Not an official logo, I've just been fucking about.
With the addition of Glenn Cutter to the fold I am no longer the most "experienced" blue belt in the club and as Ian took his time getting changed due to some extensive tattoo work he's had done (that very day, the nutter), Glenn took us for the warm up.
Which was; Laps of the mat, touching hands to the floor as we go around at Glen's direction. Butt kicks, Knee ups. Upper body stretches. 40 x Sit ups, 40 x Push ups, 30 x Sit ups. Legs Stretches. It sounds like a brief warm up but it really wasn't and frankly, as the heat had risen quite dramatically too, we were all pretty much sweating our asses off by the end of it. Yeah, Cheers Glenn :o|
Techniques:
As there's been a spate of newer guys joining the team recently, Ian started us off with a nice basic Upa drill. You start laying on you back with your knees bent so your heels can be drawn up to touch your butt (feet flat on the floor). You then bridge up on your feet and one shoulder, turning your head toward that direction and bringing your arms up in that direction (as if you were pushing a guy up and over). You then switch your legs, bring your nearside leg (the one on the side you're turning toward) under the other and turn your upper body so you end on all fours. We all did this a few times.
We then did the drill with a partner. The guy has you mounted, you pick which side you're turning over toward and secure his arm on that side. You also bring your foot on that side out so it's positioned outside of his leg so it's stops him from basing out. You now use the Upa movement to turn him over and land in his guard. Always been a favourite mount escape of mine. I drilled it with Glenn.
Ian continued the technique on in to turn it into a sequence so the next technique was the Upa to Guard then Smash Pass. So once you've Upa'd to land in your opponents guard this technique works under the premise that the guy would've instantly closed guard. First off, to break the guard, Ian favours the knee up ass guard break. Grab one of your opponent's arms at the wrist and push it down hard against his hips. Push down against his hips with your other hand too. Now push your other side knee (other side to the secured arm) hard against his butt and step out and to the side with your other leg. You can now sit back, taking your weight with your other leg, enabling your back to put force on his crossed legs, while the knee pushing against his rear forces him to break his closed guard. From there you reach back behind one of his legs and press the leg up toward him uncomfortably, reaching that arm across to grab his opposite side collar. It can help to distract the opponent if you grab quite deep and press the forearm against his neck. Now push your weight forward against his raised leg until the point where he feels uncomfortable enough to try and push back with his leg, by which point you can duck your head to slip the leg and come up in side control.
I drilled this move and the rest of the class with Rich Presley.
Next move in the sequence is one I use quite a lot to transition from Side Control to Mount. You've blasted passed his guard with your smash pass to get to side control. Now, ensuring you have good downward pressure on your opponent to keep him in place, you switch your legs to face down toward his feet so your bottom leg is pressed against his nearside leg. You can now grab his gi pants at the far knee and do a high kick up and over to get to mount.
With that being the end of the sequence we could do the whole lot against our training partner then he could do exactly the same to back as one continuous drill. A very good sequence that teaches you a way to defend from a poor position, attack a guard and transition to a highly advantageous position. This drill is fantastic for the newer guys to get down to memory as it gives them a good option from a few positions.
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Next up Ian ran us through some Wrist Grip Battles Techniques from a standing position. Standing face to face, your opponent grabs your wrist and you escape. If the guy grabs your wrist with his hand down, you pull your arm down and away to break his grip easily. It he takes an upward grip, you pull the arm up and away (as if hitch hiking). If he takes a double hand grip (although, why would he? you have a free hand to pulp his face with then), you reach inside with your other hand to grab your secure hand and pull it up and through hard. These grip break techniques should be virtually fool proof unless your being gripped by a guy with gorilla like strength. Me and Rich had no trouble breaking each others grips with the correct technique.
From the we moved on to a Standing Head Lock Defence - Trip to Side Control Arm Bar. Your opponent has you gripped around the neck in a side head lock. No concern from being choked out with this position but you're very limited as to what you can do from it while he has the option to try and repeatedly punch you in the face. Your first move must be (while defending your face with your outside hand) to reach behind him and grab his punching arm and pull it into him to hamper his ability to punch you. You can now stretch your near side leg out long behind him and use your free hand to pull at the crook of his near side knee to upset his balance and trip him over your extended leg.
We drilled this first part a bit before being moved on.
From there (on floor in a sort of side control with opponents back presented but still in headlock position), you push your far side knee (knee the furthest from the opponents head) into his back and use your forearm to press against his neck, first pressing down into the neck, then scooping upward to apply tight pressure on his carotid artery, making him quickly release the hold.It's just a quick movement from there to secure his arm and pass your near side leg over the opponent's head, then fall back for the really tight arm bar. Nice move, comes on really tight.
Rolling:
As I'm writing this a few days later I'll struggle with a full blow by blow account.
I rolled with Rich first. Pulled guard, hit him with a sweep to side, then transitioned to mount. Bucked the escape to land in S Mount and went for the Bow and Arrow. He managed to shake off my first attempt as I couldn't get the leg over the shoulder and he had a good protective grip at his lapel. I switched back to S Mount though, reset and went for it again. Got the leg around on the second try and got the tap.
Rolled next with Marcus who issued me with the bad news that he can't train on Monday and Tuesday lunchtimes :o( While we were starting off our roll I was in between berating him for this and trying to find ways we could get a little session in somehow (there isn't a way). I managed to get to a side control position with my knee up against his nearside, then we stopped for a second so I could ask him a question about Monday. He answered the question, we then slapped hands to continue and I fell backward for a cheeky little arm bar. Marcus is under the impression that all the talking and the clap of hands to restart was just a set up for the arm bar. What ever. He probably deserves it for lunching me out on Monday and Tuesday ;o) Hehehe.
Next up was Tom Hill. Tom's a strong lad for his size and always put everything into his sparring. Traded guards and sweeps but other than that the roll was pretty uneventful. Tom rolled hard and managed to stymie all my attacks well. Fair play to him.
Last up was one of the newer guys, Cameron Rothery. Cameron didn't have a gi on but I knew that he has done some MMA on the Wednesday night classes down at Sweat FA and I asked him whether he had much experience, to which he said yes. We than clapped hands to start and he attempted to dive straight toward me in a bull rush style to which I was easily able to redirect him using an arm drag and then take his back. I was quickly able to tap him out there with a Bow and Arrow. We reset and he started in pretty much the same way. This time I just knocked his arms out of the way and Guillotined him. After that I realised that he maybe had less experience than he'd originally made out so I showed him a few things. I particular how to start a sparring session without charging straight at the guy like a bull. It went well and Cameron seemed quite thankful.
At the end we had some photos taken by Glenn (hence why he's not in it).
There was a big buzz after the lesson too, everyone feeling pretty chuffed with how the club is coming along. Good stuff.
Until next week (it's now this week) ¬m/
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