Grip and Mounts

Tuesday class!

A couple of new people as well as a guest in class last night.

We warmed up with grips and tosses:
- Pummel, pull arm across using both of your hands, step behind, both hands grip on arm.
- Pummel, pull arm up, step through, hips forward with head up, step around, grab hip and back arm so you can't be elbowed
- gripped, go for 'little circle' on their forward facing leg so that your calf and thigh trap their leg, turn to the direction your 'little circle' foot is pointing (active toes) and dump them, mounting.
- gripped, go for little circle, fail, go for big circle, lock their leg using a forward movement, pic their foot, dump them, control their foot while they're falling, and then knee on belly or similar
- gripped, go for little circle, fail. go for big circle, fail. step through their legs, turn your body as though you're getting ready for a toss, but the hand movements aren't there.. so you pull your far elbow up through your other arm, which creates a pivot point and gives you the leverage needed to dump them. This was difficult at first as I didn't realize to pull my elbow across, it's not an obvious movement but what is obvious is you can't do it correctly with out it because there's too much torque on one of your arms.

Training:
- Guard Sweep 1: Scissor sweep. I'm still not sure how to get them to apply pressure to arm it. Though I learned how to better keep someone on you which is to detach your hips from the ground, point your toes down (lock) and then when you remove their post on you, hips down, legs up and they'll come forward and that's when you get them into a bear hug kind of thing.

- Guard sweep 2: When you pull them forward, as soon as their base comes off the ground you straigthen the leg on that side out and push them a bit, they roll right over and with your leg straight you avoid getting it trapped

- Guard sweep 3: they leg up to prevent a sweep, so you stretch out opposite, thread your leg through their open leg and tip them over

-Guard sweep 4: they leg up to prevent sweep and you're trapped, so you move toward the leg up and put your hand through, kick your leg and dump them with the momentum, holding their leg as you ride up, keeping things tight the entire time.