Once again I'm writing this one a good week or so after the day. I've been getting more training in again during the week now which is a huge bonus although it's in our chilly new Warrior Gym in Worle. The gym isn't that bad if others have been training in it and warmed the place up but when you're the first person in of a day the floor is bitterly cold. Still you can't whinge when it's an opportunity to train. Which reminds me, I need to start writing the stuff down that we drill in during these lunchtimes sessions cause we're really covering a lot of good stuff.
Anyway, on to the Thursday class at Warrior Gym, Worle, and Ian (Rossiter, Black Belt - Checkmat) was going a bit old school self defense to begin this class. Starting with defense for a standard side headlock (school boy style move). For the first your opponent has you in a standard headlock using his right arm wrapped around your head at the side of him. With your left hand you reach up and grab him at the shoulder. Your right hand reaches under his nearside (right) leg. From there you use the strength in your legs and back to stand up straight, thrusting forward with your hips to lift the guy off the ground to tip him on to his back. If you want to add a little juice to this move, say if you're in an MMA fight or a street fight, you can lift hard and slam the guy down in a pretty cool WWE style.
Anyway, on to the Thursday class at Warrior Gym, Worle, and Ian (Rossiter, Black Belt - Checkmat) was going a bit old school self defense to begin this class. Starting with defense for a standard side headlock (school boy style move). For the first your opponent has you in a standard headlock using his right arm wrapped around your head at the side of him. With your left hand you reach up and grab him at the shoulder. Your right hand reaches under his nearside (right) leg. From there you use the strength in your legs and back to stand up straight, thrusting forward with your hips to lift the guy off the ground to tip him on to his back. If you want to add a little juice to this move, say if you're in an MMA fight or a street fight, you can lift hard and slam the guy down in a pretty cool WWE style.
The second defense shown was where you move to stand sideways on to the opponent with your nearside (left) leg behind his legs and you reach around behind his back to grip his other side at the waist with your left hand. With your right hand you can grab his head locking arm or his leg. From there you just sit backward, pulling him over onto his side.
The third one is where you use your offside (right) arm to underhook the opponent's leg. With your left arm around his back as for the first, you just sit back whilst you pull and turn, throwing him over onto his side with you right over him.
After drilling how to counter the side headlock we then did an escape for if the guy (stupidly) tries to keep the head lock on from his newly established disadvantageous. What you do here is get your head side arm (in our examples case it will be the left) and drive the blade edge of your wrist into his neck /throat, starting at the base of his neck at using a scooping style motion to push up his neck. The pain of this will force the opponent to release the headlock giving you time to transition to a good Armbar or Americana.
Changing tact from the headlock escape, Ian moved us to some Closed Guard action. The opponent is in your Closed Guard, postured up. You need to grab his right collar high with your left hand and lower with your right hand. You then pull him down to your left side, escape your hips to the right and press your right leg down over his back. Now (maintaining the collar grip) swing your left elbow out and over his head and then close off the cross choke by pushing your left elbow toward your right wrist. A nice tight eye bulger right there.
Ian followed up with a counter for if the opponent blocks the choke with his right hand. If he does this his left arm will likely be stretched out and exposed over your right side. All you need to do is bring your right knee down across the back of his arm to really painfully hyper-extend his arm. A real quick tapper.
Another great session of training and getting back on top of things with the week day stuff. Definitely gonna start logging the weekday stuff me and Marcus do to as I need a reminder for this stuff. Some of it is shit hot.
Catcha later ¬m/
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