jump on him, my right leg on his near hip, left knee on his far top of his hip.
 c. Fall to my side, near his near shoulder, slide foot on hip into hook and turn him over and take his Back.

II. Turnover into Bow and Arrow
 a. top hand moves from back of his collar to front, choke grip
 b. Fall to side, slide hook deep, left hand underhooks leg and turn into Bow and Arrow.

III. Ninja Roll Back Take
 a. Get right foot hook in deep, come back next to him.
 b. Reach over his butt to far ankle and fold it inwards to compromise his base.
 c. Lean into him to topple him and shoot my right hand over my left to roll over my right shoulder and Ninja Roll to Back Take.

** he showed Calf Slicer but I was more focused on just getting the Back Take because I've always had trouble with it.

Review: Octopus Guard -- keep getting there from Half but can't quite finish to Back Take.

Good-bye 2016.

2017 ... more movements, less techniques. More principles/concepts, less techniques.

3959 at the Thur A.M.

Taps: 7. Total: 3959.

Blue Girl loves the Worm Guard to Straight Footlock. After she gets me twice, asked if she should stop going for it? Hell, no. Keep going til i can stop it. And i manage to roll out of it on the third try.

Brn Z is a monster of a beast and a nice guy. Perhaps 220 or 240lbs. I ask, did you just Berimbolo me, really slowly? Yes he says, watch me do it again. And he does. And I still can't stop it.

Work:
1. Half Guard - prevent Cross Face, Sit up to Underhook. Drill.
2. Granby Roll - Guard Recovery and Side ESC.
3. High Guard.

Next cycle: Add Passing, ie TT Pass or TT Half Pass (Long stepping) and Faria Pressure Passing.

3952 at the Tues A.M.

Taps: 6. Total: 3952.

Another frustrating class. Getting caught by the same crap by the same people. Even worse, the White Belts are getting better. Little bits of light in the tunnel here and there.

BB Vince ... Knee Bar Counter to my favorite Armbar ESC (leg trap)
 a. when the guy stuffs my leg between his, switch hands from bottom to top that's controlling his hand.
 b. lean down towards his legs, hook his top leg and start Knee Bar sequence.

var. starting with Kimura from Side, and my leg gets close to his and he stuffs the leg.

Brn Jason just dominated me as usual but in more emphatic way ... he's working the top pressure like BB Chris AND taking away all my escape routes and anchors. He lifts up on my Elbow and Knees. And he's got a wicked Knee Slice, really controlling my near arm. Need to get it away from him. Also, just sitting down on my knees just before the pass.

Line Drills with Back ESC ... man, need to review ESC.

Saulo's Scoot Down. Start at 5:45. The Original from the BJJ Uni book. 1. Kick and free the leg; 2. Turn and get other elbow to turn; 3. Turn into him, with free leg kicking over.

There is another Back ESC I like that I have to find.

BB Mike -- had an RNC across my teeth. I tapped. Another lesson: In the street, a strong guy can have a sloppy but very painful RNC ... if he gets across my nose or teeth, he can break either one and there's no tapping then.

White Belt tapped me with that Knee Bar, and I was playing around with Open Guard, trying out Recovery stuff and even Half Guard.

BB Vince Takedown Bonus:

Overhook vs Underhook ...

1. I've got Overhook, over the back and belt; other hand on sleeve, bent low.
2. Two Options: a. trip behind; b. foot in front for Hip Toss.
** Underhook guy has only option of Taking the Back.
3. Go for Behind trip and when he steps in front, then HIP TOSS.

3946 at the Thur. am

Taps: 5. Total: 3946.

BB Chris ... Collar Sleeve Guard Omoplata
 1. Left hand cross collar grip, right hand same side sleeve.
 2. Right foot on hip, left foot pushes on his thigh breaks posture and locks in Omoplata.
 3. Turn to left and make him flip over.

Flatten to finish:
 1. Straighten the top, right foot on top of his shoulder, make it heavy, that will flatten him and make his butt come down.

Blue Ali asked me to show my Fav Reverse Butterfly Sweep, after I hit it on him twice. He said I showed it to him before.

