| My Escapes from side control are perhaps best described by the Portuguese phrase "they suck ass".
Bump to make sapce.
Outside hand to inside hip.
Repeat as necessary.
Grab back of opponent's thigh.
Come to knees.
Grab opponent's knee with other hand.
Grab opponent's far hip with original hand.
Sprawl into them. | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment   |
| Passing hooks:
Weight. Squeeze legs slightly.
Forehead in shoulder, lower than opponents.
Arms in tight like passing closed guard.
At least one hand on opponent's hip.
Follow.
Pass when opening presents itself, don't chase a particular pass.
If they lift:
Elbows tucked in, Hands base out.
Squeeze legs, cross feet.
If they go too far to one side, small twist of hips to flatten, then sprawl/pass.
Kneeride:
Thumb in grip collar on near side, with arm nearest head.
Hook foot in hip.
Play.
If they push knee, arm in as though for underhook, splay out and base on it though,
drop weight, cross face, gable grip, hook near leg with free leg and go to mount. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| Important things to remember from today's private:
Mount:
-Underhook on far side.
-Move up under near arm.
-Release far underhook and switch to controlling that arm with my other arm, cupping the armpit from behind the back (elbow on the mat near their head).
-Keep bottom knee in the groove of their hip, chase if necessary.
Do not go to mount if that knee is not in the hip!
-Swat the fly.
- Keep the near knee pressure tight as I pull myself over with increased pressure from the far foot/knee.
Guard Passing:
-Posture.
-Stiff arm to hold them down
-Knee in butt.
-Leg back to break guard.
-Hands on thier thighs, close to the hips, elbow pressure across the thigh.
No gap between my elbow and my ribs, otherwise they can get their knee/shin across my chest!
-Knee out to one side, standing on a flat foot, vertical shin, pressure on their leg.
This position should be stable and make them feel so fucked they need to move!
- As they move, pass based on what they do. (Will probably be one of three passes, near knee thru, far knee thru, or basic)
Getting passed:
Either Carlos' frame (elbows joined to knees), or pillow defense. Switch between them as appropriate.
This will need experience underneath to recognise which is appropriate when and when to switch, and also when an escape is available, and when an apparent escape will just result in the loss of the defensive frame. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| Having been at something of a plateau with regard to my weight for a while now,
I have decided to try the intensified version of my nutrition plan.
6-12 weeks of Calorie and Carbohydrate restriction, plus I'll be increasing up the amount of exercise I do.
To assist with compliance, I have decided to post my progress here, so that the shame and humiliation of my failure will be public.
If anyone is interested in joining in on my misery, let me know. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| One of the blue belts is training for another MMA fight, so last night the other blue belt that regularly shows up and I liberally coated ourselves in water and took turns grappling and punching him while wearing just shorts. It is as different a game to no-gi (with a rash guard or t-shirt) as no-gi is to gi, probably more so.
I was able to hold mount for most of a 3 minute round and get some half decent punches in, but the only submission that was even remotely there was figure four, and it was way too slippery to keep hold of the wrist (we didn't have any gloves on, so that might change things).
From mount, getting my feet under his hips to raise them off the ground and kill his mobility works pretty well. His only means of escape (that we can see, at any rate) then becomes to roll part way to his stomach and then reverse it and hip out as I try and put hooks in. I think I need to try and get my knees in under his armpits to kill this option, but I'm not sure how well I can manage that and still elevate his hips with my feet.
From side control in the next round it felt like I might have been able to attempt a head arm choke, but he was able to keep his upper arm to the mat, so I couldn't really get my head under to lock it on.
With him in my guard it is very difficult to stop him standing and raining down punches. It is too slippery to effectively hold him down without managing to secure two under-hooks and a gable grip, and next to impossible to secure those grips before he has stood up. I think I need to grab the back of his head as the first step, and use that to break posture until I can secure the under-hooks. Even then, his palm to my jaw and pushing out may make that grip unmaintainable as well. I also need to recognise I've lost the positional war and bail to some sort of ankle pick or sweep earlier.
I need to recognise when I am losing back mount via him going out the back door and go after the arm. The one time I did this early and solidly I managed to secure and get the armbar. Not a bad effort considering how slippery it was. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| I hadn't felt the need to make notes about what I was learning, so I haven't posted for ages.
Currently there appears to be a push by the Victorian Government to ban MMA competition.
Unfortunately so much of the mainstream press about the issue is either horrendously mis-informed or deliberately biased. The government keeps referring to banning "cage fighting" and doesn't really seem to know what it is talking about, making it difficult to figure out whether they are just banning MMA fights within a cage, or all MMA period.
From what I can tell so far the whole thing smacks of some sort hidden agenda akin to what happened to the UFC seven years or so ago.
Interesting article here: http://australianmma.com/home/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=85&Itemid=1
It may well be possible that the government are actually be being vaguely sensible and that news limited are deliberately misrepresenting their position to sell papers and/or push their agenda. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| This week in the private I asked for some techniques for clearing an arm so that I can proceed to Triangle or Armbar or whatever from Guard.
