Still high turnout at the gym, not as high as yesterday, but still!
I felt elated last night because for the first time I pulled off a move we trained in sparring, immediately after we trained it! Am I finally leaving the realms of spaz? Probably not!
We warmed up with take-downs and trained more back moves, chokes to be specific.
The central task was to get their hands out of the way.
The move I pulled off was grabbing their lapel, scooting out from behind them, leg over their mid section, grabbing their knee and pulling like a bow with your elbow tucked down.
Basically two moves:
When you're on the back and trying to trap their arm. Putting your arm over theirs, you go for the lapel choke.
Putting your arm under theirs, you pull it back, trap it in your lat and preform an armbar.
Also an escape from the lapel choke is to put your head through the hole their arm created, but you'll likely get arm barred.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Monday, January 19, 2015
From the behind
Some of the class went to a seminar this weekend. The gym had an interesting, driven yet jovial attitude today. People were excited to learn.
Warmup:
Arm Bar from guard,
Triangle from guard,
Class:
Moving to rear:
- arm across, step up from their shoulder which is reaching across
- grab arm or far side (reach across opponent)
- push onto their back and latch the inside foot inside their legs (hook)
- Hook the other leg and roll back OR
- Arm Across, step up, but follow your hand up.
OR
-When you go to push onto their back, hook your knee over their back and do a motion similar to standing in base which puts your weight on them so you can pivot (roll) over their back and get your hooks in.
Cross Belt:
- Under arm holds on top so that when they pull it off it gets a choke in.
- The deeper the better. I can grab my elbows!
- Lower hand over upper hand.
On the back:
- you can really stick to someone's back if you'd like.
Rear Naked Choke:
- Keep your head close
- Get your arm under their chin - push their shoulder so it goes into your elbow
- the hand of that elbow goes around their shoulder
- your other hand slides in, back of your hand on the back of their head
- Those fingers 'pop up' and then clamp down on your bicep
- deep breaths
OR if they chin down in the previous step,
- get the choke but don't choke.. use the pressure to pull their chin up,
- slip your other hand under their neck
If you can't get a full rear-naked,
- get your arm across their neck without being able to push their shoulder
- Your hand near their ear, grab it with your other hand
- second hand elbow goes down on their back
- apply pressure to legs (stand on them)
- pull like you're pulling off a barbie's-head.
Warmup:
Arm Bar from guard,
Triangle from guard,
Class:
Moving to rear:
- arm across, step up from their shoulder which is reaching across
- grab arm or far side (reach across opponent)
- push onto their back and latch the inside foot inside their legs (hook)
- Hook the other leg and roll back OR
- Arm Across, step up, but follow your hand up.
OR
-When you go to push onto their back, hook your knee over their back and do a motion similar to standing in base which puts your weight on them so you can pivot (roll) over their back and get your hooks in.
Cross Belt:
- Under arm holds on top so that when they pull it off it gets a choke in.
- The deeper the better. I can grab my elbows!
- Lower hand over upper hand.
On the back:
- you can really stick to someone's back if you'd like.
Rear Naked Choke:
- Keep your head close
- Get your arm under their chin - push their shoulder so it goes into your elbow
- the hand of that elbow goes around their shoulder
- your other hand slides in, back of your hand on the back of their head
- Those fingers 'pop up' and then clamp down on your bicep
- deep breaths
OR if they chin down in the previous step,
- get the choke but don't choke.. use the pressure to pull their chin up,
- slip your other hand under their neck
If you can't get a full rear-naked,
- get your arm across their neck without being able to push their shoulder
- Your hand near their ear, grab it with your other hand
- second hand elbow goes down on their back
- apply pressure to legs (stand on them)
- pull like you're pulling off a barbie's-head.
Friday, January 16, 2015
Time.. for T position
We do a lot of T-position.
I'd wonder why but then I realize that even after all that t-position work when we're working on take downs we simply yank each other around like angry rag dolls, while our gym leader looks on shaking his head in disapproval.
I've gotten pretty good at DRILLING t-position. My hips are like.. well, they're hips but dang they're going right where they need to! (It's early, my writing skills are ungood!). Move them PAST the oponent when trying to hip toss. Feel like this went from confusing to 'look what i can do!'.
Last night I rolled with a new gym person who was a bit older than me. In retrospect I feel bad for rolling so hard, I was just trying to apply like force but I ended up elbowing him and grabbing his head unnecessarily- I hope I didn't discourage or cause him much damage.