White belt gave me guts the cross collar guard because I was too lazy to deal with his grip. Next time, strip grip. Strip grip. Strip grip. There wasn't room to duck under.

Work:
1. Corkscrew
2. Akins Side Esc.
3. Clamp Guard
4. Guard Recovery

3941 at Mon. open mat and class

Taps: 5. Total: 3941.

Overhook Hook Sweep ... same one that BB Chris use to get ... well Purp Tony hit it on me twice. I might have to put that in my Tool Box.

Brn Arman's Class at 11am:

I. Triangle from Side Control
 a. Lift far shoulder to get cross face deep and my arm under his armpit, and Shoulder of Justice pressure.
 b. Push far knee away and down to mat to turn his body so there is small space to get my near knee in his near armpit to kill his near arm and connect my cross face elbow to my knee.
 c. Switch my other hand from far knee to near knee, push down and get my right knee on KoB.
 d. When he pushes on my KoB, control that wrist, swing my KoB leg over his wrist, chop behind his neck, and fall back.
 e. Lock in Triangle.

II. Half Spider to Triangle
 a. Spider on my right leg, stretch him with my leg on his bicep; be on that side hip.
 b. He lifts his right knee up; my left leg shin on shin and pushes away, breaks his posture down.
 c. My left leg on his hip, right leg come over his head ...
 d. Lock in Triangle.

Working: Closed Guard High Guard ... Elbow Shove in and McKinney push.

More: on Side Esc and Sky Pass and L. Lo Sweering Torreando.

3936 at Sunday Confession

Taps: 10. Total: 3936.

BB Tarca lets me play; new random BB guy, I think also old school judo based maybe, totally dominated me. Style similar to BB Chris and BB Mike at my regular school, but even more so. He really stressed "position before submission" mantra.

Pressure, control, go for the pin, and that way will open up the Submissions. So it was really really hard to make my escapes ... he locked and pinned me tight and when I moved he had the submissions. Of course, there were times we both waited because lots of my escapes are based on the other guy's sloppy sub attempts but he did not do that. He just put more pressure so I had to move.

It was whole different old school way of thinking that I'm going to put in my game. Go for the pin, go for the control ... that will open up the subs.

Danaher said the same thing about controlling the opponent before his students can get the leg locks. All about the control. Lesson didn't sink in until this BB.

He also showed 2 Lockdown Counters.
1. Nice guy ... fall to my side low and extend my trapped leg forward, like I'm kicking forwards... he will tap, some kind of slicer.
2. Not Nice ... left free leg kne up, try to stand ... he will tap.

Still 3926 at Noho MMA Sat nooner

Taps: 0. Total: still 3926.

Although Blue belts got close to tapping me.

Brwn Steve, owner/coach ... has a good little crew, lots of women, lots of White and Blues, not much higher than that though.

Teaching Basics. Love it.

I. Closed Guard, Flower Sweep set up to Armbar
 a. Pulls out arm, switch to other arm, get left knee under his chin
 b. Switch hip, get right leg over his face.

II. var.
 a. Can't get the right leg over ... make sure left knee against his chest framing so ...
 b. he can't come around, get close enough to cross face and pass

III. High Guard to Armbar and Omoplata
 a. sets up High Guard ... right foot on his back to break Posture
 b. space to get left leg over his shoulder to lock in High Guard.

** Omoplata ... flatten to finish, scoot to side or stretch his leg out (this was new detail for me).

Hope I can make it back soon.

Work on: My High Guard set up and Side ESC.

3926 at the Thur am

Taps: 6. Total: 3926.

BB Chris ... Armbar from Side, and can't break ... go to S Mount.

I. Near arm gives elbow of far arm, right arm bases back on mat, then controls far knee.
 i. Giddy up to S Mount, squeeze legs together.
 ii. If top arm is available, go for armbar.
 iii. If top arm is far arm, then switch and spin armbar on other side.

II. If during the S Mount, he gets his arm underneath ... grab both collars and pull his head up, so I don't get rolled.
 i. back step into Side Control or ...
 ii. grab my ankle behind his head, roll into Triangle.

