Training this week was extravagant and eventful. The Monday morning session entailed me practicing a footsweep coming about through a process of pushing forward then waiting for the opponent's reactive pushback then conducting the footsweep. Afterwards, the rolling session was strong and tough as I rolled with Jon for a significant period of time. Monday night held a seminar with Caio Terra and he illustrated an interesting method of breaking the knee shield whereby I balance on my opponent's inside leg to protude my leg through and from there I establish a deep grip inside my opponent's lapel, then perform a fake sit then move backwards and accomplish the pass. Afterwards I had the lovely opportunity to roll with Caio and it was nothing short of awesome as he utilized little if any strength in his rolling and steadfastly managed to own me. The next day held yet another seminar this time with Felipe Pena and he illustrated a rather impressive method for utilization of a spider guard which I plan on further developing. Additionally I was delighted to see an informal match at the seminar between Keanan Cornelius and Felipe Pena, and Keenan uncannily dominated Pena by way of resundingly active guard passing. Wednesday held a day session with me rolling actively after a thorough review by Andre of the Terra pass. In the rolls afterwards, I have begun to establish that my back attacks need some work and more confidence must be developed in this area. Wednesday night entailed further review of the foot-sweeps and I established that my judo skills are incredibly awful. Thursday had a day session of no-gi rolling with further illustration of the Terra pass with Joel elucidating an emphasis on the method conducted by Lucas. The night session with Lucas was educational as he showed off a way of hitting a triangle through the hip bump sweep which is intended to fail then falling back into the triangle. Friday was a progressive Judo session and I was able to learn that my seonagi throw is not too bad and that I have established a good combo with the foot sweep then to Tai Otoshi. Sunday open mat session was long and hard. I need to develop a way to stop Joel and throw him, and with time I am certain it will come. Harlan was able to instruct me on a method of controlling the bow and arrow choke via grasping the inside of the gi then actually holding the inside of the far leg thus completely mobilizing the opponent's hips.Consequently, it was another fulfilling week of grappling in the books.