Edit: Math on attendance:
Prior, 6 months, or 36 days attended @ 2hr = 72 Hours
Now, 7 months, or 120 days @ 1.5 hour = 180 Hours
== 252 hours
Prior was 2 times a week Now is 4 times a week on average with 6 times a week average (monthly) when I first started.
I'd wonder why but then I realize that even after all that t-position work when we're working on take downs we simply yank each other around like angry rag dolls, while our gym leader looks on shaking his head in disapproval.
I've gotten pretty good at DRILLING t-position. My hips are like.. well, they're hips but dang they're going right where they need to! (It's early, my writing skills are ungood!). Move them PAST the oponent when trying to hip toss. Feel like this went from confusing to 'look what i can do!'.
Last night I rolled with a new gym person who was a bit older than me. In retrospect I feel bad for rolling so hard, I was just trying to apply like force but I ended up elbowing him and grabbing his head unnecessarily- I hope I didn't discourage or cause him much damage.
Edit: Math on attendance:
Prior, 6 months, or 36 days attended @ 2hr = 72 Hours
Now, 7 months, or 120 days @ 1.5 hour = 180 Hours
== 252 hours
Prior was 2 times a week Now is 4 times a week on average with 6 times a week average (monthly) when I first started.
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Armbar, Triangle, Omaplata - gotta know how to hold em, gotta know how to fold em
Day 1 million, in Mercury time, probably.
3 moves flow into one another. From an attack point of view:
You have someone in your guard both their hands postured on your torso.
1. you grab under one arm, also grabbing that arms elbow with your other hand step up onto their hip, raising your hip to get better leverage bite your opposite leg into their arm pit, pushing them down the leg which was on their hip comes around their face, armbar!
2. They pull their arm out or the arm bar is not possible. switch sides, bite, pull their head down, reposture, grab your leg which is across their neck in the shin area, pull forward so the leg is across their neck, wrap your leg around, point your toes, squeeze your knees triangle!
3. The posture out of the triangle, you fold the arm you still hold around your hip, rotate your body so your feet are by their head, forcing them onto the ground. pinch your legs together so it holds their arm tight, pull your arm around them, so you're over their back and move up, lifting your hips, along their spine (not across but toward their head). Omaplata!
3 moves flow into one another. From an attack point of view:
You have someone in your guard both their hands postured on your torso.
1. you grab under one arm, also grabbing that arms elbow with your other hand step up onto their hip, raising your hip to get better leverage bite your opposite leg into their arm pit, pushing them down the leg which was on their hip comes around their face, armbar!
2. They pull their arm out or the arm bar is not possible. switch sides, bite, pull their head down, reposture, grab your leg which is across their neck in the shin area, pull forward so the leg is across their neck, wrap your leg around, point your toes, squeeze your knees triangle!
3. The posture out of the triangle, you fold the arm you still hold around your hip, rotate your body so your feet are by their head, forcing them onto the ground. pinch your legs together so it holds their arm tight, pull your arm around them, so you're over their back and move up, lifting your hips, along their spine (not across but toward their head). Omaplata!
Monday, September 8, 2014
So much has happened!
Long over due post, I'll skip trying to remember what's happened in the past near 70 days and instead just cover the highlights:
1. I've been going to BJJ a lot! My school offers class 5 days a week and open mat 2 days. I've made it to near all of them - maybe out of those 70 days I've missed 5 days of class either due to injury or other obligations. Outside of that I've trained a few times with friends and also gone to their schools a couple of times.
2. I earned my first stripe!
3. I learned I weighed 30 pounds more than I expected which changed my game unexpectedly. It's weird because you'd think it wouldn't, it's not like I suddenly gained the weight but still I find my application of pressure and center of gravity different. That said, I look more lean, well, more defined at least. My BJJ stamina is greatly increased from when I started.
4. I've learned how to soft-roll, mostly. Or rolling without going all out or being over tense. Which is in part because of:
5. Starting to get over my fear of being crushed or whatever.. when you're on bottom and it's hard to breath it was common for me to to freak out. I did some core exercises to help, learned how to better control my breath and also to sit through the uncomfortable. I'm much more concious of tapping out when I wasn't under durress and learned to somewhat accept that being smothered and having difficulty breathing was part of the game and something to be trained.
6. People have started to comment on my technical-ness. I still feel pretty lost but I highly doubt there's a conspiracy to compliment me into thinking I was technical. People often say that my skill difference from when I started is 'night and day' but that's usually after they've quickly dispatched me ahaha
7. I realized I have feet, wonderful feet. Hooks & pushy things. One day it dawned on me that I could control people with my feet and do things like hook them around someone's hips so I could pull myself onto them and also keep them controlled.
