Venue: Sweat FA, Weston Super Mare, Uk
Instructor: Ian Rossiter (Checkmat Black Belt)
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 and the weird torso twisty thing where you sit down and turn you legs one way and twist your bother 'tother.
Techniques:
(I will describe the techniques from the side I initially learnt them on for ease of description).
For the first few techniques this week we covered the Over-Under hook control from closed guard. The setup for this starts with the opponent in your closed guard with, postured up with his hands at your lower body. You select one of his arms, in my case his right arm, and grab his cuff using both hands turning the cuff inside out over your fingers to assist with grip. Use this grip to pull the arm up over your left shoulder whilst simultaneously clenching your guard and lifting your legs to pull the guy up closer to you. As the arm's coming up you maintain your grip with your inside hand (my right ) while releasing the outer hand and bringing it down under his arm then back over the top and swinging your arm back down and passing the hand inside to take a grip on the opponent's lapel. This gives you strong control of the guys right arm.
The first move we did from here was a good old choke. With your free right hand you reach up and grab his shoulder in quite tight to the neck. You then (while maintaining the grip) drive the elbow down into his chest, then up into his throat. The driving down first helps make the space for the choke. If done correctly the choke can come on really quickly.
I was drilling all of the evenings moves with Rich Presley and Dan Foster.
The next technique from the same setup was for an arm bar or what I like to call the "Rickson Armbar". The bad thing about the first technique (the choke) is it's so easy to block that you'll probably never get it on anyone except a white belt. All the guy has to do is use his free hand to push the driving arm away. If he does that though, you can open your guard and shift your hips out to the left, step your foot onto his hip and then turn in toward his arm. You can now use your left knee to press on your left elbow, to apply pressure to the opponent's arm that will be straightened out against your side. This is a very painful submission and is very attainable at all levels.
Next up was the Triangle. From the setup, you get to the position for the Arm bar but for some reason it's not coming on. Maybe the guy is freakishly flexible, maybe he's shifted his arm just right so it doesn't come on. From here, ensuring your left foot is pushing on his right hip, you use your tight control to push against your opponent so he's forced to put his left hand out wide on the mat to base out. Now all you need to do is push away using the left leg so you can bring the right leg out and then wrap it around his neck over his left shoulder. Once wrapped around, pull it neatly into position using your right hand so you just need to bring the left leg up and wrap it around the lower part of the right leg to close the triangle tight.
Next up was a change of perspective. Focusing on the top guy's position Ian showed us the escape for the Over Under control. The guy has the arm trapped and the guard closed tight. You need to step your offside leg (my left when I did it first) out to base, punch your trapped arm further through and then circle it out and down the side of the left side of the guy's body so you can turn it and swing it back up and inside. Fairly simple really.
From there Ian demonstrated two simple variations of the Smash Pass. The first is the standard guard break, then pass your arm under the guys leg and reach up and grab his collar. Then press your weight against the guy's leg and push it up toward him while you walk out and around the leg (maintaining the pressure as you go). When you get to the point where the leg is pushed up very high and you are out at the side you can turn your head and shoulder away from the leg so the leg fires back past you and you have passed into side control.
The second variation was for if the guy stopped you from passing by pushing on your side with his hand. Keeping your pressure against the leg you just bring your nearside knee up inside near his elbow and knee the arm out of the way so you can pass as usual. Fairly obvious but you'd be surprised how many are stopped by the simple little hand against side pass block.
Sparring:
The week I sparred first with Ian, then Glen'son, then with (Old) Rob, then Glen and finished against Dan Foster.
Good lesson. Still miss Marcus though.
On the upside I've found another guy to get some training is with during the week. A young lad named Tom Gifford came up to me a few weeks ago when he saw me and Marcus training and asked what we were doing. I got chatting and he asked if I was ever up for training with him a bit as he's a brown belt in Judo but wouldn't mind learning some more ground stuff. I was happy to and we had our first session on Monday. Tom showed me some throws for 20 minutes, I showed him some ground work for about the same. Then we sparred from standing. As predictable, Tom took me down nearly every time and then I either swept or tapped him out every time. So there's definitely a lot for both of us to work on but we wee both dead chuffed with what we picked up from the other. We've agreed to try and get in 2 a week at lunchtimes.
Good times ahead. ¬m/
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