17.88 Saturday Breakfast Club 4373

Taps: 5. Total: 4373.

BB Chris ... I. Half Guard, under hook lapel grip, knee shield to half butterfly hook, let him cross face, into butterfly sweep.

II. KoB cross choke.

Work ...
 1. Cross Guard sweep
 2. Closed Guard Triangle n back takes
 3. Dlr back takes, look up Next Gen dlr DVD

17.87 Thur Am Club 4368

Taps: 2. Total: 4368

BB Chris .. mismash of old and new techs.

I. KoB underhooks my ankle, pull up sleeve and slide into Armbar (from Tues)

II. Closed Guard - Lasso Guard - Dlr - Sit up to Pull Down Sweep (Tues he showed it just from DLR).

III. DLR Backtake
 a. lose one sleeve grip, keep the cross grip.
 b. right leg (non-DLR leg) posts under armpit of the sleeve grip, pushes as my DLR leg presses down on the back of calf of DLR leg, that will turn him away from me, exposing his back, even getting him down to mat.
 c. Right leg comes off armpit and tucked in behind his calf (mini Hook), left hand lets go of ankle and sits up and grabs belt.
 d. Right hand keeps the sleeve grip and pushes into him, as left DLR leg pendulums up in air and i scoot myself to right, near his head ... That will turn him, giving me the Back.

IV. Closed Guard - Side Guard Sweep.
 a. standard attack the right arm and getting it across my center line to my right and locking in Side Guard, reaching over and gripping gi near his armpit.
 b. swimming back, getting on my elbow ... reaching across his chin with left hand, grabbing behind his far elbow.
 c. open guard and bump Sweep him over.

17.85 Sunday Confessions 4365

Taps: 7. Total: 4365.

Cross Collar Guard … 1. Push Pass; 2. Collar Drag; 3. Loop Choke.

2on1 Sleeve 93 … Push on knee to Back Take.

BB Steve … hard time escaping his positions … just go from one bad position to another … Armbar Escape to being Mounted; Back Escape to Spider web; Mount Esc to Side, etc.

Need to tighten up my escapes, especially Back ESC and Side.

*Trying CBD oil … to see if it will help with recovery and aches. Day 1: couple of drops before and after.

BB Pike … didn't get chance to roll with him but saw him showing a RDLR series, especially vs the Knee Cut.

1. Underhook ankle of Knee Cut and Sweep.
2. Or Invert under and Back Take.

Wanna drill it.

Also, Back Attacks ... getting to the back more, but not being able to finish.

17.84 Saturday Breakfast Club 4358

Taps: 9. Total: 4358.

BB Chris … I. Closed Guard Flower Sweep … make sure to pendulum, and swing back to scissor.

Nightmare Brown Pierre came to visit. He moved to Arizona. Also, saw Brown Z - toughest, nicest guy i know. He's huge.

Where did the 9 taps come from? Rolled with Z twice, and Pierre at the end … that's about 6 taps there. I know Purple Stamina Comp guy. He got me a couple times. He had faster transitions than me.

Watched Purple David dominate Night Brown Eddie … who i always had a tough time with. Maybe he underestimated Dave. He has long, flexible legs, but i think he might have jumped a level these past few weeks.

Last few times i rolled with him, we get stuck in Half and just sweep each back and forth.

Not much luck with Cross Collar Guard. Got the 93 set up easily though, couldn't progress from there bc i forgot what to do if i can't make it to the Back on the right.

Didn't work any High Guard. Hip Bump only worked on Whites. Try back of neck Posture Break into the Hip Bump.

Closed Guard vs Standing

He stands ...

1. Cross Grip, Underhook leg ... WAITER SWEEP.

2. If that fails ... OMOPLATA Buchecha Variation.

*Push with Knee to get reaction.

2b. Omoplata Lasso Variation (Jena Bishop)

Main Passes I Use

1. Lepri Knee Cut to Far Side
2. Lo Torreando
3. Buchecha X
4. Double Under / Keenan

I like but don't use as much.

