Partner: Jess, Daniel
One of my favorite weeks in the beginner curriculum, mostly because we get to do positional sparring from half guard. Some pointers on half guard bottom in general:
- Always control the inside space
- Avoid being flat on your back
- Monitor their cross face arm
- Always be searching for an underhook with your elbow
- When getting an underhook try to get their armpit over your shoulder
- Use your legs, don't just triangle your legs and try to hold them in place. Use your legs to move your opponents around.
Rolling: Half Guard, Free Rolling
Rolled With: Jerad, Tom, Daniel, Ben
Jerad and I both gave each other a hard time. He joked that 2 minutes may not be enough time to pass my half guard.
With the other rolls I did my best to play a pretty straight forward game from top and bottom and didn't resort to deep half.
I showed Daniel how to get to butterfly half a d saw a light bulb form over his head when he I showed him that I plant my foot and move their leg over the top of it.
Office Hours Partner: Tom
We rolled a few times as I attempted to setup lasso guard and he didn't let me. I continued to be in open guard until setting up an arm drag. His sife control defenses are getting quite good and I had to use an unorthodox method to finish my baseball bat choke with my knee to assist.
We worked on cross guard for a while and to help him get the omoplata I had him exaggerate the movement a lot to get his hips up high enough to push the wrist into place.
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