Wednesday, October 11, 2017

October 6th & 7th - Cole Franson Seminar


Cole Franson is a brown belt that trains at Tinguinha HQ and is an avid competitor.  Check out some of his matches on youtube.  Greg brought him out to give us a taste of a different style of BJJ from a high level competitor. 

I didn't take as good of notes as I normally do for a seminar so a lot of this is from memory and I probably forgot some of it.  I plan on using much of this as I enjoy guillotines.  I'd like to get good at berimbolos some day but it just hasn't been a focus of mine yet.  I did enjoy the lasso stuff that we did though.

Cole ended up rolling a lot and he looked smooth and always in control.  For my experience rolling with him, I didn't ever feel like I got him in a position that I wanted him in.  I attempted my over/under pass and I couldn't push his foot down between my legs.  I put him in deep half and I couldn't hold him tight to my shoulder.  When I tried to pass his guard he inverted and kind of walked back up into me and reguarded.   So I have a lot to learn still, duh.

We had an unfortunate accident Friday night as my buddy Craig dislocated his elbow while posting on a scissor sweep.  We got him taken care of at the hospital where they relocated it and doped him up a bit. Then back home safely that night. 

I'm in the background wishing I was rolling instead
For some reason we look more happy than we should in this photo.  Probably the drugs



Friday

Techniques Covered:
  • Guillotine with chinstrap grip 
    • Headlock position
    • They defend by grabbing wrist, butterfly hook sweep
  • Situp guard: push head to the outside back step sit pass
    • Get to Side Control
  • Opponent does Side control escape with underhook
    • Fall into Guillotine as they situp
    • If they don't come up, mount
    • If they roll the other way, anaconda

Saturday

Techniques Covered:
  • Reverse De La Riva Kiss of the Dragon backtake
    •  If they lean back, waterfall to back
    • If they lean forward, hold hips to get up
    • If they sit balanced and grab feet, grab higher on their lapel and butterfly sweep to one side
  • De La Riva Berimbolo Back Take
  • Lasso
    • Invert to Sweep
    • If they switch legs, DLR sweep to invert to omoplata