So Thursday was my first session of the week and I was happy to see my good mate Rich Presley returned from holiday. In all though it was a bit of a small class as there were major road resurfacing works going on in front of the gym and we think a lot of guys got put off by this. Even Ian turned up a bit late so we'd smashed through the warm up and were doing some technique Glenn Cutter was running us through by the time he got there.
First Technique was a Closed Guard Scissor Sweep - Blocked - To Omoplata. The opponent starts of in your closed guard. You grab his right sleeve with your left hand and his right collar with your right hand. You then open your guard, hip escape away from the hand grips (ass escapes out to your right) bringing your right leg so your knee is pushing against his torso. Your left leg drops to the floor. You then scissor your legs, kicking out with your right while pulling in with your left so the guy should flip over on to his back with you coming up into mount. However, for this particular technique, you didn't have a strong enough grip on his right arm when trying to scissor kick the guy over so he manages to base out with that arm, stopping the sweep. As a counter to his defense you pull him toward you with your grip on his collar, while your left hand keeps his right arm in place. You then kick up with your left leg under his arm and turn 90 degrees, pushing his upper body over so you are now on his other side (out to his left). You carry on the leg movement bringing it right over his shoulder if you can, if not over his back then adjust, to the omoplata position, pulling your right leg out through as you go. Finish the omoplata in the usual way.
The second technique was the same as the above but emphasized the fact that the leg needed to go over the shoulder as you turned. This time though, you drive your left leg (the one over the shoulder) under the guys chin. You can now finish the move by bringing your right leg over the top of his head and try and scissor the legs together for a kind of modified Gogoplata. This should get a good choke tap if applied right.
This was the point where Ian took over. Ian started us off with and Ezekiel from Rear Mount. You have the opponent's back taken completely with hooks in and a harness style (seat belt) grip around him. This means you have your left arm under his left and your right arm over his right, with your hands gripped together in front of him. You start by driving the underhook (left arm) through as far as it'll go until your left hand is at the right side of his face. You use the hand to grab your right sleeve cuff with a fingers in grip. You are allowed to fingers in grip the cuffs your own gi in Bjj, just not your opponents. You then pass your right arm behind his head and lean out to the left slightly, wrapping the arm down around the left side of his neck. You finish the sub by pushing out with both arms and leaning back. This technique crushes the wind pipe for the quick choke but if that fails, it also puts a lot of pressure across the carotid artery for the slow choke. A good finish all round.
We then went on to do some situational rear mount sparring with one collar grip. That means the opponent who has you rear mounted also has a good, strong, deep collar grip. Fuck me this was hard. We basically got Bow and Arrow choked a lot. I found a good method to stop it but it relied on you managing to quickly get a good grip on his choking arm with both of your hands. The offside hand grips at the wrist to relieve the immediate pressure. The nearside arm gets the grip above the elbow to take a bit more off and work on pushing the arm out over your head. Even then I only managed to block it a few times. I got B and A'd a lot more. Lesson learned. Don't get yourself in that position. Or as the great man once said.......
We did a bit of rolling after that which was cool. A nice mellow week but definitely back to the heavier training next week.
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