We mainly rehashed on the flow attacks we did last week (because they were awesome) and added another to the repertoire.
This one starts off with your opponent in your guard but flatting you out to the mat and stalling by hugging you tight. You initiate the flow attack by first using two hands to pry one of his elbows away from his body (for this example I'll use his right arm). You quickly then slot your left arm through the opened gap as an under hook and reach to his near shoulder, so as to bring that arm up uncomfortably. You then reach over with your right arm and grab his raised right wrist using a monkey style grip (no thumb) and you use your left underhooked arm to grab around the forearm of your right. This gives you a Reverse Kimura from Guard which comes on very tight.
If however he punches out of the reverse kimura you can pull the outstretched arm into the crook of your shoulder and apply pressure to it for an extremely painful straight arm bar.
If he pulls and bends his arm out of that one you can then switch grips for a ridiculously tight and very easy to land Americana.
And if against all odds, he manages to escape all that, you can pull the arm in tight and roll on it, putting your left leg on the back of his head (with the right still under his belly) then turning for either the tight arm bar on top of his arm or flipping him over for the arm bar at the side of him.
A lovely string of techniques there. Brilliant.
Another move we did was a nifty Americana from turtle bottom when the opponent is attacking you head on. Starting as if you've gone for a takedown and he's sprawled and is in front of you. You're turtled up and reach around behind his left arm with your right while grabbing the left wrist with your left. You then pop your head out to the left (opposite side to where all the action is) and drive your head up while pulling the arm trap down under you. Your opponent should go over on to his back with you landing on him with an Americana right there. A thing of beauty.
We've also smashed out some damn good sparring this week, with the addition of Chris really driving up the pace as there is always a fresh guy jumping in. Brutal.
In Ian's nice packed class this week we studied Omoplata set ups. First up repeating the one we did with Glenn Cutter the other week which starts as a Scissor Sweep, which your opponent blocks by basing out, then you transition neatly to an Omoplata.
Another was a pretty cool effort from Lasso Guard, where you use the old pull arm and kick through method to switch to Omoplata.
We also did a transition from when you've gone for the Arm Bar from Guard but he's managed to stack you and pull the arm free (but left the bracing arm in there). You then just swivel on your ass and kick out hard to switch it to the Omoplata.
All this was polished off with some Omoplata finishing tips and then we did a load of situational guard work rolling. Great active session.
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