Theme & Techniques: Week #8 Technical Stand-up, Closed Guard: Hip Bump Sweep, Kimura
Partner: Jeff
Pretty small class today but we got our work in. Both Jesus and Jeff were in yesterday's class so we breezed through the instruction portion pretty quickly. Only had to give Jeff a couple of pointers on hip bump and kimura about body position. Also demonstrated how I would probably get a hand on the mat because it's not always going to work as perfectly as when we practice the wipe.
Rolling: Guard
Rolled With: Jeff, Jesus, Conan
My mission was to hit a hip bump sweep on Jeff. It didn't work out but came close a few times. When his default mode is moving forward with pressure it's difficult to trick him into going back. I did setup a kimura out of the deal so that's good. I did feel him try to go for over/under pass a few times and let him know since we've been working on it. From the top I tried my best to be calm and use structure to break the guard and pass.
Jesus did some good things and worked some spider guard and almost put me in a triangle from it. I did give him a few hints that he wanted to be more on his hip in spider guard and not centered up with his hips.
I felt like I was doing a cardio workout trying to maintain guard and then pass Conan's open guard. He turned it up today and was just ahead of me on a lot of the exchanges. It was super fun and a learning experience. I think the winner between us was generally who acted first and was persistent in what they wanted.
Office Hours Partner: Jesus, Conan
Jesus asked me about spider guard after class. I showed him the basic sweep from the knees and then said that I go to lasso generally if someone stands. Other's in our school are far better at spider than me. We worked on the lasso sweep a few times and I think he could work with it.
Conan let me drill some crucifix stuff and he gave me some different resistance than I'm used to which is good. He also seemed miserable when I went for some of the chokes. One thing that he helped me with was when I can't isolate their hand, I can put my foot on my knee until I can force their arm to be isolated.
Friday, March 31, 2017
Thursday, March 30, 2017
March 30th 2017 - Gi All Levels
Theme & Techniques: Week #8 Technical Stand-up, Closed Guard: Hip Bump Sweep, Kimura
Partner: Bob, Jeff
We did the hip bump a little more dynamic by pulling out partners posture down and then following them up as they postured.
Gave a lot of pointers to Bob and Jeff on getting their hips in the right position to use their body more for the kimura.
Rolling: Closed Guard, Free Rolling
Rolled With: Shane, Bob, Jeff
Had some good rolls. Shane's guard is getting pretty difficult to pass and he's not doing too bad from the top either. Jeff almost passed with the over/under pass that I showed him last week.
Bob and I had fun. I used the z-guard to sweep him and come to the top and said, "That's a sweep" to which he responded, "Nope, I was winning." So I asked him if he was a Trump supporter. Luckily he thought it was funny.
Office Hours Partner: Jeff
Went over over/under pass several times making sure he kept his hips down and head right to my thigh. I also showed him how I set it up from closed and open guard and no gi.
Partner: Bob, Jeff
We did the hip bump a little more dynamic by pulling out partners posture down and then following them up as they postured.
Gave a lot of pointers to Bob and Jeff on getting their hips in the right position to use their body more for the kimura.
Rolling: Closed Guard, Free Rolling
Rolled With: Shane, Bob, Jeff
Had some good rolls. Shane's guard is getting pretty difficult to pass and he's not doing too bad from the top either. Jeff almost passed with the over/under pass that I showed him last week.
Bob and I had fun. I used the z-guard to sweep him and come to the top and said, "That's a sweep" to which he responded, "Nope, I was winning." So I asked him if he was a Trump supporter. Luckily he thought it was funny.
Office Hours Partner: Jeff
Went over over/under pass several times making sure he kept his hips down and head right to my thigh. I also showed him how I set it up from closed and open guard and no gi.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
March 29th 2017 - Gi All Levels
Theme & Techniques: Week #8 Technical Stand-up, Closed Guard: Hip Bump Sweep, Kimura
Partner: Jess
For beginners I think this is the week where they get introduced to techniques that can flow into each other if the other fails. I use kimura to hip bump quite often if they defend.
Rolling: Closed Guard
Rolled With: John, Jess, Dave
Rolling went good. I was able to hit a hip bump and did some cross guard from the bottom. From the top I went for a few standing guard breaks. Had to work hard to avoid open guards from John and Jess. Dave prevented me from attempting a tozi pass.
