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.
