Tuesday 10 December 2013

DV8 Bjj 28/11/13

So this week at Ian's class (once again this is written a week behind) the numbers had dropped slightly, most likely due to Christmas impending.



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/

Tuesday 3 December 2013

DV8 Bjj 21/11/13

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.


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/