Office Hours Partner: John, Jess
Worked with John on some deep half stuff that works for me. Went over waiter and shin sweeps.
Jess asked to work on de la Riva which I'm not good at but helped him with the basic sweep. We rolled a few times. He had a good foot lock attempt that I was just barely able to squeak out of. Once I got out I went for the back but ended up in side control. He was pretty gassed and I felt him give in a bit and pointed it by saying, "oh, he's giving up!" We discussed gassing out and working through it and the many times where I've been in situations where I wished the other guy would just hurry up and submit me.
Partner: Jess
For beginners I think this is the week where they get introduced to techniques that can flow into each other if the other fails. I use kimura to hip bump quite often if they defend.
Rolling: Closed Guard
Rolled With: John, Jess, Dave
Rolling went good. I was able to hit a hip bump and did some cross guard from the bottom. From the top I went for a few standing guard breaks. Had to work hard to avoid open guards from John and Jess. Dave prevented me from attempting a tozi pass.
Office Hours Partner: John, Jess
Worked with John on some deep half stuff that works for me. Went over waiter and shin sweeps.
Jess asked to work on de la Riva which I'm not good at but helped him with the basic sweep. We rolled a few times. He had a good foot lock attempt that I was just barely able to squeak out of. Once I got out I went for the back but ended up in side control. He was pretty gassed and I felt him give in a bit and pointed it by saying, "oh, he's giving up!" We discussed gassing out and working through it and the many times where I've been in situations where I wished the other guy would just hurry up and submit me.
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
March 28th 2017 - No Gi All Levels
Theme & Techniques: Butterfly Guard: Arm drag, Hook Sweep, Knee Tap
Partner: Richard (new guy), Nate
Worked with 2 of the new guys as they were partnering up with each other and would have been pretty lost left to their own devices. So I would do each technique to each of them to show what it feels like and then I coached them through doing the techniques to each other. One of the difficult things with new people is to not overwhelm them with too much details but still get them to do the technique generally correct. They did fine for their first time with butterfly.
Rolling: Butterfly Gaurd
Rolled With: Greg, Bob, Richard
Felt pretty good about some of my attempts to pass and sweep Greg, although I didn't accomplish much. There was a deep half waiter attempt that was close and a few over/under passes that were almost there (or were they).
Bob gave a good couple of rolls. We had some good back and forth and he said he liked rolling with me in no gi better because it was more forgiving.
Rolled with Richard last and after sweeping and passing a few times I helped him out with some things that he should do. He thanked me for helping him out today.
Office Hours Partner: Greg, Justin
Greg asked if I'd do another round of butterfly and of course I would. It went a lot worse for me than our earlier rounds. He heel hooked me most of the time. There were a couple of times where I thought I was getting somewhere but it just led to the ankle lock positions. Asked a quick question about crucifix and they suck your leg up. Greg told me to triangle when that happens which isn't something I thought of before.
Rolled with Justin a few times and he didn't kick me in the head today. We had some good exchanges and I found myself in positions to do rolling back takes. I didn't succeed at them all but felt good about my timing. He wanted to work on some half guard and did well from there. I gave him some tips on working with his legs a little more instead of just locking them up.
Partner: Richard (new guy), Nate
Worked with 2 of the new guys as they were partnering up with each other and would have been pretty lost left to their own devices. So I would do each technique to each of them to show what it feels like and then I coached them through doing the techniques to each other. One of the difficult things with new people is to not overwhelm them with too much details but still get them to do the technique generally correct. They did fine for their first time with butterfly.
Rolling: Butterfly Gaurd
Rolled With: Greg, Bob, Richard
Felt pretty good about some of my attempts to pass and sweep Greg, although I didn't accomplish much. There was a deep half waiter attempt that was close and a few over/under passes that were almost there (or were they).
Bob gave a good couple of rolls. We had some good back and forth and he said he liked rolling with me in no gi better because it was more forgiving.
Rolled with Richard last and after sweeping and passing a few times I helped him out with some things that he should do. He thanked me for helping him out today.
