Thursday, June 07, 2007

7 June 2007 -- No-gi: standing butterfly guard

Instructor N.

This evening we trained the standing butterfly.

Technique 1 : OP standing, your hooks in transition to X guard by under hooking one leg with arm and pivoting hips while crossing shin of inside leg across the other leg. With under hook grip above knee, then extend X guard out until OP's posture is destabilized, then with free arm pop OP's under hooked leg sweeping him backward, posture up to combat stance with arms outside OP's guard and one knee inside the guard.

Technique 2 : Same as above except OP falls forward and posts arms on mat. With free arm gain wrist control of OP's far arm, pull toward you head causing OP's torso to torque while simultaneously sweeping with X guard. After OP is swept roll up to knee-on-belly mount.