I succeeded in rolling with everyone this morning. We had a visiting purple belt, Eric from Colorado, that was in town for the holiday and found our school. Seemed like a very laid back, cool guy as well as skillful. Also in attendance were Jerad, Fuji, Mike, Bauer, and Brian.
I had a lot of trouble from bottom side control and knee on belly today. I rarely escaped. So I need to work harder to get to sweep and pass guard and stay off of the bottom.
After I rolled with Mike a couple of times we did some spider guard drills and he gave me some pointers. I've been avoiding spider guard since my injury so I'm a little bit behind everyone else that has been working on it. It was quite informative and made me want to focus on the position for a while.
I rolled with Eric last and it was actually fun and informative. He took it easy on me. I was able to do some deep half guard to prevent his mount once and tried to attack the back. The second time I tried deep half he caught me with a kimura on my inside arm. Need to focus on burying that. After he beat me a couple times we discussed the cross grab guard to omaplata sweep that I saw him do to Bauer. I got some major pointers on this that will help me immensely.
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