Venue: Sweat FA, Weston Super Mare, Uk.
Instructor: Ian Rossiter
Warm Up:
Laps of the mat, including, ass kicks, knee ups, facing inward for a lap, facing out for a lap and arm windmilling for a couple of laps. Neck, Arm and Shoulder stretching. Push ups 10x5, Squats 10x 5, Crunches 10 x 5, then some leg stretching and some back stretching exercises.
Techniques:
Ian kicked us off the week with the Standard escape from seated rear mount. You are in what is considered to be the worst possible position you can be in in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. You are seated upright with your opponent behind you, with his legs wrapped around your body and his feet in between your legs (or "Hooks In"). He is now free to attack you mercilessly with his arms, looking for gi chokes, rear naked chokes or even arm bars and rear mounted triangles. Not a good position. For a basic defence you need to be sure your arms are pulled tight in to your sides and your hands are up defending near your throat and gi lapel (T-Rexing as it's known). While the guy is working on passing his hands through your arm defence you can scoot yourself down by putting your heels to the ground and pulling your butt toward them, thus moving your body down within in rear mount. Sometimes you might need to do this a couple of times to get down the required distant. From that position your danger has lessened considerably as even if the opponent does get his arm around your neck now, he will not be able to finish the choke. Now you can bring your heel to your butt again so the opponents hooks are up quite close to you, then pick a side and quickly drop the leg on that side so the opponent's hook pops out. It's usually good at this point to use the same side elbow to help the hook pop out. Once the hook is out you quickly shrimp your butt out to that side, twisting your body around the hook that was still in so you can hug that leg. This is the part that usually ends in a mad scramble. In an ideal world you would have a tight hug on the leg with your own legs keeping it in place so you can push it to the ground and then hurriedly kick your trailing leg out and over and end in side control. In the real world you will probably end up in half guard if the opponent is savvy enough to see that he's lost the position and to try for damage control rather than a quick regain of position. What I found is that the harder the guy tries to keep his controlling position once you've shrimped those hips out, the worse off he will end up (usually).
I drilled this and all moves tonight with Rich Presley. We had a good bit of banter and kept straying off the beaten track with techniques we were trying.
Second technique of the night was an alternative escape from rear mount. What this one entailed was for you to use your legs to push yourself backward into your opponent and off to one side. The aim is to get your back flat to the ground but you may have to fight for this against a determined opponent. Once there your danger has mostly subsided and you can make good your escape by shrimping out and coming up on top. It's worth noting though that a quick opponent might try to mount you if you take all your weight off his leg whilst escaping. Rich did this to me before I realised what I was missing.
Ian moved us on from there to a fairly basic Gi Choke. This time the focus is on the guy who has the rear mount. All you do is select a side and pulled the guy's gi lapel away from his body to make space. You can then bring the other hand over his arm and under his jaw to grab very deep into his collar using the thumb in grip. You now use the other hand (that was originally pulling the first lapel out) to take a low grip of the other lapel. You finish the move by leaning your body backwards. Easy finish. easy move. Tight as hell though.
Me and Rich also played around with a Gi choke where you put your foot in the opponents jacket to apply pressure and one where you use your own lapel to wrap around the opponent from behind and then finish it like a bow and arrow.
The next move was an arm bar from the rear mount which was formally one of my most favouritest moves. Basically you force an arm into his T-Rex defence and grab your gi pants so you can use this as leverage to pull the arm away from the his side. You then use the other arm to push against the side of the guys head (the same side as where the rest of the action is happening) and lean your body out on that side passing your other side leg over and around his head and falling back to the floor, taking the trapped arm with you to finish the arm bar. Remember to clench your legs together tight to minimise the possibility of the guy escaping the hold.
Next up was three good little tricks to help you defend when an opponent has got your back.
The first one was a very slick inverted arm bar. The guy has you rear mounted and has managed to pass and arm under your chin for the rear naked choke. He's about to fold the other arm over the hand of the first. This would be disastrous and must be stopped at all costs. What you do at this point is use both of your arms to grab the arm that's about to wrap over the choking arm and pull it down, using your shoulder as a fulcrum to finish the inverted arm bar. It's so simple yet it's not a move you'll instantly think of when being threatened in that position.
Second one was the good old crossed feet crusher. Your opponent has your back and commits the cardinal sin of crossing his feet to keep the hold, rather than getting his hooks in. All you need do is pass one of your legs of the top of his crossed ankles and use your other leg to triangle it. Pushing down on this now puts an immense and very painful amount of pressure on the guy's ankle. I have never known this to fail when executed correctly.
The last one was a body lock break. The guy has your back and is blessed with legs long enough to wrap one around your body fully, using the other leg to triangle it in place for a really tight lock. What Ian showed was you lean your body weight toward the triangled foot so you and your opponent are over on your sides. You then bring the your leg that is closest to the crossed feet up to press against them and use your off side arm to push against his inside leg just above the knee, while your nearside arm pushes against the mess of ankles you got on the other side to put pressure on his ankles for an ankle lock tap. Nice move.
Rolling:
First roll of the night was with Rich. I mostly played about with guard but fell into my usual routine of using crazy legs to block his passes while trying to hit the occasional sub. This is a habit I must break out of because it's not gonna take me anywhere in the long run. I got to remember to go for the sweeps from the outset.
Next was Glenn Cutter, who used his his usual ferocity and pace to good effect. I initially went for an arm drag to get to his back but Glenn's judo skills helped him resist this to good effect and brought him out on top. I working from guard I threw up an arm bar attempt and tried to push my leg through for an omoplata but didn't get anything. Then Glenn broke my closed guard and after a while managed to pass my open guard and come round to North South, though he strangely just rested on that for a while, not trying to threaten anything. I was just waiting for him to move one way or the other to make my escape and when he eventually did I managed to quick pull back to half guard. That was where the roll ended.
Next up was Jay. A new guy who didn't have a gi. I asked him what kind of experience he had to which he replied " this is only my second session". I was about to help him out and run him through some basics but he basically bull rushed me and tried to hit me with an achilles leg lock, but with both his legs crossed over mine and trying to yank on it for all he was worth. I just stepped into it to take any pressure off then turned towards his ankles and isolated one, then slapped and achilles lock of my own on which got the tap. I then explained to him about the whole illegality of the method he used for the lock for Bjj purposes (he was reaping the knee) and started again. He charged straight in again going full pace and trying to bulldoze me over so I explained to him about not extending the arms to push against an opponent while slapping a light arm bar on him.
Last roll of the night was with Chris Whiting who is definitely showing improvement. He's not using all his strength to just try and push me down and crush my neck from in my guard any more, in fact there were definitely some signs of guard pass attempts. I did get him with and arm bar from the guard at one point but this time I really had to work for it whereas previously he used to just basically give up his arm with one of his throat crushing endeavours.
After rolling we all had some photies taken. This is by far the best one though :oD
Now I've gotta remember to prep some stuff for this weekend just in case me and Marcus get to train Monday and Tuesday lunchtime. ¬m/
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