Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Side control to mount to armbar.

1. Use shoulder pressure and pull of elbow to control the spine.
2. Use your knee to move their arm.
3. Move your arm over their head and keep your elbow tight.
4. Other arm pushes on the hip.
5. Slowly switch your hips into a reverse scarfhold, get your hips underneath their arm. 
6. Use your hips to push their arm back, grab your foot take mount.
7. Keep holding arm while taking mount, get underneath arm smear into a higher mount.
8. Proceed to s-mount pull other elbow, finish with reverse armbar, keylock, or armbar.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Armbar and takedowns

Worked the mounted armbar in nogi, using our weight to smash it down. 

1. Right arm grabs under their elbow left hand posts out.
2. Move your hips and weight down and scrape your weight and get the angle to the left.
3. Move your left knee closer to their head, right arm scoops their opposite arm.
4. Reverse armbar option, or Armbar option.

Single leg catch
1. Move off angle catch kick.
2. Push their shoulder away, push forward.
3. Hand on their hip. Move back drop back.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Nogi Sweeps, and Hip movement Galore.

Okay Dokay.... First things first.

Yesterday in Nogi Joe and Jason showed an armbar and a pendulum sweep.

ARMBAHHHHH (right side implied)
1. Wrist control and monkey paw or Armdrag 
2. Move left wrist to a forearm choke
3. Move hips out toward armside.
3. Left foot pushes off hip swivels to right side (make sure your right leg clamps down under their armpit.)
4. Finish

Pendulum Nogi
1. Armdrag / Wrist Con Monkeypaw
2. Hips out left side
3. Grab head or farside lat.
4. Underhook leg with right arm
5. Kick out/swing out with left leg.
6. Right legs kicks under their armpit.
7.Tuck left leg finish sweep.

Rolled with Nick and Elliot got my guard smashed. But they explained why.
1. When they grip my knees I need to move my hips out but not too far, and open my leg keep my other in between their legs.
2.  If he goes one under and pushes another leg down. I need to heavy leg the underhooked leg, Push the wrist of the arm on my leg. Grip behind the belt and pull him onto my hips and roll them behind me. 

3. In side control use the arm behind their head and bridge turning their head so I can escape my hips.

Passed some purple belts and good blue belts guards, and got to use my Batman Sweep (triangle turn upside down to inverted triangle.)