Two Man Gi Training - 18/6/12

One again Me and Marcus hit the mats for a bit of training Monday lunchtime. We hit up a bit more of the Jason Scully Half Guard Bottom vid. I have really been ranting on a bit about his videos but I think he's really hit onto something by pouring as many techniques from a single position into a 7 minute-ish vid and letting the watcher work out the rest themselves. It's like have a specialised book in video form. If you take the time you can catalogue the moves he's doing and work out a small session using just 30 seconds of his vid. I cannot recommend these films enough.

Here is the video just to refresh you on what I'm ranting on about.

We started off this time at about 2:34 on the clip doing a Half Guard to Rolling Triangle. The guy is attack your half guard trying to pass. You've ended up bringing your free leg up to block him against his torso whilst your trapping leg is still between his legs. He makes the mistake of bringing his arm to overhook your top leg then drive the arm up between your upper legs. You then secure that arm in position between your legs and bring your trapping leg up and out (effectively releasing half guard). You bring that leg out the side where your butt is pointing and do a sort of forward/sideways roll bringing that freed leg over his head and around his neck to close the triangle on him. This technique lends itself to getting a near perfect position for the triangle. I found myself not actually having to work too hard as the position was naturally there.

The second one, at 2:42, was the Hallf Guard to Rolling Omoplata. Exactly the same setup as above but instead of rolling forwards/sideways you just roll forward, bringing you up in an amazing and super sweet looking Omoplata finish. These are two super disco looking moves that I'm fairly sure I will be trying to attain for some time.

The third and final technique we tried from the Jason Scully vid was another Omoplata. Once again from the above setup with the arm between you legs but this time you overhook the arm (he has stuffed up between your legs) right at the arm pit and pull while you drive your leg forward and through. Now all you need to do is pull the leg over and tuck it under the opponent's chin and then move around into Omoplata position. This is by fair the simpler variant of the three and we also found it lends itself to a fantastic tight Gogoplata. Nice move.

We moved on from Half Guard for a bit of variety and stole a move from Ciao Terra.

I really enjoyed this little variation on the Side Control/S Mount Armlock. I am always finding myself in this position so to find a little gem like this was a pretty good.

The last move I can remember from the Monday sesh was a Ricardo Almeida Gogoplata/Armlock from Mount. 

This is a lovely little move and if I can ever pull it off I will be over the moon. In fact I'm on a bit of a major crusade to pull off a Gogoplata against a resisting opponent at the moment. I've had so many near misses but still not actually got there. It'll come one day. I've just got to remember that I need one of my opponents arms very securely wrapped up before I can even attempt the Gogaplata or it's too easy for him to move.

We chucked a bit of rolling in at the end but were constrained for time so only had about 25 minutes. I'm still pretty impressed with how my rolling cardio is coming along.

In all a great (if quite short) little session Monday. I'll post the Tuesday No- Gi session as soon as I can type it up. I seem to have a recurring alcohol indulgence problem at the moment as there has just been an enormous development in my Wife's life that has given us reason to celebrate so typing up these blog entries has come a bit late. The alternative is to do it a bit pissed which is not a good idea.

Catcha later ¬m/