Theme & Techniques: Closed Guard Triangle Setup, Mounted Triangle
Students: Sara, Bhuvana, Ben, Byrav
Was a little late to class due to a work "emergency" so we did an abbreviated warm-up and went right into triangles. Sara brought in her baby and I entertained her a few times during drilling and rolling. Such a good baby.
Everyone seemed to be familiar with the triangle setup, the only thing I really had to emphasize once they started drilling was to raise the hips to get the knee really high and the calf across the back of their neck more. I showed a couple setups that I have success with because I'm really only going to triangle off of a failed something else. So I showed failed armbar where they pull the arm out and mounted triangle Jerad style with the armbar option.
Rolling: Closed Guard, Free Rolling
Rolled With: Ben
Mia and I watched as everyone rolled in guard. I saw Ben and Bhuvana fought to hip bump each other and then Ben gave her some pointers on it. Bhuvana mentioned a few times that she was worried about opening her guard. I told her to roll with no regrets and that it's better to try and fail than just hold position and do nothing.
I rolled with Ben as everyone else had to leave. Had some good grip fighting exchanges and he defended quite a few things that I attempted. He attempted a shin on shin to single leg x but I was able to prevent it by pulling on his head a little bit. We went over getting the position and sweeping with it. We discovered a few things that helped him improve. He needed to fall to the side more like a hook sweep and then raise his hips a little bit more. Then transition to the full-x technical stand-up sweep or sweep with the single leg x.
Side note, I got pulled over on the way back to work for turning left on a yellow/orangish light. I was trying to think of a way to name drop that I had just been training Jiu-Jitsu with 2 officers or work Conan's name into the conversation. I decided against it since he just gave me a warning.
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