As usual the week began with Andre's class which entailed with me being immensely enamored with his techniques. He again illustrated two ways of passing the half-guard with the first technique coming via crossfacing while pulling the arm and sending the knee backwards. The next technique involved underhooking the triangular area that develops when the opponents sits up in half-guard then sprawling the hands outward then performing the tripod half-guard stack pass with the knee slice. Upon completing both of these passes and landing in sidemount, the basic triangle from sidemount can be successfully performed via trapping the wrist or wrapping the arm and bringing the leg over.

  The rolling after class good and I am feeling better after my dismal loss at my last tourney.I had the opportunity to roll with MMA fighter Cat Zingano and I noticed that while I was working with her, my guard game is not that fantastic. Therefore, I could use some time and emphasis to develop this area, more drilling will be necessary and direction should be found.
  The Tuesday wrestling session was great as usual as Jimmy further reviewed last weeks eventful session with Darryl, however, I was enlightened upon a weak area in my game as I often make the mistake of achieving the single leg and rather than going for it in the basic manner I try and attack the outside. This mistake must be stopped if I want to develop a formidable single leg takedown.

 Joel went about and taught the Wednesday class and it was a review of basics. Basic guard break to the stack pass and a new movement was learned via letting the opponent move towards turtle and at that point I can revolve my arm into a darce position. It was a very nice move to say the least. The rolling session proved to be long and hard as I discovered I am weak at passing the Z guard but discovered the vast importance of gripping the gi strongly and cleverly as this proved to be pivotal in directing my opponent's balance and weight.

  Thursday was relegated for rest as I implemented my new BJJ calisthenic program. Friday was judo night and I realized a strong defect inherent in my Judo habits as I tense up profusely when thrown, thus I must devote some time towards development of losing my fear of being thrown; however, I did learn very effective Judo concepts I must take notice of the space between me and my opponent and go for the throw when he is moving forward and there is adequate space between me and my opponent. Open mat rolls on Saturday and Sunday proved to be progressive but I did take explicit notice that I was more tired than usual and was not able to roll as hard. The big problem I took notice of was attacking the inverted guard along with being careful to not actively escape being pinned in my turtle guard when my opponent has one of my legs trapped. Big things to make note of in BJJ learning within the open mat session came about with Aaron's illustration of underhooking the leg and going for the take down from the backside as well as hitting the same underhook move from the Delariva position. I have a lot to learn and I will keep training diligently as  possible