David, Bauer, AJ, and Ken all had a good time rolling this morning. We pretty much just did open mat and would work on little things here and there.
I went with David first. I started in guard and tried to prevent him from passing. I did better than usual against David but he eventually got me in a triangle I think. I thought I had him in a pretty good arm triangle but just couldn't seem to get the right pressure. I kept readjusting and he eventually weaseled out of it. Then he showed me what I was doing wrong.
I got Bauer in a guilitine fairly quickly from guard. Then we went again and while I felt like I was doing well with my movement and reversals he caught me in a kimura that he turned into a straight armlock from half guard.
AJ and I went and I think we ended up stopping in the middle and working on half guard stuff.
We broke for a while and worked on the X-guard sweep. I'm still having trouble figuring out how to come up from there. I think I'll ask Greg about it next time I see him or look for a good youtube video.
David and Bauer took off and Ken showed up. We did some guard passing drills and then rolled. We had a pretty good roll with a lot of position changes. Of course with his crazy legs I always think I'm about to get into a good position only to be denied or for him to regain guard soon after. I also saw in both me and AJ that when we were getting passed that there was an obvious breaking point where we knew that Ken got side control so we just laid down into the position and giving up. I've got to work on never settling for a bad position, but it is difficult.
We plan on continuing these Wednesday workouts and anyone is welcome.
that was a lot of fun, Josh. i don't know if it was the work out or what, but i'm really sore. it must be an end of the day thing or something. i'll keep trying to make it. thanks.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate you and David coming since you have keys to the place, it's great to be able to get more mat time.
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