Friday, September 26, 2014

This week's sessions were decent. On Monday, Andre went through a sidemount set-up that leads to a multitude of submissions. This setup came about through weaving the shoulder pinning arm inside and establishing grip control on the opponent's arm pit. From there a kesa gatame switch can be done with the armbar along with the triangle. Additionally, I was able to figure out a second S mount switch from the arm weave in position. Tuesday was yet another good session with more drills from Jimmy. I began to realize that I need to close, snatch the armdrag and consistently go straight in for the double leg takedown. Joel went through a technique from the head chuck down in which the arm weaves inside and sidemount can be taken along with another set up for the darce. Wednesday was for the most part simply rolling although I did figure out an integral point on hitting the scissor sweep from guard whereupon you grip the opponent's sleeve prop him forward then conduct the sweep. I did extra amounts of rolling and felt off and tired, but realized that I need to work on guard sweeps and gaining top position. Thursday was Luca's class and he went over the basic knee cut pass through two methods of underhooking the opponent's side. He also showed a cool variation of the 405 pass against the half butterfly guard where I drive my fist into opponent's arm pit leaving me an ample opportunity to make a slight leap and pass. Rolling was decent, I need more attacks from my bottom guard and my wrestling could stand to have continual improvements--more work and research is of necessity.Friday was deigned as a rest day, however, I still was able to go and practice my new climbing hobby, and through that I am discovering fundamental similarities with BJJ. Saturday had me rolling at city of champions where I was able to roll several rounds no gi and learned that I have a weakness with escaping and breaking down the quarter guard. Sunday was quite amazing with the Cobrinha seminar. Within the seminar, Cobrinha showed off an excellent method for taking the back where the inside collar is grabbed and the opponent moves inside then as he moves to the outside there is a pull downwards and the single leg attack can be conducted and takedown occurs. From that point onwards, Cobrinha went into intricate details on the administration of collar chokes coming from when you pull the opponent down and wait for his reaction of going to turtle then taking the back. The complexity was rather enormous nonetheless there will be ample areas for me to work on in the coming weeks rolling to pull these moves off

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