Venue: Sweat FA, Weston Super Mare, Uk.
Instructor: Ian Rossiter (Black Belt - Checkmat).
Techniques:
(As usual, I will explain the movements of each technique from how I first learnt them)
After a brief warm up Ian took us straight into some techniques from side control. The first was a Gi choke from side. Laying across your opponent with your left arm around under his head and your right elbow pressed against his right hip to brace him into place. Using your left hand you take a grip of his gi collar on the right side of his head. Maintaining heavy bodyweight pressure on him, you pass you right arm down to the left side of the opponent, taking a grip of his gi at the under arm. You can now finish the move by opening your left arm out (whilst maintaining that grip of the collar) so your arm passes over the head and you can bring the forearm down onto the throat of the opponent, pushing up into the neck to apply the pressure.
This is a good technique that is fairly usable against anyone as long as you get the technique right. I very nearly tapped someone out with this in my first ever competition. I was also tapped out with this by Matt Sellars just recently.
The second technique of the night was from the same starting position but this time you don't grip the collar as far over to the right, more like at the back of the neck. You then turn your lower body left, so it's facing up toward his head. Now, keeping your left hand grip on the collar, pass your left leg up over the guys head and wrap it around. Leaning forward you now push back with your legs whilst keeping your tight grip with your hand, cutting off the flow blood for the choke out.
It's worth noting that this move can be quite hard to pull off on certain types of people. I was training this move with Tom Hill and Luke Brown. Meand Tom found it particularly difficult to hit this move on Luke. To finish him with it I found I really had to wrap my leg around his neck and drive down. The more blade-like I could make my arm with the collar grip seemed to make a difference too.
Ian then brought us on to Side Control Transition to North South then to arm bar. Laying across the opponent with his head to your left, you secure his left arm so it is to the right side of your head. Now, dropping to your right hip so your lower body is facing upward toward his head, you can step his head with your left leg to attain the North South position, using your right shoulder to push against the secured arm to keep it in position. Ensure you are keeping good downward pressure on the opponent's upper body so he can't easily tilt in one direction to escape. Pushing up against his secured arm as if to push it across his body, this will make the guy angle up on to his right side slightly giving you the opportunity to bring your right leg up and press it into his left side. Taking a double hand grip of his arm at this point, you can now lean forward to bring the right leg up over his upper body as you sit back with the secure arm for the very tight arm bar. Clenching your legs together at this point helps apply the pressure.
Ian had us do that technique first so we were already fluid in controlling from the North South position. For the next technique you do the above as far as the North South then grip the wrist of the guy's left arm you have secured with your right hand. Now, passing your left hand underneath his left arm at the elbow you can grip your own right wrist. Using this "figure 4" grip gives you the all important strength advantage so you can pull upward bringing the guy up onto his right side, so his left side is upright and you can tighten your legs around his head and upper chest to keep him in that position. To finish the Kimura lock, you bring the guy's upper arm up at a 90 degree angle to his body and then, using the superior strength of both of your arms, you turn his lower arm left. Very painful. Most of the time though, the guy will know this is coming by the time you've started adjusting your grips in the North South and they will generally grab a hold of their gi or their belt. All you have to do is lean into the grip and use your body strength to rip it away from what it is gripping. Always be sure to rip away from not into the grip.
For the last move Ian showed an alternate for if the guy is too strong for you to break his grip for the Kimura. Instead you just bring your left knee up and press it into his back, then as before with the first arm bar, lean forward, bring your right leg up to position and then sit back so your right leg is over his face/upper body. You should have loads of methods for breaking his grip at this point to fall back for the arm bar so I'll leave it there.
Rolling:
For my first roll of the night I was against Tom Hill. For me it was mostly top control. i managed to pass his guard a couple of times but he recovered very well. The highlight of the roll was Tom's awesome escape from turtle choke attempt to recover guard. He basically folded himself in half to recover guard while I was trying to choke him. Great stuff.
Next up was a very game Cameron Rothery. I tapped Cam very quickly to an Arm Bar from guard once again. I will continue doing it until he stops extending the arm to try and almost push his way out of guard. I also got him with a Bow and Arrow but that was while I was playing about with position and managed to transition to his back so I just thought I'd test him with it.
Third was against Glenn. I was chuffed once again cause I managed to get the first takedown and was close to hitting an arm bar but he rolled out. Glenn then got second takedown and transitioned to North South which is somewhat of a resting position for him. As I don't generally feel overly threatened in North South I just wait for a movement for my opportunity to escape. On this occasion though, Glenn seemed happy to stay in his commanding position so it ended there.
For my last roll of the night I was against Chris Whiting. After a brief scramble I took top control then secured a leg and dropped back for the Achilles lock. The rest of the round I just played a bit of guard until time.
At the end Ian called us all round so he could award some stripes to some of the white belts. Justin Thomas was well deservedly notched up to his third stripe, Rob (Morris?), Chris Whiting and Chris Cook were all made up to 2 stripes and Cameron and Luke were given 1 each.
Good session all around. Now I've only got the one more lesson before my big competition on Sunday 2nd December. The Hereford Open. Can't friggin' wait!!!
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