Ray taught class yesterday with a focus on attacking the ankles from 50/50 guard. Besides ending up there with Mike a couple of times I have had zero experience in the position. We went over a couple of ways to get the heel hook and a compression lock on the Achilles and then my favorite the Toe Hold. I was a little worried about hurting my knees but I didn't really feel any discomfort besides just fear for being hurt. I worked with Adam on this and it went pretty well because we were both quick to tap when the lock was right.
We then did some position drills from open guard to work into the leg lock position or pass. Which then fed into some king of the mat guard passing with two groups. Adam and Ray pretty much dominated. I can't wait until I feel 100% again and start working on my guard passing. I came close to passing a couple of times or so I thought.
During open mat I went with Jordan for a little while and took it pretty easy. I mostly just played guard and found myself focusing on the hip heist and kimura combo. He and I took turns trying to submit Ray and failing.
I really have no answer for Ray as many of the things that I usually do to people have no affect on him. His head and neck make it difficult to choke him and anytime I felt like I was going to take his back he'd ankle lock me. I did do some good things from the bottom and continued exploring some different wristlocks and some attempts at straight arm lock. I made it to deep half a couple of times but lost him by going out the back door like Mike has been complaining about. We discussed deep half a bit which helped. I got some good ideas for technique changes that I'll be trying to implement.
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