Things I've progressed at:
Keeping my hips facing opponent - blocking neck & pulling lapel - hand defense - hip control - submissions, I can do a couple now.
Things I need/want to work on:
Sweeping - Escaping from mount - pinning the arm near my neck while transitioning
Fun:
I told my good friend who's a purple belt that I was told I was progressing greatly to which he challenged me to show him and I could not >:(
1. I've been going to BJJ a lot! My school offers class 5 days a week and open mat 2 days. I've made it to near all of them - maybe out of those 70 days I've missed 5 days of class either due to injury or other obligations. Outside of that I've trained a few times with friends and also gone to their schools a couple of times.
2. I earned my first stripe!
3. I learned I weighed 30 pounds more than I expected which changed my game unexpectedly. It's weird because you'd think it wouldn't, it's not like I suddenly gained the weight but still I find my application of pressure and center of gravity different. That said, I look more lean, well, more defined at least. My BJJ stamina is greatly increased from when I started.
4. I've learned how to soft-roll, mostly. Or rolling without going all out or being over tense. Which is in part because of:
5. Starting to get over my fear of being crushed or whatever.. when you're on bottom and it's hard to breath it was common for me to to freak out. I did some core exercises to help, learned how to better control my breath and also to sit through the uncomfortable. I'm much more concious of tapping out when I wasn't under durress and learned to somewhat accept that being smothered and having difficulty breathing was part of the game and something to be trained.
6. People have started to comment on my technical-ness. I still feel pretty lost but I highly doubt there's a conspiracy to compliment me into thinking I was technical. People often say that my skill difference from when I started is 'night and day' but that's usually after they've quickly dispatched me ahaha
7. I realized I have feet, wonderful feet. Hooks & pushy things. One day it dawned on me that I could control people with my feet and do things like hook them around someone's hips so I could pull myself onto them and also keep them controlled.
Things I've progressed at:
Keeping my hips facing opponent - blocking neck & pulling lapel - hand defense - hip control - submissions, I can do a couple now.
Things I need/want to work on:
Sweeping - Escaping from mount - pinning the arm near my neck while transitioning
Fun:
I told my good friend who's a purple belt that I was told I was progressing greatly to which he challenged me to show him and I could not >:(
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Days 4 5 6 & 7
Day 4- Triangles, sweeps
There was one this weird hokey s-leg thing where:
you have someone in guard,
you pull their hand across you,
pull your leg into their chest so you're ready to sweep,
post behind you, grabbing their lat (across back, to their far armpit-arm)
push into them, causing them to create resistance
then pull back, especially on their lat, so their body weight is off their legs
then you swing your armed leg (hehe) which primes them to be brought into your side control.
day 5 - knee on belly
wow this was a lot more difficult than I anticipated. I felt like when my knee was on their belly I was a. doing the splits which prevented me from actually doing something meaningul (no control over weight nor ability to feel comfortable in the move) and B. my thighs felt ultra shakey and unwilling to sit up straight when my knee was on their belly - i had a lot of trouble placing my weight correctly. I practiced this a lot and barely made a dent in it. I think I'll need some excerise on those muscles to help them do their job.
day 6 - free day (thursday)
there were 3 people in class besides me and including the teacher.
So while two were pared up rolling, the other spent their time going over whatever I wanted. I practiced that weird s-leg thing which I wasn't good at until I was good at it.
I practiced standing in guard. Knee on belly, and tying my belt.
day 7- Friend's gym-
my friend teaches and brought me to his gym a fair ways away. The gym I normally train at was closed.
Military guys are a lot tougher, heavier and better than the white belts I've been training with - even though some of the people in the military have white belts too.
-We learned escape from rear-guard, and practiced a flow with that (escape, place in side, put them in rear, have them escape and place you in rear)
-a single leg take down to side control
- rear to arm bar
- Oh! and this hitch-hiker roll-out of an arm bar, well, my two buddies there showed me that, it wasn't something which was trained. I"m excited about practicing and trying it.
and then we rolled a good bit. I did OK - had some compliments on my leg work, which I picked up from the scissor - turning hips, placing knees. My instructor at the normal gym taught me not to let them place their feet on me - or that that was a control position, so I was much more aware of keeping their feet at bay and was also watching for this when I was sitting out.
I was able to do a number of things I'd learned including a backroll and a couple of take-downs. More compliments on my legs and ability with them.
I also pried at someone's fingers and got a stern talking to. I felt really bad because I should have known better and wouldn't want someone to do that to me. Bad feels :(( I text the person later apologizing again and letting them know I felt bad and why. They were cool.
