Students: Tom, Justin, Lucas
For reference, this is week 1 on the curriculum sheets. So if you go to a beginner class every week for 21 weeks or until we hit straight ankle lock again you will have worked on all of the techniques you need to know for blue belt. Might be a good time to start using a note book for BJJ and take some notes every week.
Tips on techniques of the week:
- O-Soto Gari: Focus more on the upper body stuff, get them off balanced and their weight on the leg you are going to kick out.
- Americana: Eliminate as much space as you can while setting this up. Keep your elbow tight and so they can't do the elbow push escape.
- Side Control Escape: Big emphasis on keeping the knee high today across their belt line during the pass. Bridging without using your arms to push away was another important point I was making.
Rolling: Side Control, Free Rolling (Starting from Standing)
Rolled With: Tom, Justin
We did 3 minute rounds round robin and got everyone to roll with everyone. I was on a mission to get the americana from side mount but was unable to. It opened up other opportunities that I took, but I may need to reevaluate and figure out how to lock this down. It's an easy technique to teach and learn but I think setting it up is difficult because everyone knows about it.
In our free rolling since there was just 3 of us I asked if everyone wanted to start standing up for 5 minute rounds. It was good as I haven't done it in a while. I think I'll try to talk Jerad into more stand-up on Wednesdays since there's usually a lot of room to work. Had some good rolls and we all put in some good work.
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