Day 3

Tonight we did guard and mount escapes which lead into triangles and re-mounting.

If the person's in your guard and swings, you bridge your hips, keeping your elbows at your side but blocking their arm, turn your head to look the direction they swung from and then roll.

If you're in their guard you make sure your center of gravity is low by having 'ballarina' toes, instead of active toes (make sure you're resting on your feet opposed to using your toes to brace you). Keep one arm at the center of their body and another on their hip, while also keeping your elbows at your side. Put one knee in the center of their butt (spine) and the other, the arm which isn on their hip, move that side leg out so your knee goes past theirs and then sit back, pushing down with your elbow which causes the feet to unhinge. then you prop your knee over and go into side control

If they're in your guard you, all at once, push one arm back, one arm forward across you, put your foot on the side which matches their arm you pulled across you, onto their hip, then raise your hip, take the arm you used to push back and grab their head down, as your hip raises you push your leg across and then let go of the arm which is across you, grab your ankle and 'bite' down. then flex your hips more. if they're swinging with the first arm you can twist your body and get more leverage on them while also creating distance from their swing.

when going for the triangle you can walk your shoulders back to increase leverage but it's important to keep your knee which is on their hip bent and not use that to push yourself - it's important because it acts as a gaurd/pin which prevents them from escaping. or pushing past you - if they push forward it pushes you forward along with them.

The hard parts for me were:
keeping things fluid and fast, especially with the triangle
not being a lose noodle or a tight noodle.
sitting on my feet right. I kept wanting to go to 'active toes' which raised my center of gravity too high.

No rolling tonight. I could probably stay after class to do this but.. idk.. i feel tired but not from working out, rather learning. maybe a bit.. ego-bruised? like "ok, i just spent 1.5hours learning and looking stupid, I'm ready to go home!"

Oh! And my friend Jessica tried her first class tonight! She was really good from what I heard - she's as tall as me, and she's been weight lifting at the gym so she's particularly strong.

Tonight was covering basics - which felt geared toward Jessica's and my benefit.