17.72 Taiwan training 3: 4309

At Taiwan BJJ.

Taps: 3. Total: 4309.

Wednesday nooner, Beginners fundamental class, taught by Purple belt, all in Chinese.

Facilities were nice, bigger than PMA, so not bumping into walls or into others and having to reset often, and they even have showers.

Tech by Purple ... whole series on Half Guard bottom.
 I. Flattened, top guy has crossface and underhook... frame, frame, shrimp, shrimp, and get half Butterfly hook in

II. Option 2: shovel hook with outside foot, near elbow, same side as crossface -- elbow escape into Closed Guard.

III. Lockdown Sweep... Bridge into him to the right, underhook his thigh, sweep to the left.

IV. Vs Lockdown, he frames and stays back ... Leite Dogfight KneeTap Push Sweep
 1. Come up, sit up and get underhook, my right side is on my elbow.
 2. Come up to Dogfight, both knees on mat, tap his outside knee or pull his knee in, and push, lean into him for sweep.

Armbar Break from Spider Web series
 I. Top hand weaves in, lean down towards his feet, bottom right hand underhooks is leg.

Option II: switch hands, bottom hand weaves in between his arms - Triangle/ Armbar option
 1. Bottom leg between his arms, top leg comes off his face, S Mount figure
 2. Reach behind his head, grab my right ankle, let him come up, lock in Triangle.

Option 3: X Guard his arm to break
1. Back to top arm weaves in, top leg goes between his arms, then bottom leg comes on top and x Guard his off attacked arm.
2. Lean toward his feet again, extending with X legs, and lastly, start moving my top arm from his biceps, to his forearm, and close to his wrist (weakest point) ... that should break open his Armbar defense.

Lots of techniques, no positional drilling or rolling.

But I stayed for Open Mat, and so did most of the people in the class.

Man, I am so lazy with my Half Guard, giving up Underhooks and the crossface, just absolutely getting Knee Cut to death by the color belts

Played with the Collar Guard (series I learned at PMA), Drag, loop choke and ankle pick ... pretty effective with White, colored ... not so much. I going to keep playing with it.

Plan to go back to the Advanced class to see what that's like, since it's taught by resident BB.