I had to hurry to reach the dojo by 5:05 yesterday.
There was about 3 groups of people rolling when I got there. I rolled with Jerad first. It lasted longer than usual and I sensed that I might have frustrated him a little bit somewhere during our scrambles. That could just be in my head though. One thing that I did that I'm pretty proud of was when he was just about to pass my guard and instead of just laying my back down and accepting side control I rolled over to turtle and then to half guard. So often I think I just accept that my guard is going to be passed and I just kind of fall into it. However, when I was on top in side control I felt like I didn't have very many options. Every move I made it seemed like he knew what I was going to try and then he took it away. Then when I thought I had an arm triangle he rolled me over because my center was too high. In the end he got me in a wrist lock from side control against his body that seemed very smooth, but he said that he just kind of fell into it.
I rolled with Ken next and we started standing up. Ken's ability to weave his legs and come up with different half guard positions is impressive and annoying. That's something I have to get better at too. I was able to get the half guard sweep on him which has been pretty high percentage for me lately, which makes me think it's something I should cultivate and focus on this month. He finally submitted me when I was trying to pass his guard I believe and I ended up with his legs up around my chest. I thought I was in an okay position to get free and stack but he worked a triangle out of it. After that we sort of rolled but also worked on some wristlocks from the guard like the gooseneck.
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