BJJ Class 134
Early afternoon no-gi class. It was nice to hit the mats again…
Did some solo stretching before the class started with warm-ups. It helps that even though I had a three week break, I got to snowboard all through-out President’s Day weekend last week, so I wasn’t too out of it.
Technique was a half-guard pass and a few variations. I started off not liking the technique, but the more we drilled it and a few variations, I liked it more and more.
Situational half-guard sparring followed. It was two rounds with each partner having two minutes to play bottom. It was pass versus reverse & submit. I was paired with the same white belt for all rolls. When I played bottom, I was able to do reversals and pass when playing top. My half-guard wasn’t passed, but I was reversed one time when I tried half-guard on the right, which is the side I’m not used to (and which I should work on).
When we started rolling, he got a submission right of the bat, getting me with a guillotine from standing then pulling guard – my head defense weakness needs work. I was able to do a variety of americanas and armbars afterward. After a bit of those, I decided to change pace and work on defense, or survival according to Ribeiro’s book, Jiu-Jitsu University (which I got to browse through in a bookstore. It’s great, I want one!!). So I started doing that and was just defending for a few minutes when a purple belt came over and said “C’mon, you can get out of that!!” So I did. Oh well. Next time I should just try that from the start. I remember doing that in class before way back in BJJ class 91. I called it the jedi exercise.
What I did right:
- It felt like I did a lot right, but I was rolling with a whitebelt, so I can’t be sure
What I did wrong:
- Didn’t have the chance to roll with any blue belts and up or anyone heavier
- I was reversed from top half-guard. I need to pay attention to my half-guard base more
- I was guillotined. I talked about a weakness in head defense back in BJJ Class 130. I need to work on that weakness
So that was class. I didn’t get to roll with any other belts or anyone heavier than me. Next time….
And no goals on this one, I still have to do my January Goals review and come up with my new goals.
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February 20th, 2009 at 11:08 pm
Glad to read you’re back training again!
Ah, yes, the jedi mind trick… *waves hand*
“you will escape the next guillotine attempt”
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:35 pm
thanks!!!
and LOL!!