I was shown a few things to tighten up my triangle and a couple of other setups but the two that stand out were:
- Break opp. posture.
- Get one of opp. arms out to the side.
- Overhook that arm and feed your hand in across opp. chest.
- Grab the opposite lapel with that hand.
- Wait for opp. free arm to start "doing stuff".
- Grab the wrist.
- Feed your knee in and clear the arm.
- Triangle for t3h w1n.
and:
- Underhook right arm.
- Get a gable grip over that shoulder.
- Pull opp. down.
- Get a deep grip over the top of opp. shoulder with underhooking hand.
- Push opp. head away with the other hand.
- Pull left knee up across opp. chest.
- Clear opp. free arm and put leg on shoulder.
- Triangle for t3h w1n.
While practicing them afterward they felt so easy to use it was almost like cheating.
Now to try them during rolling... | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
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| Sprawl you fool. Don't pass out. Sprawl!
I rolled with the Black belt I take privates with a couple of times last night.
The first time he let me get off the guard pass to leg bar thing he showed me on the weekend but after that he just triangle/armbar-ed the crap out of me any time I started to setup my guard pass. He was trying to see if I had remembered what he had told me to do in that position (see above), but with the flow of blood being cut off to your brain you end up thinking very slowly and your thought processes devolve as follows:
Uhoh. Triangle. I need to go round to the right and posture up to get out, wait, he's attacking the arm, protect the arm, protect the arm, now... what was I, uh, I need to go left or right... one of them... which? ...one? I'm passing out, tuck the chin tuck the chin, okay... safe for a bit... I need... to go a direction... which direction... if I go the right way... I get out... if I go the wrong way... I pass out... I don't know... which way... I should... go... don't wan't... to... choose... wrong... maybe... if... I... go... forward... instead... ... ... that... didn'...t wo...rk... ti...me... to... ta...p...
*tap* ... *tap* ... *tap* ... *blood returns to brain* crap, I should've gone right.
Anyway, apparently since I had weight on the leg, I should sprawl... | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Last week I hurt my ear at training. The next morning I noticed there was some blood building up under the skin (about the size and shape of the end of your thumb).
In order to avoid it cauliflowering up, I figured I'd pop along to the GP and he'd give me a local, drain it, and pin it back.
How wrong I was.
One admission to Hospital and a General Anaesthetic later, here I am lying in bed with a week off work (apparently places full of sick people and an open wound with a drainage tube are best not combined).
Anyway, since so many people seem to be curious to see:
( Large, gross (according to some people) picture of my ear ) | | comments: 10 comments or Leave a comment |
| It's been a little while since we went over this (4 days or so), hope I'm remembering it right...
Holding the mount ideas:
- crossface the head from the side they're turning to.
- As they turn, push down on the shoulder that is coming up, pull up on the elbow that is going down. Move your knee under the elbow you have pulled up.
Americana:
- Both arms straight, weight back slightly, and jerkily apply weight to the arm to clear it.
- Hook all fingers and the thumb around their wrist, cock your wrist. Elbow in the crook of their neck.
- Use the same grip on your own arm when you come in underneath.
- Forehead on the back of your hand (the one gripping your own wrist).
- Pull everything down their body as much as you can.
Getting the arm if they are defending it well:
- Left hand around their head in a crossface sort of thing.
- Right hand under their armpit/back to get a gable grip.
- Drop your weight right down and drive forward into their arm to raise it.
- repeat as necessary.
- get your face on the outside of their arm and push it across.
- grab their wrist and transfer it to your right hand (which comes across under their head).
either transition to Americana (see above), or:
- sweep left hand under the non trapped arm to gather it up.
- Bring right knee up around their shoulder
- Bring left foot up ala armbar from mount.
- Gather up the arms and start to straighten them.
- Bring feet across and lay back into armbar.
Should also be able to do a head arm triangle from there. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| The monthly-ish lesson taken by my instructor's instructor was last night.
At the end of the class my instructor was promoted to brown belt, which is pretty cool.
On to what we did, escapes from side back control:
Basic escape - opp. is kneeling:
- Reach across front of opp. legs with your near arm and grab the knee (wing your arm around the outside of their leg)
- Raise up onto your feet, butt in the air.
- Post out with the other hand.
- Walk sideways into your opp. using the posting hand to push.
- Push opp. over and take side control.
Alternate version - opp. posts out far leg, has near arm under your far armpit:
- Tuck both arms in and down trapping opp. arm and drop onto your far shoulder.
- Roll your opp. over your body.
- Place the other arm across your opp. head and put your elbow into the side of their head.
- Turn over into side control.
Alternate version Counter Counter - opp. sprawls as you try and roll them:
- Post your fist from the non-trapping arm onto the mat and make a 90 degree angle with your elbow, under your opp. chest.
- walk around in a circle, staying on your shoulder, ducking your head out under the gap made by your arm.
- Keep the arm trapped as you do this and you should come out into a figure four which you can lock on by sitting up.
- If you don't have the figure four, you should be able to easily take the back.
Alternate version - opp. posts out far leg, but does not commit arm.
