Ian started us off with the drill for Kimura setup where you have the opponent postured up in your guard, hands pushing into your lower stomach/hips area. You bring your hands under his forearms and clench you fingers together, as if in a prayer. You then push up with your hands while drawing up with your knees to open his arms and collapse his posture down onto you. Between your arm pushing and his instinct reaction the opponent will (might) put his hands to the floor to either side of you. This is the standard set up for the positioning for the Kimura. From this position you can work the drill. Select one side (for this example we'll use the left/his right) and grab his (right) wrist. Opening your guard you can then sit up, throwing your arm over his right shoulder, to reach over and grab your own wrist. As this was only a drill for the set up we then released and sat back down, then did the same thing on the other side. Rinse and repeat for 5 times on either side. Then swap round so your partner gets a go. This drill is great for practicing the movement to Kimura.
To actually apply the Kimura once your got to the figure four lock (the bit where your left hand is holding his right wrist and your right hand is reaching over and grabbing your left wrist), you pull your opponent's upper arm into your chest and then fall back, pushing the guy's arm up at a ninety degree angle. At this point you also re-close the guard to ensure he can't try and shift to escape. The Kimura is a very traditional move that I have been using to great effect recently. I generally prefer to set it up by just tilting sideways and gripping my opponent's wrist while it's still on my jacket/front/hip. The motion of tilting sideways might make just enough space for me to sit up, throw the arm over and lock in the kimura.
The Kimura Sweep has basically the same set up as the first method except there is no need to grab your own wrist. In fact you can even nail it if the guys has hugged his arm around you as long as you have the space to sit up and slam your hips into him quite hard. Open the guard, sit up and throw the arm over, reaching down as if for a kimura but instead, just slam your hips into him with a big thrust while pulling on the arm to stop him from basing out. He should go over on to his back with you following straight to mount.
Moving us on from the Kimura-ish stuff we went on to it the guy gets his right hand to his leg and grabs his pant leg or belt to block. To counter this you just push your left leg through and the swing it up and over his shoulder, turning out to the side as you go. You then bring your left leg down across his right shoulder whilst passing your left arm over his back (or grabbing his belt) to stop him from forward rolling out of position. To finish the Omoplata you can either lean forward hard to pressure the shoulder or, if he's resisting particularly well, you can grab his opposite shoulder and pull yourself toward it. This will really pile on the pain though so you need to be careful with this move.
Alternatively, if he just pushes your right leg away and twists back toward your guard before you get into Omoplata lock position you can pass your left leg across his shoulders and throw your right up over his left arm to lock up a triangle. If you need to adjust because his arm being wrapped behind your leg is stopping to choke you can posture out with your body and then grab your left leg with both hands and pull inward with that leg to pile on the pressure. He'll either tap out to the shoulder lock or release and let you lock up the triangle.
Gotta catch up with writing this stuff up so I'm gonna sign off here and try and get another log typed up tomorrow night. ¬m/
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