Jerad taught last night and the theme was submissions from guard. We did a couple of different variations of armbar, triangle, and kimura. I worked with quite a few partners and felt pretty good about my techniques. Triangle can be difficult for me at times, not sure if it's the shortness of my legs but I can't always hook it up properly or I don't feel like I'm in the right position.
We drilled from guard with person on top trying to pass and person on bottom escaping, reversing or submitting. I had a tough time with both Fuji and Robert, however I caught them both once.
A couple of people asked me if I was promoted to blue belt yesterday which was odd but also made me feel feel good about my progress. Nope just got promoted to yellow as far as I know (yellow is equivalent of white with stripes for BJJ). Then Adam goes and heel hooks me during open mat because he thought I was a blue belt too. Yeah, nice try Adam. I tried to assure him that I didn't mind and as long as we're careful I'd like to learn to defend the ankle stuff too.
Adam and I had a good roll, however my ribs are still not 100% and there were a few times I didn't buck or defend well because of the pain. Hopefully after this long weekend I'll be healed and rejuvenated. Besides the heel hook he didn't submit me but he could of a couple of times I think he was just working on technique. I was doing my best to stay on my side in half guard and not get passed. I worked several times to get quarter guard to half. I also ended up in side mount at one point.
I think I need to start back at square one with guard passing and review the basics again. I've got the gist of it but I think there are some little technical things that I'm missing that make a world of difference.
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