DV8 Bjj

It's been a busy week for me, what with the awesome weather we've been having here in England. As a highways inspector, I am required to drive around the county of North Somerset during the snowy weather and find the worst hit areas and arrange for them to either be gritted or closed off for safety. Consequentially I've been pretty damn busy these last few days so I've only just got round to putting this entry in.

Venue: Sweat FA, Weston Super Mare, Uk
Instructor: Ian Rossiter ( Black belt Checkmat)

Last Thursday down at Sweat Fa, Weston, we once again started the session with stretches then an awesome circuit.

The circuit featured 20 seconds of;

Sprints
Burpees
Vaults
Crunches
Skipping Rope
Kettlebell raises
Sky divers
Tricep dips
Kettle bell around the world
Elevated Push ups
Step ups
Squats
V sits

I'm really loving these circuits.


Techniques:
(For simplicity, I always explain techniques from the side and using the grips that I initially learned them)

Ian started us off with an arm drag from butterfly guard. In your seated butterfly position the opponent has his hands gripping your legs at the ankles. You reach down and grab the cuff of his left sleeve with your right hand and grab at the elbow/triceps of that left arm with your left arm. You then step your right leg outside of his left and lay back and to the left whilst pulling on his left arm. His upper body should shoot to your left side with you now able to come up to your knees behind him and pressure your weight against him to keep him in a turtled position.




Moving it on we went to Rear Mount. You've got the guy to turtle, still with your left hook in between his legs. You reach over his back with your right hand and then under him to grab a grip of his left lapel (this can be quite low). Grabbing a hold of his left arm to stop him basing out you can now drop yourself to the floor on his left side while using the right hand grip to pull him over you to a seated rear mount position. As he's coming over he will (usually) open up the space between his right arm and leg for you to handily slip your right hook in. This should land you in a fantastic seated rear mount with both hooks in and you already have 1 lapel grip. Good going.



The first finish we did from this position was the Half Nelson choke we did last week. Check back if you don't know how it's done.




Next up was another choking finish but one I hadn't seen before and am not entirely sure I am remembering correctly. from the seated rear mount you reach over his right shoulder with your right hand and take a grip of his left collar. You then pass your left arm under his left arm and under your right forearm, then press your fist into his throat. Increase pressure by leaning back and pulling against the collar so your right forearm crushes the fist into his windpipe for the Collar and Fist choke finish.That's how I remember it anyway. If Ian corrects me on that then I'll do an edit.



Another attack was the old faithful rear mounted Arm bar finish. Once again, I've written this move up a few times so no real need to do so again. Just look back through my blog if you want.



We finished off with a rear mount escape. Starting with your opponent having your back in seated rear mount with both hooks in. You defend your neck with both your hands and plant both feet flat on the ground to push yourself back into your opponent, flattening his back to the floor. You then shift your hips out to the right, moving your back out also, to get it to the floor. During this movement, the weight of your lower body should press against the opponent's right inside leg, knocking the hook out and leaving you the opportunity to reach under his left leg with your right arm. If you then reach that right hand to grab something high on him like his left arm or his gi jacket, you will be supported enough to drive the leg up high and pass through to side control. A great move if you can pull it off. Any time I've used that escape though in sparring, I've generally ended up in half guard top or bottom as it's pretty easy for anyone but a rookie to see the pass coming and close up shop. Still, either half guard top or bottom is preferable to having your back attacked.



Rolling.

For rolling this week I've pretty much forgotten everything that happened. I know I rolled with Dan first and had a pretty good time of it. Can't remember specifics though.


I also rolled against Ash, Ian and Sean E. Don't remember any details about them either. Ah well. Great sesh.


I've been pretty ill since Thursday and had to miss out on the Tuesday session as I didn't want to infect anyone with my lurgy. Hopefully I'll make Thursday's class and get in a double next week with some weekday lunch time training too to make up for it.