1. Over/Under - Faria

2. Brooklyn Sky X Shin Cut Redirect

3. Leg Drag
4. Folding Pass?

Knee on Belly Esc - Knee Turn notes

from Justin Christopher.

1. Turn into him, onto my side.
2. Get my top leg between his legs.
3. My top arm reaches over top of my leg, reaches behind my knee; my elbow clamps down on his knee.
4. Other leg helps with Reverse Shrimp, turn back the other way. 

17.83 Sunday Confessions 4349

Taps: 6. Total: 4349.

Good crowd, bummed i had to leave early, didn't get any rolls after the photo session.

BB Tarca … being a Black Belt has wicked Guard either side, so no luck using Lepri Knee Cut to Far side has been my go to lately. He got me four times with leg locks.

Need to do better job Passing Half Knee Shield, too. Get them parallel and Far side.

Working High Guard, Cross Collar Series, and Octopus Half.

17.82 Sat. Breakfast Club 4343

Taps: 2. Total: 4343.

BB Chris … couple of warmup techs and then a DLR to Pull down Triangle.
 1. Reg. DLR start with left foot hook, left hand on ankle or ankle gi grip, Right foot on the thigh keeping tension and distance, Right hand gets same side sleeve (his left).
 2. Push out with my Right foot, sit up and pass Right hand sleeve grip under his leg to my left hand.
 3. Clamp with my left foot on his lead leg, Right hand pulls down on his collar to the right, he posts his hand on the mat.
 4. As he turns into me to regain posture, swing my right leg over and lock in Triangle.


Seeing that Cross Collar series in Taiwan really helped me put it into my toolbox, getting lots of mileage with it. I know Kron uses it and different people haves shown me pieces of it but Taiwan Chris really put it all together for me and it's really Clicked.

I reach with my left and feed it to my right for cross collar.
 1. I puash and knee tap / knee pick with the other hand for the Pass.
 2. He pushes back into me and I pull for Collar Drag and Back Take.
 3. He gets pants grips, torreandos to my right, I let him Pass right into Loop Choke.
 4. He tries to pass to left, I follow and keep him square.

Work on:

• High Guard
• Beck's 2on1 kimura grip Triangle. 
• 92 Guard. 
• One arm kimura sweep. 
• Jake Mc's Reverse Half Sweep.

17.81 Thur. AM 4341

Taps: 2. Total: 4341.

BB Chris ..

I. Closed Guard to Lasso Sweep
 1. Left leg lassos, Right leg comes across his belly to other side.
 2. Torque to left with Lasso, and get him close and on top of me, making him light
 3. Right hand grips his outside pants grip and help to Sweep to the left.

II. Side Control Lapel Sweep.
 a. Left hand Cross face, feeds my own gi tail, same side.
 b. Come over top of his head, come down on his neck like Papercutter Choke.
 c. Can finish with one hand or other hand can come under and grip higher up on the gi.

*Really like Lepri's Knee Cut (that i work on the Far Side - to right) ... it works pretty well all way up to low level Purple.

So there were two brand new White Belts and they were working on Basic Guard Pass, shown by Brown G ... because the Bluey that was showing them didn't know what he was doing. Later, Bluey calls me over to show them the N/S Choke ... my God! i so didn't want to because they First Day Whites ... they should be working 40 other things before they learn a Submission.

blue belts should not be teaching. there i said it.

ok rant over.

17.80 Tue Am 4339

Taps: 1. Total: 4339.

BB Chris … review techs.
 I. Close Guard … he puts one knee up … underhook and Flower Sweep to Mount.

 II. Close Guard … he stands … drop my knees, double ankle sweep to Mount.

 III. Nasty Gi Choke from Mount.
 1. Left hand cross face, put my face next to his on the right to hide what i'm doing.
 2. Right hand feeds my gi tail to cross face hand.
 3. Pull tight so it's against his neck, jump off Mount, right foot on KoB
 4. Move clock wise, getting my head on right side of his hip.

