18 October 2007 -- Jiu jitsu

Instructors: Shin, Booth

• Attacking Op while he's in turtle. Roll Op and gain side mount.
• Op tried to pull guard from turtle, Roll op by falling backwards leg elevator
• From butterfly guard technical stand up, Op goes for single leg, step to outside with free leg, fall backwards and elevate and sweep Op, gain side mount.

Sparring

17 Ocotber 2007 -- Jiu jitsu

Instructor: Shin

Lapel choke from Op in turtle.
Arm bar transition from lapel choke.
Transition from side mount to Op's back/opposite side control.

Sparring.

11 October 2007 -- Sub grappling : arm bar

Instructor : Noah Booth

Covered same arm bar technique as in Gi.

Free sparring.

EDIT: Passing half guard consistently is becoming a bit more clear to me after this class's sparring session. The concept of making just enough space to get the knee cut across with a one leg sprawl while bridging the other leg with one hook in makes total sense now. The sprawl makes space for the hook, once the hook is in, you continue to sprawl the leg upwards until you make enough room to cut the knee across. Before I figured this out I wasted a lot of energy trying to break the Op's half guard because I thought that was the only way to escape not knowing that the knee cut across IS the escape.

Also, I was able to spar against slightly less experienced grapplers so it was a great opportunity to work on submission set ups and techniques that would generally be well countered by more experienced fighters. I was able to execute a jump to triangle, an inverted triangle and an invert from side mount to far side choke--not to mention be able to methodically practice and execute my half guard escape method.

11 October 2007 -- Jiu Jitsu : arm bar from mount to S mount

Instructor : Noah Booth

Covered arm bar technique from mount to S mount, 8 points of reference.

Free sparring

Triangle choke escape/defense

10 October 2007 -- Jiu-Jitsu

Instructor : Master Shin

Focused on stand up grip fighting and grip breaking. Drilled the clock choke from Op in turtle positon with a roll and sweep. Drilled a counter to Op defending clock choke roll with arm drag and sweep into side control.

Positional sparring.
Free sparring.

9 Ocotber 2007 -- Submission Grappling : Hand fighting

Instructor : Dave Carter

This class focused on hand fighting or grip fighting or Op wrist control in a No-Gi context. Pummeling and a couple of takedowns were covered. Also coveed was the usage of hand fighting to set up transitons and attacks. Several analogies were drawn between stand up hand fighting and hand fighting on the ground from guard.

Sparring for well over 30 minutes.

Preventing half guard block

This is an unbelievably simple counter to a defense that has given me problems on many occasions. It takes less energy than the "binding pass" or going around to the back.

EDIT: Tried this technique last night in sub grappling. It worked pretty well but not as ideally as it would seem form ther above video. You really have to watch your base/posture as it is really easy to get knocked off balance.

4 October 2007 -- Jiu Jitsu : arm bar from mount

Instructor: Noah Booth

Start on mount, with left arm crank Op's neck to left, shoot in right arm to under hook neck, post right arm straight, simultaneously wedge left knee under Op's head/neck and hook right leg under Op's right shoulder--this is the S mount. Sit weight on Op's chest, he should not be able to breath or speak easily,compress Op's arms to break his grips and pummel for grips on arm to set up arm bar. Remember to compress Op with legs, like doing leg curls, keep everything tight, this prevents Op's escape and makes the arm bar tighter.

Sparring for 30 minutes.

2 October 20007 -- Sub Grappling : escaping high mount

Instructor: Dave Carter

This was my first night back after 9 day school closure. Carter made sure we knew class was back in session with a heavy warm-up. My fitness level remained intact despite a week and a half of no physical or supplemental training (not to mention binges and chain smoking). The only issue I had was an oxygen debt cramp in my side during shadow-grappling drills. Some deep breathing fixed that in about two minutes.

We worked on escaping the high mount: shoulder crawling out, bucking to pass Op's legs, keeping shoulders off the mat and gaining full guard. After that we moved on to variations to take Op's back, and half guard work. The half guard drill specifically address posting with the mat side arm to posture up for taking Op's back or limp arming out of Op's over hook (whizzer) if he tries to drive you into mat and then taking his back.

This was followed by 5 six minute rounds of sparring.

No Classes from September 21 through 30