Office Hours Partner: Greg, Justin
Greg asked if I'd do another round of butterfly and of course I would. It went a lot worse for me than our earlier rounds. He heel hooked me most of the time. There were a couple of times where I thought I was getting somewhere but it just led to the ankle lock positions. Asked a quick question about crucifix and they suck your leg up. Greg told me to triangle when that happens which isn't something I thought of before.
Rolled with Justin a few times and he didn't kick me in the head today. We had some good exchanges and I found myself in positions to do rolling back takes. I didn't succeed at them all but felt good about my timing. He wanted to work on some half guard and did well from there. I gave him some tips on working with his legs a little more instead of just locking them up.
Saturday, March 25, 2017
March 25th 2017 - Open Mat
Open Mat
Rolled With: Derek, Josh J, Ryan (Visitor), Justin
Game Plan: Crucifix
Derek: We did some drilling on our respective techniques. He said that my z-guard felt better than the last time I drilled with him.
When we rolled it started out well for me, I mostly kept control and was in good position to attack from turtle and side control. I couldn't get him to tap though and eventually I started to gas after several failed attacks and he eventually double legged me out of turtle and transitioned into side control and threw on an americana.
Josh: Had some great rolls with Josh. He's been working on smash pass and did everything right except get the underhook. At another point he had me in the bottom of side control but felt hesitant to attack. We talked about it afterward and I gave him the suggestion of switching sides to setup attacks. At one point I was able to setup crucifix but ended up with back mount and his arm trapped.
Ryan: He was in town visiting a friend and trains elsewhere. We rolled no gi and it can be exciting figuring out a new person and their game. He hasn't been training for as long as I have, so while he did present some challenges for the most part I controlled the rolls.
I went over north/south choke with him and my setup. Also some knee slide stuff.
Justin: He asked me to roll before calling it a day. We started standing since people were clearing out. He's so low to the ground though and I had a tough time making anything happen on the feet. He was able to get me down with double and single legs while I threatened guillotines went for guard.
On the ground I was being pretty flowy and playful until I was in a donkey guardish position and Justin accidentally heel kicked me in the jaw. I was fine and my mouth guard saved my teeth but it was a hard shot.
On our last roll I was attacking from turtle and was able to goad him into reaching between my legs for the crucifix. He kept a tight hold and put his hands together but I was able to weasel my hand around his neck. Crucifix is really becoming a go-to position for me.
Rolled With: Derek, Josh J, Ryan (Visitor), Justin
Game Plan: Crucifix
Derek: We did some drilling on our respective techniques. He said that my z-guard felt better than the last time I drilled with him.
When we rolled it started out well for me, I mostly kept control and was in good position to attack from turtle and side control. I couldn't get him to tap though and eventually I started to gas after several failed attacks and he eventually double legged me out of turtle and transitioned into side control and threw on an americana.
Josh: Had some great rolls with Josh. He's been working on smash pass and did everything right except get the underhook. At another point he had me in the bottom of side control but felt hesitant to attack. We talked about it afterward and I gave him the suggestion of switching sides to setup attacks. At one point I was able to setup crucifix but ended up with back mount and his arm trapped.
Ryan: He was in town visiting a friend and trains elsewhere. We rolled no gi and it can be exciting figuring out a new person and their game. He hasn't been training for as long as I have, so while he did present some challenges for the most part I controlled the rolls.
I went over north/south choke with him and my setup. Also some knee slide stuff.
Justin: He asked me to roll before calling it a day. We started standing since people were clearing out. He's so low to the ground though and I had a tough time making anything happen on the feet. He was able to get me down with double and single legs while I threatened guillotines went for guard.
On the ground I was being pretty flowy and playful until I was in a donkey guardish position and Justin accidentally heel kicked me in the jaw. I was fine and my mouth guard saved my teeth but it was a hard shot.
On our last roll I was attacking from turtle and was able to goad him into reaching between my legs for the crucifix. He kept a tight hold and put his hands together but I was able to weasel my hand around his neck. Crucifix is really becoming a go-to position for me.
Friday, March 24, 2017
March 24th 2017 - MMA
Theme & Techniques: Thai Pad Combos
Partner: Mike
I don't have much experience holding pads especially the Thai variety. I felt bad for Mike as I had difficulty timing strikes and putting the pad in the right position. I did get better toward the end. It's pretty amazing when Henry and Nick do some.