III. Closed Guard Flower Sweep.
 i. break posture to get space to Underhook his thigh
 ii. Pendulum my legs into Sweep and Armbar.

Random: new White John keeps asking me to roll over and over again. I want to drill more but he's having too much fun just rolling. I guess I was that guy once, and I need to give back.

Also, if you smoke weed, you should do it where you don't keep your gis. So distracting smelling that weed on the guy's gi.

3918 at Monday A.M.

Taps: 5. Total: 3918.

Monday 9am Open mat for a change. Small crew of two, then two more showed. Two hours later, stayed for the 11am class of six. Stayed 3 hours.

During OM, Brown Gerald showed a Deep Half Top Roll to the Back. Similar to the Mendes, but this one doesn't yank down on the grips. Instead, top hand grips the top knee, other hand grips the pants at the waist. Fall to the side and hook his leg with my free leg and roll him into Back Take.

BB Chris ... Tech I. Closed Guard to Lasso, DRL, Sit Up Pull Down Sweep.
 1. Double Sleeve grips in Closed Guard. Shrimp, get on my right hip, Left Leg Lasso; Right leg on the hip.
 2. Square up. If he gets up ... right leg pushes on his thigh to stretch him, release Lasso and make DLR hook.
 3. Sit Up, DLR hook drops to mat, feed right hand grip to left under the DLR hook.
 4. Right hand pulls down on collar to Sweep.

Tech II ... if he doesn't stand on the Lasso, leans back.
 1. Non-lasso leg shoots through.
 2. Right hand shoots, too, posts on outside of right knee to spin.
 3. Spin under to Omoplata.

Work on:
1. Guard Recovery
2. Side ESC.

Rener's Advice Teaching Loved Ones

Rener had a 11 minute video. I distilled it down to these:

1. Make it FUNctional. (practical and fun).

2. Expect nothing; Praise Everything.

3. Grow at THEIR own pace.

Keep this in mind teaching the kids.

Year 2017 Plan - 3 Areas

Focus on:

1. Passing
2. Guard Retention / Sweeps
3. Side Control ESC

But we all know SUBMISSIONS are way more fun. But, but, but ... If I can't Pass, then I can't get to Side Control or Mount or Back and I won't get the high-percentage Submissions. So ... Passing, Sweeps and Escapes.

Say it with me: Passing, Guard Retention, Escape. 12 months.

3913 at Sunday Confessionals

Taps: 2. Total: 3913.

Back to the drawing board on Arm Triangle ESC. Newly-minted Brown David got me.

BB Tarca showing a sneaky sneaky Wristlock off a Leg Lasso, and can get Sweep or Armbar, too.

Work on: Sky Pass and Ghost Side ESC.

And Slick Brown pulled off a nice Crucifix ESC off new Brown David as they flow / warmup rolled ... scoot down to the mat low and backwards roll on top of the guy. Slick.

3911 at Sat. Breakfast Club

Taps: 5. Total: 3911.

BB Chris ... Half Guard Passes.
 And he totally killed my Half Guard Game.

I. Half Guard Pass (vs. Underhook and Underhooking thigh)
 a. Left hand shallow Cross Face, just to turn him a little and straighten his spine.
 b. Sprawl/Straighten left hip to kill the Underhook on my thigh.
 c. Left hand releases Cross Face, comes over his head and shoulder and grips the belt/gi and switch hips like Reverse Kesa.
 d. Right hand grips his top knee, left bottom free knee comes under/against his legs, Right Trapped Leg walks up til IT'S ABOVE HIS KNEE and MY KNEE IS CLEAR.
 e. Can either: Backstep and free the leg or KNEE SLICE.

II. Half Guard Knee Shield Pass
 a. Come over the top of his cross collar grip, right in the fold on his biceps, pressure down, trap his hand, kill that grip.
 b. Left hand grip his bottom leg at knee and TWIST my Hip to kill Knee Shield start walking Counter Clockwise into the Knee Shield, into Side Control.

Blues are getting tough. Couldn't get out of a Triangle. Back to drawing board.

Work: Ghost Side ESC.