Six Brown Belts in the house. We were all in the Positional drill.
 1. Pulled off the Cross Sleeve Hip Bump a couple of times.
 2. Got my Half Guard as usual the first time around, but not second time.
 3. Played around with 92 Guard, 2on1 sleeve. No luck. Not concerned, first time trying it.

Need to break down posture better in Closed Guard when they posture back. Sit up and grab back of their head, go for Sleeve Hip Bump and when they push back, control back of their head and go to High Guard.

2nd Hour -- BB Vince.

Series of Closed Guard Break to Combat Base … Passes.
 1. he's got Double Sleeve grip control and opens his Guard … Thrust Hip, Posture UP to get space to get a Knee up for Combat Base.
 2. Double knee pants grip, push down knee, go to left for Near Side Knee Cut.
   a. Underhook Right / Left side get the arm.

 II. he defends with Knee Shield and Cross Collar Frame.
  1. my left hand grips under his bottom leg, go to the Right, right.
  2. Cross face with my right hand, left leg back steps, hip down HARD, so he doesn't sweep me.
  3. Left hand in front of my right leg, near his hip, checking his hip.

III. I do Move II but my ankle still stuck - Far Side Knee Cut.
 1. Go to the right, lift my hip UP.
 2. Underhook my left near side, switch hips, slide my left leg over his HIP (not thigh).
 3. Pass to right /far side.

Bonus Techs. (that's why you stay til the end of class - as MG says, "Class never ends."
I say, "learning never ends."

I. No Arm Triangle -- Cross Collar Grip … Triangle my legs WITHOUT one of his arms IN. Pull with the collar grip.

II. Double Under Pass Counter …
 a. Reach over and grab his belt
 b. My left leg goes over his shoulder, under my own right arm.
 c. when he postures up, i tuck that left leg in and roll over to take his Back and get other hook in.

III. Double Under Pass Var.
 a. Double under … baseball slide to the Pass and Back. (which i've seen before … Chewie bjj?)

17.79 Back to Sunday OG OM 4338

Taps: 8. Total: 4338.

Rolled with both Prof. Tarca and Crane .. Prof Crane worked his Turtle and escaping with wrestlers over my neck move.

Tried Schreiner's N/S Armbar -- need to review ... 3, 4 times with no luck in getting my leg over.

Passes... narrowed down to Lo Torreando spin, Keenan Double Under, Lepri Knee Cut.

Try to get some Closed Guard ... high Guard and Rener easy Triangle.

17.78 Labor Day A.M. 4330

Taps: 0. Total: 4330.

Brown Arman ran his bootcamp Hell Conditioning/Warmups - 40 minutes long. That's how he usually runs his Monday A.M. classes, and i experienced it first time, first hand.

People didn't have much left to roll afterwards, but still got in a few good rolls.

*Closed Guard -- blanked out, tried elbow tuck in High Guard vs Purp Tony and he postured up and i gave up on all my attacks. Sheesh.
 Goto -- Cross Sleeve Hip Bump.

** Better luck with Octopus Back Takes.

* Armbar ESC -- scissor my legs, come up into him. Keep getting my Back taken as i come out of that escape.

17.77 Sat. Breakfast Club 4330

Taps: 4. Total: 4330.

BB Chris ...

I. Closed Guard, he lifts one knee, underhook to Sweep and Armbar.

II. Armbar Break from Spider Web / Chris variation.
 1. Bottom underhooks the arm, my wrist under the attacked wrist (wrist to wrist).
 2. Push his elbow under my armpit, grab my own collar.
 3. Top hand posts on mat and lean down towards his head ... this will put pressure on his weakest point (his wrist) and torque his elbow in bad ankle.

Blue Shane asked about my Reverse Butterfly Sweep; i was showing it when BB Mike showed a Counter to it. Never knew about it. Right my the Sweep, he hooks my non-Butterfly hook leg, and grips my collar and comes up.

Liking:

1. Telles One Arm Kimura Sweep to Both Sides
2. Rev. Kimura Grip
3. High Guard / Swim Move
4. Flower Sweep Variation / Kick to non-Knee up side (don't even need the pants/knee grip - that telegraphs it)