DV8 Academia de Jiu Jitsu 2-8-12

I was and have been buzzing and fired up to f!!k for my up coming competition on Sunday 5th August. Unfortunately, as Marcus has been working away this last week I didn't get any chance to train at lunch times in the week. Which, as I was on call for work, meant my sole opportunity for training this week was at Ian's session down at Sweat FA in Weston Super Mare on Thursday night. So I was understandably fit to burst by the time I got down there this week.

We were back to relatively good numbers again this week after lasts week's effort. We also had a new guy trying out although I don't think he'll be back as he seemed more interested in Judo.

Venue: Sweat FA, Weston Super Mare, Uk.
Instructor: Ian Rossiter.


Warm up:

The usual laps of the mat with arm wind milling, knee ups, butt kicks and side steps. Then on to arm, neck and shoulder stretching, Squat (4 x 10), push ups (4 x 10) and sit ups (4 x 10). We finished up with some leg stretching.



 
Techniques:

It seems Ian has been struck by a little Olympic fever for the beginning of his techniques this week as he decided to go with methods of breaking down your opponent's Turtle. This has been something that has been bothering him due to the Judo on the box at the moment. Specifically, now the Judo players are allowed more time for ground work but their ability to attack the turtle seems a bit shite (in Ian's opinion). So the first technique was Attacking turtle to knee on belly. Your opponent is turtled up in front of you with you leaning your weight across him on from his left side to keep him down in turtle.You then grab his left arm with your left arm and push it in (to stop him basing out with it) and with your right arm you reach over the top of the guy and then thread you arm in under to grab his opposite lapel (left one) . You now stand up and step back whilst pulling hard on the opponent's lapel. You may need to put your right foot against his left leg initially to stop him basing out with the leg. The guy should pull over onto his back his back with you falling neatly into knee of belly.
I was drilling this and all over techniques with Justin 'Man Tank' Thomas. Justin is huge and strong as hell so getting the technique right with him is imperative as pure strength on my half just ain't gonna work against him.


The second technique of the night was extending the first move to an Arm Bar. You flip the guy over and attain Knee on Belly with the guy's arm neatly coming up in front of you for you to grab with your left hand/arm. You bring your right knee (the one that's on his belly) up tight on his chest so the foot of that leg stops under his armpit and bring your ass in as tight to his shoulder as possible. Now swing your left leg over the top of the opponent's head and clench your knees together tight as you fall/sit backward. If clenched correctly you shouldn't need all the yanking you see with a lot of guy's arm bar attempts. All you should need is to lean back and extend your hips slightly to put on enough pressure for the tap.



The next move was from the Lucas Leite seminar and Ian allowed me to demonstrate the it which was pretty cool. The opponent is turtled up once again with you laying across him from his left side. As before, you reach over with your right hand and thread it through between his arm and leg and grab his opposite (left side) gi lapel at about chest height. With your left hand you push his left arm in to stop the base out, whilst you place your left knee at the gap between his left arm and leg. Now, pulling/sitting back you turn the guy over into your seated rear mount. As he flips over his legs seem to naturally open up and space away from his arms with just enough of a gap to slot your hooks in, first on the right side, then as you carry the movement on the left opens up. You should end sat up, with the guy seated in front of you. You have one under hooked lapel grip and both hooks in. I love this move and have used it countless times to take the back.



Ian also let me demonstrate the Lucas Leite sliding collar choke. From the above ending position you release the far side lapel grip to grab the nearside (right) to open the lapel wide. This allows you to reach you left arm over his left shoulder and around to grab the open and exposed(right side) lapel and slide the hand up that collar as far as it will go around his neck. You can then release the right hand lapel grip and grab low on the left lapel. To finish you lean back while pulling on the lapels. You sometimes may need to bring your left leg up and wrap it over his left arm to pull it away so it can't relieve the tension of the choke.



Ian next showed us the Rear Naked Choke from rear mount but both guys are on their right side. You have the position secured with both hooks in and you left arm under hooked under his left arm to keep him in place. You now reach over his right shoulder with your right arm and around to grab his left shoulder with your hand. You can now bring the left arm out and over his left arm to rest at the side of his head so you can manoeuvre your right and into the crook of your left arm and then close that arm and pass the left hand behind the opponent's head. Apply the pressure by leaning forward into the move and tightening you right arm around his neck whilst pushing hard against the back of his head.


The last technique of the session was a defence against the single leg takedown. The guy's shot in for a single on you left leg. You immediately sprawl out with your right leg and lean your weight against him. Reach under his chin/face from his left side with your right arm, pushing it all the way through to come out at the other side of him at his right arm pit. You can now gable grip the hand to secure it in place and kick back hard with your left leg to break it from the opponent's grip. You now ensure you have the right arm pushed through as far as it will go so you can put the right hand in the crook of your left arm (same as for a rear naked) and fold it over to close resting your left hand on his back. You now roll both of you over by dropping your left arm down and rolling over on your left side. Carry the move over so you've both rolled all the way over on to your other sides and finish the move by walking yourself in toward him. Lovely tight choke ensues.


Rolling:

In preparation for Sunday's competition and lacking any blue belt opponent's, I elected to roll with the stronger, heavier guys. Justin was first and we started from standing. I stupidly tried to go for a falling arm bar which Justin scouted well. He then stacked me and basically tried to fold me in half which was pretty uncomfortable. The rest of the roll I was trying to submit him from my guard. It was only toward the end that I realised I was limiting myself to this and so tried a weak flower sweep attempt but it was like trying to move a boulder. Justin's one heavy dude.


The next round was against Neil Owen who is essentially built like a tank. I was once again in guard pretty quickly but faired much better this time. After an initial arm bar attempt which left me chronically stacked once again, I managed to turn into an omoplata to get the tap. At this point Neil's cardio left the building and he does what Neil does best; Turtle up. This gave me the opportunity to try my turtle attacking skills against him which proved mostly fruitless as Neil's turtle is immense. I managed to get hooks in and was fighting for the choke at the end.


My last roll was with a guy named Luke Brown. Luke is a bit of an MMA fighter and has quite a colossal rolling ego, so it was a bit of a struggle in the beginning but I managed to get a few transitions in there ending in mount and hitting him with and arm bar. Good one to end on.


So that was it before my big day on Sunday 5th August. Those more astute of you will notice the posting date of this is actually Monday so I have already had my competition. I will tell you all about in my next entry.

Good rollin' ¬m/