BJJ Class 142
Ok, it’s nice to be back again!! It’s amazing how time can fly – I can’t believe it’s been over three weeks since I last trained… Not counting that one class over three weeks ago, I was out for close to eight weeks… egad!!
I was able to do a few quick workouts and loose a few pounds while I was out. Good, but nothing like consistent BJJ training.
Class was good – what can I say.
Our instructor let a purple belt take over the class. There was a lot of running in the warm ups, then we jumped into grappling specific drills. It was one drill, with more and more parts being added to it as we went along, making it one long sequence. I can’t remember the entire sequence anymore, but here’s the gist of it, starting from outside open guard:
- do a one step pass and land into side control
- control far side arm and underhook head with your nearest arm and hook your opponents hips with your other arm. Transition from side control, to north south, to the other side control. Go back and forth
- this time, before you’re able to control your opponent’s hips, he shrimps out – so you beat him to his escape by popping into knee-on-belly
- transition into knee-on-belly on both sides of your opponents body
- this time, before you’re able to control your opponent’s hips, he shrimps out – and he beats your knee-on-belly by going turtle. You knee-ride his back and transition from side to side, riding your opponent out
- you sink your hooks in, take his back, and go for the sliding lapel choke
- your opponent escapes your back-control by scooting out after releasing a hook – and you beat his escape by taking mount
- he bridges and pushes you off mount and you bounce into knee on belly
- more knee riding, he rolls out and goes turtle. More knee riding and you sink your hooks in
- you go for the sliding lapel choke again, but this time he is defending very well. You grab his wrist by sliding your arm under his, move one leg hook over both his legs, slide the other leg out, hipscape, move your leg over and finish with an armbar.
Good drill huh? Video or pictures would be nicer, but I’ll leave it as text. Me feel lazy.
I started off paired with a blue belt, then later switched with a purple belt. I like drilling with higher belts – always so much more to learn.
Afterward was rolling. Did several minutes with the purple belt. I got my ass handed to me, but that was fine as I got some great tips after. We start rolling from the knees and he got me with the same take-down technique three times!! Two months off the mat takes it toll…
After rolling with the purple belt, I rolled with the blue belt I was paired with earlier. He started playing his open-guard game where we pretty much stalled. I’d go for several passes, but he’d always regain guard. One time, I was able to pass, with the good old underhook the leg and grab the collar pass. I maintained side control for a short while, switched to north-south and to the other side of side-control. And then somehow he got out and we ended up stuck in guard again. After several minutes we switched positions, he played top and I did open-guard. I was able to sweep and mount twice, he passed guard & got side control & I escaped once, then we stopped rolling.
I then went with a big heavy purple belt and had my ass kicked again. I passed guard once, but wasn’t able to establish side control (is that still a successful pass then? Prolly not). After we rolled the tip he gave me was “train some more”. That was an obvious tip. He did tell me I have to watch my base some more – which I found odd since I thought I had a good base… Guess I’ll watch my base some more.
And that was that. Goodnight.
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