Another brilliant week of training with my buddies Marcus and Chris during lunchtimes. Got a good amount covered and plenty of sparring in too. I really need to start writing some of the stuff we do down as a lot of it slips my mind after a couple of weeks.
Here is a quick recap of what we covered on Thursday (24th) at Ian's class.
First off was a Knee Slide Transition to Mount. Fairly basic. Start from a side control where your left (head side) arm is bracing down the opponent's left side while your right hand is down at his right hip to keep his hips in place. You're laying very heavy on him to minimise his ability to move. From there you bring your right knee up to his lower torso while your upper body flattens out his upper body. You gradually slide you knee across his stomach until it gets to the floor the other side of him (his left). Once the knee's in position you need to quickly bend in the lower leg and turn it outward to reach the mount.
Next up Ian showed a Transition from Mount to Side Control the details of which escape me as we didn't spend much time on it.
Ian finished off the transition-fest with 2 Transitions from Side Control to Mount Pressuring the Leg. In basic side control again. This time your opponent is savvy enough to raise the near leg, putting his foot on the thigh/knee of the other leg, to block a potential pass from an opponent. In this case you turn your lower body to face toward the opponent's legs and use your near arm to push his legs down away from you toward the mat. You then pressure the legs into the ground with your near leg and slide through, similar to the method in the first transition.
The next one was if the guy raises his leg high to stop the pass. To counter this you bring your near leg up and hook it over his flat (offside) leg and push his near leg so it goes over your knee. You can then use this leverage to crush his leg into the mat and once again knee slide over the leg to mount. A few nice reliable transitions to mount there.
Ian finished off the lesson with a Standing Rear Waist Lock Counter to Rolling Kimura. The opponent has a standing rear waist lock on you. To break this you need to select his top hand and either; use two hands to grip his one (top) wrist and push down as hard as you can, OR you can drive a knuckle into the back of his hand until he releases his grip. Once the grip is broken you quickly switch to the figure four wrist grip of the kimura, turn toward the guy then fall/sit backward and kick out with your leg with foot hooked at his inside thigh. He will flip right over the top of you onto his back and then you can roll on top of him in side control and hit the kimura finish. Lovely move. One pitfall I noticed was that you can sometimes try rolling straight over in to it and mess it up. You need him to land on his back first then you can roll over on top.
That's it for this write up. I've got more to type out now though so, once again, I'm sorry for the hasty blog and finish but rest assured, I'm spending a lot more time training these days than I am writing about it which is probably the way it should be.
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