Still injured. Shit ribs. :0( Although it's slowly getting better. I can do some really light sit ups now and I've been doing some technique training mid week at lunch time to help one of the lads whose just started up at our club, Marc Aplin, get ready for competition. That's been going pretty well and it is great to be doing something on the mat but I don't half miss sparring. I've been told by everyone that I talk to though that I absolutely must let the intercostal muscle heal properly before hard sparring or it'll just result in further injury time. Fucking thing.
Anyway, on to this week at Ian's class.
Venue: Sweat FA, Weston Super Mare, Uk.
Instructor: Ian Rossiter (Black Belt, Checkmat)
Ian started us off this lesson with the excellent Brabo Choke from closed guard. Starting with the opponent in your closed guard you break his posture down and bring him in close to you, reaching over his back with your left arm and grabbing his gi at his left shoulder blade. This will help you keep him down while your right hand pulls his left gi lapel out of his belt. With this gi lapel in the right hand, you pass the end of it over his back to near his right shoulder. Once it's there you can release your left hand grip on his gi and grab the end of the lapel, using that to keep him down in position. You now pass your right hand under his face/neck and grab the proffered gi lapel over his right shoulder with that hand. This should now be quite tight around his neck with your wrist pressuring his throat somewhat. To finish you now bring your left hand over the top to reach for the tightened gi material at his left shoulder and drawn the opponent in tight to you, closing the choke on his throat and earning a pained tap. Nice move to start the lesson.
Moving it on from there, you've got the guy to the above position but for some reason - be it a hand in or the gi being slack in the wrong place - you can't finish the Brabo. You can vary the move by opening your guard up and swinging your left leg out and over the top of the opponent's head (your body will now be out right perpendicular to the position it was in previously) and then drive the foot down whilst maintaining the pulling pressure on the gi. Another awesome choking move and one that I have liked for a long time.
Alternatively, instead of going for the leg over choke, you can keep the Brabo grip on the over shoulder lapel and rotate out right (as above) but this time keeping your left leg in tight to ensure he can't remove his right arm from the set up . Once you've done this the right arm will be neatly in position for you to hold to your chest with your left hand, giving you time to remove your right hand grip from his lapel and pull it out of the way, so you can pass your left leg up over his head and extend the hips for a brilliant and painfully tight arm bar.
Now if you get to the above arm bar position but the guy has managed to pull his arm out enough to stop the threat you can change to concentrating on his right arm. From that angle (given the slightly twisted angle the opponent would be in at that point) It's an easy matter to pull his left arm onto you so his wrist is resting at about your right shoulder. Now ensuring that his thumb is pointing downward, you can press your right forearm on the back of his arm at just a fraction above elbow and use your left hand to gable grip the right, piling on the pressure for the extremely painful Straight Arm Bar finish. Jesus H Christ does that one hurt when put on right. You certainly want to be careful with that move and be sure you release AS SOON as the opponent taps. This is a move that can cause some pretty decent injuries if not carefully applied.
We finished of with a fairly standard switch from that last move to an Omoplata. Easy, obvious and not really worth explaining.
After that I got the opportunity to watch the guys roll again while I had to sit out. I took this chance to practice my cornering by verbally trying to assist someone to better their positions etc by shouting advice. A tactic that would help me out well for Sunday when I go up to Hereford to support Marc.
Injuries gotta be over soon. Pleeeeeeease!!!
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You'll be back soon! :)
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