Training this week was usual but not redundant. On Monday I began the day with a new training method utilizing tabata training as I presently feel a lack of explosiveness in my BJJ abilities. The Monday night BJJ session was substituted by Bill Cooper and I was enlightened upon another method of hitting a darce as the opponent sets up a butterfly guard and from there I armdrag then allow my opposite arm to swim directly for the neck establishing the darce position as I switch my hips and fall into the sidemount. The rolling session was good but I still need to work on catching the leg drag and to that end must maintain patience. Tuesday was a wrestling session substituted by Aaron, and Aaron reviewed two set-ups for the arm/shoulder/wrist drag and throwing the opponent's arm down like a pail of water and went on to illustrate finishes coming via darce as well as a no-gi clock choke where the outside arm lodges into the opponent's hip pit and from there the other arm wraps into the choke position and the hip makes the clock movement to achieve the tap. Frustration was felt when I realized the impossibility of passing Aaron's guard as he flustered me just laying on his back controlling and throwing me around at will. Wednesday was an enriching session as class had the substitute teacher, Bill Cooper. Bill conducted a semi-breakdance warm up then showed off two methods of hitting the deep half and a subsequent sweep via the single leg and swinging the opposite arm not and another variation coming via the knee shield guard and scissoring the leg to create the opening and launching myself inside for the deep half. Rolling was lazy and I allowed myself to get beat up a little and realized I can't be hot daily. Explicitly, I noticed that I have a struggle in establishing a formidable S mount position, so more work is necessary in that area. On Thursday, Lucas taught an engrossing session where the basic full mount escape was elucidated upon  and emphasis was placed on the importance of trapping the leg hipping strongly upwards and allowing myself to tip-toe outside while maintaining grips on one arm and then bridging over. The instruction maintained a focus on being readily able to switch from side to side and be fluid enough to move from each position to another. The rolling was good and I got thrown and beat up by Lucas, thus more improvement is needed. Friday session was great as Mark further illustrated a method of hitting Tai-Otoshi coming via when the opponent tenses up and from there I side-step and attack the throw as well as a second method of performing a semi-piroutte and giving my back for a split second and accomplishing the vaunted throw. In doing the throw I am still perpetually entranced by the ferocity of the throw and how I must implement it into my skill set.Saturday was particularly hard with two sessions and learned in the morning no-gi session that I need work on my wrestling skills yet I learned from Dustin some points on reverting from one sub to the next. Sunday was a good open mat session and learned a particularly fascinating things such as using the gi fabric to breakdown the upper collar grip while in guard and also setting up the baseball choke from bottom by using the lapel around the backside of the opponent. It was a fun Sunday to say the least and onto another productive week of training.