We did some jabs into an elbow strike followed by knees and finally a round house. Mike was good at pushing off after the knees. I could improve my timing and distance control quite a bit.
Sparring: Simulated Matches, Stand-up Sparring
Sparred With: Clint, Mike, Cody
Cody and Mike did 2 rounds each with a couple opponents and I was Mike's 2nd round. Unfortunately he wore MMA gloves and I wore 16 oz ones so when we hit the ground I couldn't do shit.
After that we did a few rounds. I let loose a few times and tried some more dynamic kicks, but also had some moments of fatigue where I needed to guard up.
Partner: Mike
I don't have much experience holding pads especially the Thai variety. I felt bad for Mike as I had difficulty timing strikes and putting the pad in the right position. I did get better toward the end. It's pretty amazing when Henry and Nick do some.
We did some jabs into an elbow strike followed by knees and finally a round house. Mike was good at pushing off after the knees. I could improve my timing and distance control quite a bit.
Sparring: Simulated Matches, Stand-up Sparring
Sparred With: Clint, Mike, Cody
Cody and Mike did 2 rounds each with a couple opponents and I was Mike's 2nd round. Unfortunately he wore MMA gloves and I wore 16 oz ones so when we hit the ground I couldn't do shit.
After that we did a few rounds. I let loose a few times and tried some more dynamic kicks, but also had some moments of fatigue where I needed to guard up.
March 24th 2017 - Gi All Levels
Theme & Techniques: Week# 7 Seio Nage, Back Mount Lapel Choke, Guillotine from Guard
Students: Jess, Jeff, Max
Did some different warm-ups today. Max is pretty new so I didn't want to do drilling. I had us do some takedown fitins, grip fighting, and clinch work. We had a lot of time to work on techniques so I added both the wing choke and we looked at bow and arrow.
Looking back probably the tip I gave the most often was concerning the wrists and canting them out as you choke. With the guillotine it was about moving the hips back enough to make space.
Rolling: Back Mount, Closed Guard
Rolled With: Everyone
Had some good rolls, Max is pretty green so after a few times of executing the technique of the day I helped him defend some stuff. I had a conversation with Jess about this after class and how I usually deal with someone that is pretty new. I'll usually go for what we worked on during class a couple of times, mostly to show that it works and for my benefit of practicing it. If it's too easy I'll then help them defend what I'm doing and give some basic pointers.
The rest of the rolling was good. Controlled Jeff from the back and worked on maintaining the back. In guard with Jess I worked a little cross guard and 2 on 1. When I was on top, my goal was to stay out of his spider guard, so I stayed kneeling and worked for pressure passes.
Office Hours Partner: Jeff, Jess
Went over the over/under pass for both of them and showed some details as they both worked on it with me a little previously. Jess and I got a good roll in. We ended up in turtle again and I tried for crucifix as I'm wanting to do. While he was defending I was able to trap his arm as I went for back mount hook and setup the sliding lapel choke.
Students: Jess, Jeff, Max
Did some different warm-ups today. Max is pretty new so I didn't want to do drilling. I had us do some takedown fitins, grip fighting, and clinch work. We had a lot of time to work on techniques so I added both the wing choke and we looked at bow and arrow.
Looking back probably the tip I gave the most often was concerning the wrists and canting them out as you choke. With the guillotine it was about moving the hips back enough to make space.
Rolling: Back Mount, Closed Guard
Rolled With: Everyone
Had some good rolls, Max is pretty green so after a few times of executing the technique of the day I helped him defend some stuff. I had a conversation with Jess about this after class and how I usually deal with someone that is pretty new. I'll usually go for what we worked on during class a couple of times, mostly to show that it works and for my benefit of practicing it. If it's too easy I'll then help them defend what I'm doing and give some basic pointers.
The rest of the rolling was good. Controlled Jeff from the back and worked on maintaining the back. In guard with Jess I worked a little cross guard and 2 on 1. When I was on top, my goal was to stay out of his spider guard, so I stayed kneeling and worked for pressure passes.
Office Hours Partner: Jeff, Jess
Went over the over/under pass for both of them and showed some details as they both worked on it with me a little previously. Jess and I got a good roll in. We ended up in turtle again and I tried for crucifix as I'm wanting to do. While he was defending I was able to trap his arm as I went for back mount hook and setup the sliding lapel choke.
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