Spicer Seminar

Yo haven't written in a while but I got some things to add.

First when doing my bottom game especially from half guard I got to focus on "rocking the canoe" or generating momentum for my sweeps. My deep half guard has improved, I added two stripes to my belt so that makes 3. Almost there just got to shore up some things.

Defense first.

Key areas I got to start remembering.

1. Move your ASS!!! I'm staying flat and being lazy.

2. Try Spicer's barrel roll trick from side and KOB if they aren't controlling the far side. You swing your legs and roll out from the position.

3. From the back think about going higher up on them if they have your back bridging your head above them and escaping.

He brought back the omoplata sweep which I confess to have ignored for a little while. I used to love this thing.

Omoplata sweep.

1. Go thumb in the collar and swim an arm underneath their thigh while getting an angle toward that same arm.

2.Pendulum your hips out, squeeze your knees, control the leg and roll over your side.

Shin sweep-if they grab your belt and don't let you pendulum sweep.

1. Control the triceps on the arm grabbing your belt

2. Underhook the leg close to your free arm

3. Extend while gripping the triceps, and raising the leg coming up on top.

Year of the Half-guard

I've decided I'm focusing the rest of this year to half-guard sweeps. I'm concentrating on 3 specific ones.

First up.

The Tails sweep, seen Roger do it and several others it's money, a great defense against that type of pass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yYZ-kCXGbY&feature=related

Second. It's a little more difficult it's the Helicopter sweep.

http://bjj.org/techniques/intheguard/helicoptero/

3. Deep half-guard sweep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7vFR950fmE

Sunday Mornings

Closed guard bump sweep

1. Tight closed guard, raise hips so your weight is on their hips like a belt and on your shoulders.

2. Control the wrist, when they posture pull back with your legs

3. When they raise up push off toward the wrist with your hips. Come up to mount.

Escaping side control tips

If they are keeping a tight side control SLOWLY wiggle and move your elbow down take it slowly instead of trying to bridge instantly. Bridge once the space is felt.

MR. Bad Guy

Went up to Ground Dwellers gym run by Eddie Avelar (might have misspelled) had a great time and got gi-owned by MBG. He's definitely improved his game all over the place, I suspect he's on horse steriods... 

Eddie showed me some things to keep in mind and new tricks.

Lapel shoulder choke

1. Grab their lapel with your right hand, pull it out and over your right knee.

2. stretch it out and put it over your left foot.

3. grab their left sleeve with your right hand and extend your leg sweeping them.

4. Foot goes off lapel so it's under your left thigh, pull the left arm and squeeze.

Zapruder

1. Grab their left hand with both hands in half guard

2. push your left foot on their left hip

3. pull and omoplata motion their leg with your right leg 

4. triangle your legs and work for a leglock.

Triangle escape

1. post hands on them posture

2. feet over their chest and push back

3. slide a leg over and across their waist step over to the other side.

Defeating the over hook and new way to posture.

1. Grab their lapels underneath their armpits

2. push out and stand up

3. break or if your arm is trapped reach back and rubber arm free.

Wrist lock from lapel grab.

1. If they are grabbing your lapels underneath your armpits

2. grab one side lapel and feed it over their hand to your opposite hand pull taught.

3. grab their wrist and pull

Thread through pass with the arm trapped

1. Get a sleeve grip feed it to your other hand under their legs

2. shoulder pressure down

3. walk all the way around keeping hips low, option to jump to opposite side.

Defense to thread through pass 

1. If the arm is trapped your torso as an extra arm to push head down.

2. Grab the belt and try the flip.

OR 

1. Roll them over if they are committing to the pass, by spinning in the opposite direction. If they let go shrimp.

Great stuff great people can't say enough good things about Eddie and his people at Ground Dwellers.

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.

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.

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.)