Conan was teaching class when I came in a little late. The theme of the day was defending the armbar from mount and guard. Most of the defenses were kind of utilizing the rear naked choke kind of bicep grab and then trying to block the leg and stack. We usually ended up in side control from there and we also worked to knee bar and ankle lock positions. There were a couple of times while practicing where my bridged or extended my body and the muscles between my ribs were killing me.
For open mat I ended up just going with Eric who I hadn't rolled with before. As he is bigger than me I decided not to be too aggressive and pulled guard and half guard right away. No reason to struggle from the knees. I was able to prevent him from passing my guard for the most part and conserve some of my energy. He did eventually mount me but with his long legs there was a lot of space for me to escape through the back door, I was able to do this a couple times. However, one of the times I really stressed my rib when I tried to roll him over. At one point I had him in a arm triangle but couldn't finish. I dragged him across into backmount but wasn't able to do anything there either. I went for an armbar and he used the defense that we had been working on that day.
He did get me in a kimura from half guard and I made a noise of disappointment which made him stop. I didn't mean for him to think I was hurt and I feel kind of bad about it. I'll have to work on how vocal I am when I'm disappointed, I don't want to give a ref the impression that I'm verbally tapping. In both matches I eventually ended up in side mount and submitted him with an americana and the second time with a darce. We went over the darce a little after that.
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