There were a lot of students in attendance yesterday to prepare for next week, but I only ended up rolling with Ray, Jerad, and Mike. Also in attendance were Greg, Will, Bauer, Adam, Brian, and Fuji. I went back and forth between discussing the testing material and grappling. I think I have a handle on everything that is on the testing paper now and can do them with some relative proficiency.
I went with Jerad first. Started off well with passing his guard right away but all it took was one mistake and I was on the bottom. Not sure what that mistake was but I spent the rest of the fight in side control. With a little more scrambling I was tapping to a reverse arm triangle choke. Then Jerad and I wondered over and talked
Ray also played possum a bit at first and allowed me to take a good position and even attempt some submissions. I avoided his deep half as much as I could but eventually he wiggled himself there. After some defense in side control he was able to tap me with a kimura and pull it away from my body. I tapped maybe a little prematurely because he told me he didn't have it completely locked up. Ray also was a huge help with some pointers on osoto gari. This was huge because I think I finally understand how it works.
Mike and I trained no-gi and we had quite a few good battles. We spent some time in 50/50 as I did my best to defend and also attack ankle locks. I'm still pretty clueless in this position, but I felt like I did better than usual. I attempted a guillotine and had a good north/south choke for a little bit too but couldn't finish them. He got me a few times with a kimura and a pretty good inverted triangle that he pushed my neck into with a straight choke. It's hard to describe but it was genius.
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