I was able to make a rare appearance to a Tuesday class since I took Monday and Tuesday off this week. It ended up being a decent size class with Conan teaching with a focus on the double unders guard pass. It's one of my goto passes. Before class started David called me out and said that we were going to roll during open mat. Of course I accepted.
After we had a quick warm-up continuing on the theme of several reps of Jiu-jitsu related individual exercises Conan started us with learning how to execute the pass. From there we learned several tips and defenses starting with trying to hook their thighs and the shoulder submission from there. The next technique that we worked on moved from hooking their thighs to kind of sprawl position and hooking their arm and then rolling over the top to crucifix. Which was cool.
We broke into king of the mat with 3 groups with the starting position of double unders. From there we were trying to pass/sweep/submit. I had a few successes, but for the most part Conan, Ray, and Adam were the kings. I was able to out wrestle Ray one time and pass him, but it was a short lived victory as he was my partner again right after that. Conan toyed with me, making me feel like I could complete the pass, but I couldn't get the right pressure and ended up on the bottom somehow.
After we bowed out, I tried to get in a match with David and I with only five minutes remaining. We started from our knees and I accepted guard and moved to closed guard. As we were working Conan and Ray made us call it a day. So we have some unfinished business. There's been talk on Facebook of a 3 man super fight round robin tournament between myself, David, and Mike. I'll keep you posted with the date/time, location, ticket prices and odds.
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