Theme & Techniques: Koshi Guruma, Triangle from Closed Guard
Partner: Morgan
Worked on the Uchi Mata with Dave before class started. Felt pretty good trying to generate the turn of the body that I wanted. The step back and lift also felt good with the neck hip throw, I focused on trying to catch Morgan as he was coming up.
Triangle from guard is always one of those things that I know in theory but have a hard time completing in rolling. During drilling I can choke someone and make it really tight, but always have a problem closing the triangle and controlling their posture during rolling and usually the omoplata is right there so I will abandon it for that.
Rolling: Guard Position (4 x 2 min), Free Rolling (4 min)
Rolled With: Morgan, Ben, Robert
Morgan was able to sweep me today as I defended his triangle attempt I became over extended and went to my back to claim some type of guard. I probably should have gave him the triangle instead in the spirit of learning the technique that we practiced. Ben did fine and stopped me from doing what I wanted to do a couple times. However, with one of the sweeps I felt like he gave up a little too soon. From the top I hit a few omoplata sweeps but it was interesting that I was getting my legs kind of tangled up afterward. I think I just need to sink into side control faster rather than wait there.
Rolled lightly with Robert as he is cutting weight for a fight. I ended up in turtle at one point and did a granby into triangle position. He postured way back though and I didn't even get close to locking it up. Otherwise we went back and forth position wise and it seemed pretty smooth rolling.
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