And also, I'm making an effort to sit out when i'm pooped. I don't think I learn well when I'm exhausted and all my training goes out the window as I try to survive. It's not fun nor informative. That got a bit of flak from the military guys who kept asking if I was sitting out because I was hurt.
They tried to convince me to keep rolling and i said "I've got just enough energy to save my life if I had to and I'm not going to put myself in a position where I can't" which actually seemed to make a lot of sense to everyone (surprisingly.)
Well there you have it, 4 days of updates. I skipped one day last week (tuesday) because I had some things to take care of.
Still having fun. I especially like the attention I"m getting in my normal classes. James, the instructor, has divided up the class into us noobs and then the more experienced people. the difference is the noobs keep training while the more experienced noobs free-roll. as much as I like the exercise and fun which comes with free rolling, I greatly appriciate the ability to practice more - I if I have negativity toward free rolling it's because I'm not sure what to do or I don't feel I have enough practice to do what's necessary and thus fall back on bad habits (elbows, I'm looking at you!).
I'm trying to be more disciplined and less roudy. I'm in this for me.
Having fun, and trying to make muscles in the mirror.
There was one this weird hokey s-leg thing where:
you have someone in guard,
you pull their hand across you,
pull your leg into their chest so you're ready to sweep,
post behind you, grabbing their lat (across back, to their far armpit-arm)
push into them, causing them to create resistance
then pull back, especially on their lat, so their body weight is off their legs
then you swing your armed leg (hehe) which primes them to be brought into your side control.
day 5 - knee on belly
wow this was a lot more difficult than I anticipated. I felt like when my knee was on their belly I was a. doing the splits which prevented me from actually doing something meaningul (no control over weight nor ability to feel comfortable in the move) and B. my thighs felt ultra shakey and unwilling to sit up straight when my knee was on their belly - i had a lot of trouble placing my weight correctly. I practiced this a lot and barely made a dent in it. I think I'll need some excerise on those muscles to help them do their job.
day 6 - free day (thursday)
there were 3 people in class besides me and including the teacher.
So while two were pared up rolling, the other spent their time going over whatever I wanted. I practiced that weird s-leg thing which I wasn't good at until I was good at it.
I practiced standing in guard. Knee on belly, and tying my belt.
day 7- Friend's gym-
my friend teaches and brought me to his gym a fair ways away. The gym I normally train at was closed.
Military guys are a lot tougher, heavier and better than the white belts I've been training with - even though some of the people in the military have white belts too.
-We learned escape from rear-guard, and practiced a flow with that (escape, place in side, put them in rear, have them escape and place you in rear)
-a single leg take down to side control
- rear to arm bar
- Oh! and this hitch-hiker roll-out of an arm bar, well, my two buddies there showed me that, it wasn't something which was trained. I"m excited about practicing and trying it.
and then we rolled a good bit. I did OK - had some compliments on my leg work, which I picked up from the scissor - turning hips, placing knees. My instructor at the normal gym taught me not to let them place their feet on me - or that that was a control position, so I was much more aware of keeping their feet at bay and was also watching for this when I was sitting out.
I was able to do a number of things I'd learned including a backroll and a couple of take-downs. More compliments on my legs and ability with them.
I also pried at someone's fingers and got a stern talking to. I felt really bad because I should have known better and wouldn't want someone to do that to me. Bad feels :(( I text the person later apologizing again and letting them know I felt bad and why. They were cool.
And also, I'm making an effort to sit out when i'm pooped. I don't think I learn well when I'm exhausted and all my training goes out the window as I try to survive. It's not fun nor informative. That got a bit of flak from the military guys who kept asking if I was sitting out because I was hurt.
They tried to convince me to keep rolling and i said "I've got just enough energy to save my life if I had to and I'm not going to put myself in a position where I can't" which actually seemed to make a lot of sense to everyone (surprisingly.)
Well there you have it, 4 days of updates. I skipped one day last week (tuesday) because I had some things to take care of.
Still having fun. I especially like the attention I"m getting in my normal classes. James, the instructor, has divided up the class into us noobs and then the more experienced people. the difference is the noobs keep training while the more experienced noobs free-roll. as much as I like the exercise and fun which comes with free rolling, I greatly appriciate the ability to practice more - I if I have negativity toward free rolling it's because I'm not sure what to do or I don't feel I have enough practice to do what's necessary and thus fall back on bad habits (elbows, I'm looking at you!).
I'm trying to be more disciplined and less roudy. I'm in this for me.
Having fun, and trying to make muscles in the mirror.
Thursday, June 19, 2014
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.
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.
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