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.
