Having just lost my regular week day training partner (Marcus) I was all over this idea. I've now had 3 lunchtime sessions with Tom and I've gotta say, it's well cool having a regular lunch time training partner again. We've been teaching each other some stuff starting pretty basic. Tom's been showing me some cool trips and over shoulder throws - I was already reasonably educated in some of it but Tom's really help me get the techniques nailed down and we're doing tons of sparring to help with my Bjj standing starts. For my part of the bargain I've been starting him off fairly basic too, showing how to get himself out of tough situations to begin. A basic flower sweep from closed guard, and Upa escape from being mounted and the bridge and shrimp to guard recovery from side control bottom. I also chucked in a couple of basic finishes, Americana, Kimura, Arm bar.
In all it's really been helping me with both my standing game - which has needed a bit of work lately - and my ability to teach and transfer techniques to other people. This will prove invaluable to me for the future as I have every intention of teaching classes one day. I will start to once again blog my "Two Man Training", maybe under a different name, I haven't decided yet.
As for this week at Ian's class, the numbers were a little lower than previous weeks but there's still the regular faces coming in which is good.
Instructor: Ian Rossiter (Checkmat Black Belt)
Warm Up:
The usual laps of the mat with arm wind milling, knee ups, butt kicks and side steps. Then on to arm, neck and shoulder stretching, Squat (3 x 10), push ups (3 x 10) and sit ups (3 x 10). We finished up with some leg stretching and the weird torso twisty thing where you sit down and turn you legs one way and twist your bother 'tother.
Techniques:
(I will describe the techniques from the side I initially learnt them on for ease of description).
This week Ian started us off with the Loop Choke from Closed Guard. With the opponent in your closed guard attempting to posture up and break your guard, you reach up to grab deep inside his right collar with your right hand. You then pull him in close to you (your legs can help with this) and wrap your left arm over his shoulder and around his back, tucking the hand into the crook of your other arm. Ensure that the wrist of the hand holding his collar is taught rather than limp and turn the whole hold anti clockwise as if it was like a steering wheel and you were turning left.
I drilled this and all other techniques with Rich Presley. We've found with this move, that the hold when applied right comes on very strong but even if it doesn't come on you can fall back with using it to sweep your opponent over so you can gain a top control position. I have used this in sparring many times before.
Next up was another method of breaking down a postured opponent in your guard (someone might get a bit suspicious that these moves were geared at his recent disappointment in competition). Once again the guy's in your closed guard and again your get the right cross collar grip. This time though you fall out to the left side, pulling the opponent with you and using your legs to escort him down also. From there you just need to cross grab him at the left shoulder with your free left hand (going over the top of your other arm) and finish as for a standard cross choke, pulling your arms in tight to you body and letting the angle that is formed with your arms as they go around your ribs bring the pressure on.
A handy variation on the cross choke there and a good way to break that posture.
Next up we re-did the Rickson Arm Bar from last week. Handy. Means less typing.
After that we were shown a Figure Four Arm Lock from Guard. We started off by drilling the way to get the Figure Four Arm Lock from standing. Your opponent places a hand on your shoulder (Rich's right on my left shoulder) to which you overwrap it with your left arm by sweeping your arm inside, up, over the top of his arm and then around and back under, clasping the arm tight to your side. Your forearm needs to be quite high up and his arm. With your right hand you press it against his right shoulder, then grab the wrist of that arm with your left hand (to form the figure four shape with your arms). To apply pressure you push on his shoulder while extending that arm and leaning your body slightly back to hyper extend the trapped arm. Unpleasant.
This is basically exactly the same as from the guard. As long as you manage to get an overwrap on the arm, with your forearm sufficiently far enough up the arm, the move finishes itself.
A little bonus for the lesson that Ian showed me and Rich, was a cool little way to apply a kind of "Elbow Hook" move from a blocked triangle choke attempt. You've basically got the guy in an amazing triangle set up (with your right leg over his shoulder and your left closed over it for the pressure. His right arm is inside). From here, the guy has blocked it by wrapping his arm down and around your left leg. However, this leaves his elbow sticking out and exposed. All you need to do is use your left arm to wrap around the end of the exposed elbow (from under side to above), securing it with a gable grip at the top. You then turn your arm outward (similar to how you would for a heel hook) to put on a shite load of pain and finish the move.
We were both pretty blown away and chuffed with this technique and I can image it will come in handy in the future.
Sparring:
This week I sparred with Rich, Chris Whiting, Old Rob and Chris Cook. Surprisingly, the only one of them I didn't tap out was Old Rob who showed some amazing defence, first from being mounted, then from being rear mounted. Very impressive.
So that's it for another very good week of training. Next week, I have been asked by Ian to take part of the class in his absence (he's on holiday) which should be pretty cool as it's the first time I've instructed a class of people. I very much look forward to it.
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