As it stands I'm still suffering with this bastard rib muscle injury. Can barely do anything that involves core strength. Sparring is totally out of the window. I'm insisting on carry on with technique drilling though as I don't want my Bjj muscle to totally rust over.
Venue: Sweat FA, Weston Super Mare, Uk.
Instructor: Ian Rossiter (Black Belt, Checkmat).
Techniques:
Ian started us off with a simple guard break. It was his old favourite, the knee up butt guard break. The opponent has you in a tight closed guard. Using both your hands you hold onto his gi pants, or his belt, or even clench your fists up and push them into his pelvic bone. The aim being to ensure the guy's hips are forced to the floor. From there you bring one of your legs back and then ram it forward into the opponent's ass. With your other leg you step back and off to the side slightly so you are able to totaly sit back with perfect balance. When you sit back the pressure of the knee being up the ass coupled with your whole lower body strength driving backward will break the opponent's guard right open. Textbook guard break. Everyone should know it like an old best friend.
Moving on from there, Ian showed us a guard pass. Once you've broken the guard open you select one of the opponent's legs and bring your opposite side forearm down into the hip joint. Your then reach around outside with your other hand and grab the wrist of the first arm so you can tighten that arm up around the top of his leg. Driving your upper body into the back of his leg and pulling this in tight now, as if stacking but with extra pressure, makes the opponent immediately want to relieve himself of the pain this causes. I doubt you'd get a tap with this unless it was against a really new white belt but they will want to get out of it and to do so, they'd probably push their leg forward toward you. This being the case you just roll with the leg pushing it by you so your body comes around into side control.
We finished up with a Forearm choke from Side control. With a strong side control you pass your head side arm under his head and take a grip of his offside collar. Maintaining the lions share of your body weight on his upper body to keep him in position you pass your other arm under your body and grab the guys gi jacket at the arm pit area. You can then open your head side arm out so as to pass that arm over his head (ensuring you maintain the collar grip) and enabling you to drive your forearm down across his throat. Rest all your weight hard down on the forearm across his throat for maximum pressure.
Like I said, it was short but sweet for this one as I have another write up to do too. I didn't get any sparring done as I'm still not ready for that with my ribs so I just used that time to gain some experience cornering. It was good to be back to class and I'm going to carry on doing the technical parts of the class as I just can't stay away. Bjj = Life. ¬m/
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