Sun 22: 5735

Taps: 1. Total: 5735.

BB Tim let me work Back Attacks. Cannonball Grip needs work.

Passing, needs work. 

Mount Attacks, needs work. Get to high Mount. Get under the elbows. Threaten choke to bring their elbows up. 

Work in some X guard, Lasso too. 

Sun 21: 5734

Taps: 3. Total: 5734.

15 BBs in session. Been awhile since i had to really defend leglocks n heel hooks. Didn't roll on any. 

Need to open their knees, get my knee out. n Stand up. A couple of knee bar attempts too. 

• 3/4 Juji from spiderweb
• Cannonball to Bow n Arrow from Back
• passes / Pop up blast knee; Wiltse Knee cut; Sky Cut

Nooner 20: 5731 / Brown 6 stripes / Magic Dust of techs / Nooner n Sunday History

Taps: 1. Total: 5731. 

Tech -- Single Leg X to X Guard options

1. Single Leg twist knock down to Ankle Lock
2. SLX to X Guard: Crab Ride Back take.
3. SLX to X guard: Tech Stand Up, takedown
4. SLX to X guard: Bottom leg comes up to armpit / twist knock down

Two of my stripes came off and i'm wasn't fussed enough to replace them. Then Prof. Crane gives me one stripe, then another. He knows i'm four stripe Brown, but wanted to acknowledge my dedication? he knows i'm not about the stripes and belt color. 

Turns out ayndrea, who's a BB now and works the front desk, told him that she was a White belt when she first saw me. Now's she's a BB. 

i didn't think it would mean much but somehow it does. it's the first stripes i've gotten from Prof Crane. If it comes off, i'm going to save them. he's good people. 

Met him in May 2016, n when i started to come to Sunday Masters Open Mat. 

Jan 2023 when i started coming to his Nooner Adv Class. 

Rickson and Henry Akins call in Invisible JJ. Some call it effortless. i call it Magic Dust. 

I'm going to start a list on it. 

1. Half Guard Top. You want to flatten the bottom guy, get both shoulders to the mat. The hard way -- push his shoulders down. Easy way -- walk to the right, get your knee to the right ... he will follow n get flat.

2. Closed Guard Bottom -- you want to break his posture. Instead of pulling him down, get up n even go for Hip Bump Sweep, he will have to defend n push me down, thereby breaking his posture for me. 

3. Double Leg set up ... snap down, when he comes up, shoot in for Double.

4. Single Leg set up ... go for one leg, when he pulls that back the other leg is in front for the Single. 

Got a couple of Pop Up Pass. Keep working it.

Cross Choke from Mount ... killer details from Roger n Keenan. 

Roger -- start w High Mount, his elbows on top of my knees/thighs. Stabilize, get ready for bump. 

Keenan -- second hand / elbow inside to prevent the neck defense. More Paper Cutter motion for finish. 

Sun 19: 5730

Taps: 5: Total: 5730. 

Tapped to Rev Triangle, an couple of arm bars ... good feedback loop / work on esc -- rev triangles or any triangles try to get both hands in or out ... non-trapped hand to my chest and thru ... 

Couldn't finish any top positions i got in ... keep working Roger's Cross choke from Mount / and armbar.

Aoki Lock

Passes

ESC ... from side and back. 

Got swept from Half Top ... need to anticipate and back step out of it to Pass. 

Nooner 18: 5725

Taps: 3. Total: 5725.

Tech .. Single X to X guard

var 1 - Crab Ride, Back Take

1. stretch w X guard, need to underhook his lead foot, but heavy n on the mat so ...
2. my off left off hand on back of his knee, pull twist down so his knee comes forward n onto to my chest like he's doing KoB ... that makes his lead foot light n space there for me to get under his foot n grab his pants leg on other side
3. off hand comes under too, grabs my other wrist in kimura grip -- that helps pass his leg over my head n to the other side
4. if he's turned, n there's space, get my left knee behind his knee for Crab Ride Back Take.

var 2  -- Knock Down to leg drag/folding pass

1. got the leg to the other side, my left (same side) arm overhooks his foot
2. my right hand cups just above his knee, pulls/twists back to right n knocks him down
3. my left foot which has been underhooking his knee, butterfly hook lifts high
4. I scoot in close so he can't scrimp n make space
5. my left hand grips his collar and comes up in leg drag / folding pass.

var 3 - Tech Stand up

1. got his leg to other side, underhook that leg
2. my bottom leg posts on his thigh and pushes to stretch him out
3. as i come up on lift his leg up into Tech Stand Up n knock him down

** killer detail ... var 1 n 2, CUPPING the KNEE ... 

on my mind:

• Aoki Lock / heel hook var
• Pop up Pass
• Surfer Pass
• Side ESC
• Butterfly Sweep -- Wardinski Game
• Roger cross choke from mount / coupled w armbar from mount

Gen. reminder -- don't get so frustrated i can't finish BBs. Good info, good feedback. means i'm doing something wrong. back to drawing board, back to the lab. Means if i ever do finish on a BB, then it will work on most peeps.

Sun 17: 5722

Taps: 6. Total: 5722.

New guy Brown using Surfing Pass, which i've forgotten about. looks cool and he passed some of the lower belts that i've had trouble with. might add to my toolbox.

Keep at it: Passing ... Wiltse, Sky, Pop up X, Killer Hip? 

Milton N/S armbar. 

Bhasar got me with Paper Cutter; he had a variation of pushing my head with his elbow after he got the initial underarm, collar grip on me. I really need to prevent that second top choking grip. 

He also got BB Wade the the old Bear Half Sweep from the Lost Tech dvd ... i've forgotten all about it. Need to add that, too. He also suggested i check out Eddie Bravo's Half Guard system.

BB Monica ... she kept escaping my foot attacks by getting her knee out instead of defending her foot, like most people. I forgot once i lose knee control i can't finish the foot lock. She did that three times. I need to use that.