Ray taught class yesterday and we worked on some reverse de la rivas. I worked with Julian for some of the warm-up. He is an MMA fighter and has a really great attitude. We did some transition drill with reverse de la rivas/x-guard/butterfly guard. We worked on a lot of the same de la rivas things we've been working on lately, the back take, and the sweep. We finished with a couple of variations for the bow and arrow choke.
I rolled with David first for open mat. He pointed out that I shouldn't be laying flat on my back in guard so I tried a little bit to get off to a side and attack more. I was able to half way sweep him and put him into guard and got the opportunity to see what he does from this position. He does a really good job of putting my arm in danger making me concentrate on other things rather than escaping his guard. I will make this my goal to improve my movement and activity in guard. I can't remember how he submitted me, it might have been an armbar from guard.
Jared was next, and like usual I had a difficult time with his guard. I defended some of his sweep attempts and the kimura that he's caught me with from half guard a couple of times. Eventually he was able to get me on my back in guard. He recall him standing up to break it and I felt like I didn't know what to do. I finally tried to get my feet into reverse de la rivas but failed. The rest of the time I spent defending side control either the far side armbar or the darce. It seemed that whatever I tried was met with some type of submission attempt. He eventually got me with an armbar.
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