The last few days have proven to be intriguing and this circumstance is of little surprise as I am deeply immersed in my hobby based on martial skills. Over the weekend, I was able to catch a decent UFC card with some spectacular submissions especially coming from the formidable Luke Rockhold. Additionally, the Jones/Teixeira match up proved to be an enjoyable as Jones  easily tooled Teixeira, however, I do believe Teixeira had some slight advantages against Jones with close inside boxing moves, thus I would love to see how Jones would fare against one of my more favorite mma fighters Daniel Cormier. 

  As for BJJ　training and studies. Over the past few days I was able to further understand how to stop and break the delariva guard such as by allowing pressure upon the far outside leg with reinforced strength coming from having the elbow inside the knee. Joel further elaborated on the many creative uses of the uchimata. Andre displayed an intricate manner of hitting the butterfly pass such as by pinning your chest against the opponents chest. Jimmy, the 46 year old crazy ex crossfit guy who likes to do handstands, instructed me upon an effective manner of grasping grips from inside the spider guard as well as attacking the basic guard attacks with an emphasis on keeping the opponent's base down. I am still working my wrecking ball  pass and it is becoming more effective,but I must always remember to grab opponent's collar and pull that shoulder off the ground. Also, through recent readings on BJJ mastery, I've begun to restructure my training so that I will roll intensely as much as I drill and stress emphasis on all of my weak areas. New moves I wish to master will be conducted upon white belts or for that matter less adept BJJ practitioners while working what I do effectively will only be conducted with the higher level belts; therefore, I can have the chance to alleviate the bottleneck. Specifically, this new training method would entail torriando on high belts, leg drag wrecking ball pass on low belts. Triangle on high belts, umoplata on low belts. Flower sweep on low belts, x guard sweep on high belts. Lastly, I have been watching an abundant amount of Rudolfo Viera matches and this one with Leo Leite has proven striking as I have discovered that Viera not only has robust techniques in passing guards but also in even pulling off the berimbolo.  Viera mildly reminds me of a guy who can play dual sports.