BJJ Class 148
Night gi class. Class started with a very light warm-up. We jumped straight into drills after, which was three types of guard passes.
I didn’t get the exact technicalities of the sweeps, but they felt pretty good. They all involved grabbing the pants by the ankle and the opposite wrist, either shrimping or pivoting, and using the momentum of your legs.
Rolling was sweeps and reversals versus defense. I was paired with a whitebelt for all of the rolling. When I was doing sweeps, I quickly got a few out, then my opponent got savvier and it got harder and harder to sweep. When I did defense, I wasn’t swept but was reversed once. Next round was the same, but starting with the guy on top having an arm trapped to one side, with the shoulder pinned on the bottom guy’s chest. The round went pretty much the same.
We did some open rolling after. My guard sweeps and general guard offense needs a lot of work. I noticed that whenever I opened my legs for a sweep, my opponent would grab my legs and sprawl out nullifying my attempts. I clearly need a better game plan, one that doesn’t telegraph what I’d like to do. I also need to work on my triangle defense, both when attempting the basic one armed stack pass and the late defense, when my arm is isolated inside my opponents legs but the choke isn’t cinched yet. The first needs a modification of how I control my opponents legs and the second needs me to be more aware and act correctly quickly. Of course, prevention is better than escape. What’s that old saying, “an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure”?
On the plus side, I got my second legit knee-bar. While attempting a single arm stack pass where I controlled my opponent’s other leg the wrong way, my opponent went for an armbar. The arm-bar defense and escaped flowed perfectly into a kneebar. It was Sweet!!! Also, I was able to demonstrate to myself the importance of squeezing the knees together when doing an arm bar. Because I had a grip on my opponent’s elbow with my knees, no matter how much he struggled to escape, he couldn’t get his arm free and I got the armbar.
Ok, time to sleep!
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