Marcus did the techniques for this session and we started with a closed guard move shown to him by Chico Mendes at the Checkmat class the Friday before. He was shown this move in the gi but realised it translates well to no gi. Start with the opponent in you closed guard and overhook one of his arms with your same side arm. Then reach down with your other hand and underhook his knee (on the other side of the body to the trapped arm) and pull on it while you lean to the trapped arm side. This pulls off a nifty sweep that you don't even have to open your guard for until the very last moment. Once on top in mount, you still have the secured arm so you can easily switch angles to hit a very tight arm bar.
The next move was a counter to the knee up ass guard break and pass that is heavily favoured by a lot of guys. You have your closed guard on. The opponent drives the knee against your butt for pressure and brings his other leg out to the side to start the sit back for the guard break. What you need to do is shrimp your hips away from from the leg that he has raised off to the side to relieve the pressure, then grab his near side arm, reach down with your other hand and under hook at his leg and swing your legs over away from his based out leg (once again you do not need to open your guard for this until the last moment). You should land nicely in mount for the attack.
Next up was a over head flip sweep from butterfly guard and as I managed to find a perfectly good video of this there is no need for me to explain it. Video is from YouTube courtesy of TheMDBJJ. (Many thanks).
It's a perfectly good sweep and doesn't require the use of a gi to hit as long as you have good underhooks.
For the next bit we recapped the Jason Scully Half Guard stuff from the day before (see previous day blog) which are also perfectly good to use in No Gi.
Marcus was also keen to show me another trick Chico had shown at Friday's class. The technique is a pretty slick way of getting to back from closed guard. Your opponent is in your closed guard trying to break your guard with using the cheap elbow to the inside thigh method. You use both hands to grab one of his arms around the back and yank it out and over, trapping it in position with one of your hands while you shrimp out to the side where the arm now isn't. Then, maintaining closed guard, you shrimp away by shifting your hips which pulls the opponent out a bit flatter allowing you to easily come out around and take the back. Nice simple technique.
The last few things we tried involved the set up we use for the first technique with the closed guard and overhook. All we did was work on options from here to hit a Triangle, an Omoplata and a Gogoplata. The Gogo was particularly slick. These are all pretty straight forward to hit so there isn't really a need for me to explain.
We finished up with a load of rolling as usual. Marcus is still being stubborn about not let me hit a Gogoplata on him. I think I must have had about 3 near misses. One day it will be mine, MWAHAHAHAHA.
Anyway, I've now gotta write up Thursday's lesson so I can't hang around here being weird. Laters. ¬m/
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