Venue: Sweat FA, Weston Super Mare, Uk.
Instructor: Dan Foster.
Warm Up:
We started of with some laps of the mat and some sprinting.
We then did stretches upper and lower body.
And then finished with Squats/Press ups/Crunches. x15 x3 (if that makes any sense)
Techniques:
Following on from what I did last week, Dan demo'd another closed guard break. From kneeling in your opponent's guard you put your hands under his arm pits and jump to your feet. You need to keep the hand positions (underarms) without leaning to far forward. From there you put your right leg forward into the guys ass (coccyx) and then knee down, pushing forward with the straight arms at the arm pits, breaking the guard. A good move but being short of arm I struggled. If you are the same it's worth altering the straight arm point to the belt.
Next up was the figure four arm control from side. This is a technique I have been using for ages. I think it's great because of all the options to finish it gives you. You start with a good side control on your opponent, laying across him so your head is on his left side. The guy underneath tries to start his escape by getting his right arm underneath you to control your hips. Using your left leg to push that arm inwards you then flatten it across his body using your bodyweight. If at this point you haven't already got your left arm passed behind his head (depends what your favoured side control position is) you should now work to get it there. Now using a combination of your body and right arm to push it up into position, you want his right arm roughly around his upper left pec. From this position you can grab his right wrist with your left hand (keeping your arm behind his head) and pull on that arm so it almost looks like the guy is trying to RNC himself with his own arm. This should turn the guy slightly onto his left side so you are able to get your left under his back. You then pass your right arm up under his upper right arm to grab a hold of your own left wrist. This is the figure four control. Now with your right leg you either put the knee into his right side to help with control or you step it over his leg to form your first hook (for if you're doing a rear mount transition/finish).
Finishes you can quickly transition to from here are:
Kimura
Arm Bar
Americana
Ezekial Choke (side or rear)
Half Nelson Choke
Bow and Arrow Choke
Head and Arm Triangle
Basically this is a really good set up which supplies many different possible finishing combos or you can just use it to easily transition to mount or to back.
Dan then ran us through a quick drill which is a good one for both training partners. The guy on the bottom of side control has to try and work his offside arm to underhook the top guys leg side arm so he can attempt to shift hips out as if coming up to knees to turn the opponent over. The top guy however drills to switch sides when the bottom guy gets the underhook in, by walking his legs around the other guy's head to come round to for the control at his other side. Rinse and repeat and it's quite a work out to drill this one for about 10 + goes each. Phew.
Sparring:
This week I rolled with Luke Brown, Rob Morris, Chris Whiting and Chris Cook. I got a couple of taps out of that lot but nothing special and I was particularly impressed with everyone's survival skills and instincts this week. Especially Chris Whiting who I seemed to be attacking from advantageous positions for ages (nearly two rounds actually as he took over from half way through Rob's round) and didn't get anything on him. Damn good defense by Chris.
As I mentioned above, sorry about the hastiness with which this has been written this week. At least I'll be getting a decent bit of training in next week in the run up to Easter.
Bring on the pain ¬m/
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