So when Thursday came around for Ian's new class at the brand new Warrior Gym in Worle, (nr Weston Super Mare) Uk, I was chomping at the bit. I ventured down to the new venue, a fully matted out warehouse with a boxing ring in one corner, which is conveniently just 300 metres or so down the road from my house, for at first lesson in our new home.
For this week however, Ian wasn't feeling at his best so although he was present, Glenn Cutter enthusiastically took over the class.
After the standard beastly Glenn warm up, he ran us through some Knee on Belly Escapes. The first was where you grab the foot of the opponent's KOB leg with your nearside hand and grab the arm or collar with the other hand. Escape your hips a bit so your legs are off at an angle to him then pull your legs in towards you and kick out hard while pulling on the leg and pushing on the upper body so you can sit upright, dropping the opponent down on his back so you can come up into side control.
The second escape is where you reach under the shin of the opponent's KOB leg and then thread the arm through the gap at the crock of the leg and reach inside to his knee. If you find it difficult to put your arm fully through you may need to escape hips to get yourself at such an angle to do so. Put your other hand on this knee also and kick forward once again to take him over to side control. With this one you need ensure you bring your arm out quickly after or you can be caught in a nasty arm lock or bicep crush. Neither would be entirely legal in comp but would rely on the ref seeing the infraction.
The last one was a tasty little recovery to half guard. The guys has knee on belly so you push your nearside hand against his offside leg and your offside hand reaches inside and grabs his KOB foot. You then bring your feet in tight to your butt and bump up (as if doing an upa) to bump the pressure from his KOB, giving you time to push his leg in between your legs for the half guard recovery. Nifty little move and definitely the simplest of the three.
Changing tack completely, Glenn then demo'd a couple of takedowns. The first one was a drag takedown. You take a grip of the opponent's right sleeve with your left hand and a grip of his right collar with your right hand. You furl the collar up in your hand so your arm is pointing directly upwards and your elbow is driving into him. Then simultaneously you pull on the arm whilst driving forward with the elbow/collar grip combo and turning left away to drag the guy round and down. A cool little move that will earn you 2 points in Bjj but sod all in Judo apparently. Fair play. Good technique though.
The next variation on it is basically exactly the same but the opponent is letting themselves be dragged so you turn into it then put your right leg out (bent) behind you for the trip takedown. Great skills.
So that was it for another week. Gotta find somewhere a bit stable for us to train on the week days now but that's talk for another time. ¬m/
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