Our fearless leader, Ian Rossiter, and his trusty sidekick, Glenn Cutter, were back for this lesson, fresh from a Bjj related trip to Greece under the awe-inspiring tutelage of Checkmat head, Leo Vieira (lucky bastards). And they were both bursting with great stories and cool Bjj drills, techniques and ideas.
Warm up:
We started off with basic stretching of the neck, shoulders, arms and legs to prepare us for what was to come.
Then Ian put us through a Cardio circuit done in unison. This featured;
Everyone doing 20 seconds of high knee running on spot
then 10 seconds of pausing in squat
20 seconds of press ups
10 seconds paused in plank
20 seconds of crunches
10 seconds paused in a v sit up
20 seconds of jump high on spot
10 seconds of pause in squat
Then do the same circuit again.
We then did a Bjj technique specific circuit featuring:
Mount escaping/maintaining.
Side control escaping/maintaining.
Turtle transition to rear mount/turtle defense.
Takedown positioning/defending.
Guard passing/maintaining.
All of this was drilled at 100% or close to in 20 second rounds over two sets and was really enjoyable, although I'd prefer a little longer on each round. Good stuff though.
Technqiues:
(As usual I will describe techniques from the side I initially learnt them).
To start off Ian repeated the Arm bar from guard stuff that has been covered over the last couple of weeks.
I was practising techniques this week with a guy who recently returned to Bjj after a long hiatus. Gary Batten used to train with Ian in the old days (hehe) when they were training under Carlos Lemos jr. He seems a very nice friendly guy and is a pretty damn good blue belt if he "rusty" state was anything to go by. I hope Gary sticks around to help our team grow in the future. He'd be a great addition to the team.
The next move Ian ran us through was the Kimura from guard. Starting with the opponent in your closed guard using his hands gripping on your legs or side (you rarely get an opponent putting there hand to the floor these days so there's not really any point in drilling it as if it's going to happen that way) so there's a small gap between his arm and his body. Grabbing his left wrist with your right hand using a no thumb grip, you open your guard and shift your hips out to the left slightly so you can lean up and forward passing your left hand over the top of his right arm and reach through the gap between his body and arm to grab your own wrist, using the same no thumb grip. Once this is secure you can pull the guys elbow in tight to your chest and fall back with your entire body weight and closing the guard back up as you go. When flat to the floor you can either; push the guys left arm to a ninety degree upward angle using your arm strength, or, turn your entire upper body to your left, taking the guys arm with it and piling on massive pressure.
Ian ran us through the Triangle from guard after that which has been covered frequently recently so no need to rewrite.
Next up we did a little drill for seated feet on hips guard. You lay on your back with your feet on the hips of a standing training partner and they quite aggressively walk from left to right, increasing and decreasing pressure and you have to keep the feet on hips guard maintained. It is best if you try and keep a minimal surface contact with your body on the mat.
The above lead us on to the last technique which I really enjoyed. From the feet on hips guard you hook your left foot under the guys right inside leg and use this to pull yourself toward his lower right leg to grab that leg with both hands.You then (keeping your right foot against his hip) swing your left leg down and across to chop his left leg out toward you giving him absolutely no base left to stand on. The guy should fall backward like a sack of shit leaving you to come up into top position. Interestingly, if you try to jump straight on top you'll most likely end up in half guard top which is not ideal if your opponent is an awesome half guard player. A preferable idea is to come up to a combat stance with a grip on both of the opponent's legs and push them down to one side to try for a full pass from a strong position.
Sparring:
For sparring this week I had a good roll with Gary Batten who was a very good technical opponent. Neither of us really got anything on the other. I look forward to some good hard sparring sessions with Gary in the future.
For the second roll I was against Jay Curtis and managed to hit him with a Gogoplata which I was particularly chuffed with as it's only the second time I remember pulling one off.
My last two rounds we against Luke Brown who is improving every session. I managed to get him with something in the first round (can't remember what) but the second round he stayed a lot more alert and gave me a good tussle.
After that good last session I felt pretty prepared for the comp on Sunday. I'll give you a write up on how I did next time. ¬m/
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