- Turn out far arm to post on your elbow.
- Bring far knee across beside and slightly in front of opp. near knee.
- sit back on far hip and pull your upper body back.
- Bring near arm through for an underhook but instead grab the near ankle.
- Pull the ankle into your hip/pocket.
- Get to your knees.
- Put your head into opp. ribs, just below the shoulder, and drive forward into side control.
Rear Naked Choke stuff from the other day:
Starting from back control with left arm over opp. shoulder, right arm under.
- Clasp hands (or grab left wrist with right hand) with the left hand against opp. chest, right hand on top.
- A short movement should allow the left hand to slip up and grab opp. right shoulder.
- Take your right hand out and bring it over the right shoulder.
- If opp. has grabbed onto left arm, use the right hand to grab opp. hand and take it off straight ahead.
- As you do so stop your right arm so that your right elbow is in line with your left hand.
- Tuck your left hand into your right elbow and bring your right hand around behind opp. head.
- Push forward with right hand on the back of opp. head.
Unconsciousness/tapping ensues.
If opponent has arm held too firmly:
- grab left hand with right.
- punch left hand forward and right so that your arm is out straight, diagonally across opp. throat.
- pull left hand back to own shoulder for traditional RNC position.
- right hand behind opp. head, an so forth.
I rolled with the purple belt after class, and got my ass handed to me far more readily/often than I should have.
I think I over-trained last week. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
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| Haven't posted in quite some time. I had gotten to a point where we tended to be going over stuff in class that I already knew, so there was less and less point in writing it down as an aid to memory.
I've started doing some private lessons with a brown belt who has been teaching one night a week at the gym. Now that I'm going over stuff that I have specifically asked to learn, trying to remember it is becoming relevant again.
Escapes from Under Side Control.
Basic Escape - points to remember:
Side Control: Both hands on far side of body.
- Walk backwards on shoulders away from opp. rather than try and push them away from you.
- Use straight arms, or elbows/forearms bent at >90 degrees for structure.
Pillow defense:
(combining some stuff from the Carlos Machado seminar I went to)
Side Control: Bottom hand blocking hip. Top hand on far side of head.
- Straighten Both your legs.
- Raise your legs off the mat to vertical and then swing them down to the mat.
- Use the momentum to try and sit up.
- As you do so, pull your near shoulder away from your opp.
-- Repeat as necessary, until you are on your side facing your opp.
Position should be as follows:
Bottom arm is out straight (in line with your spine) with your head resting on it (like a pillow). Top arm is around opp. waist/back, resting on top leg. Bottom leg is out straight (in line with your spine). Top leg is forward. Top shoulder should be as low as possible, with you lying on your stomach).
If opp. crossfaces you:
Swing head out backwards.
Forward hip escape down opp. body.
Grab the leg/take the back.
If opp. goes around to north/south, grab the top wrist, unless it is already around past your head.
Collapse to your stomach.
Come up to your knees.
Keep the arm holding the wrist straight to make distance.
If opp. jumps over:
Pull knees up and touch them to your elbows, and roll to your back.
Let opp. land on your hooks.
If opp. goes around legs:
Switch base into hooks guard.
Side Control: cross face, bottom arm on far side.
Do the raise legs/sit up thing from before to make space.
Suck your near elbow in and down.
Use it to get an overhook around the lower arm.
Come out to knees and put your shoulder on opp. shoulder.
Put weight into the shoulder, armdrag, and take the back.
Meeting to go to, must remember to go over RNC stuff. | | comments: 12 comments or Leave a comment |
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| It's been about 4 days since we covered this so it's probably going to be a bit sketchy, but here goes:
We did some hooks guard type stuff for when your opponent is standing.
If they have hold of your feet (by the toes and are cranking them):
- Circle your feet in horizontally (as opposed to away from your opponent's body) and then up and around. This will work against their thumb at it's weakest and allow you to break the grip.
From your back, opponent holding both your feet:
- Free one foot and hook it in behind their knee.
- Pivot your body and grab the ankle on the same side.
- Free your other foot and hook it behind the other knee.
- Take the first foot out and place it on the hip on the same side.
- Push on the hip as you pull on the foot.
Most likely your opponent will try to step off your hook.
If you slide your remaining hook down to their ankle it can be easier to feel them doing this and to pull with that hook as well when they try to do so.
There was some stuff to do if they do get their foot out the way, but I can't remember two of them well enough to describe, and the third involves taking the hook that you have and, just as they are stepping away, shoving your leg through and up and wrapping it around their leg to trip tham and sitting up into a calf crush/leg lock, which I can't really visualise without having someone to wrap my leg araound. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| For the last few classes we've been doing some stuff from hooks concentrating on using an underhook.
The basic sweep:
- With both hooks in, lean forward and get an underhook. Keep yourself glued to your opponent with this.
- Put the other hand behind yourself for support and move your hips to one side.
- Using the underhook, pull your opponent into the gap you've created.
- Use the support hand to snag their non underhooked arm (they're probably posting on it already)
- Use the hook on the same side as the underhook to sweep them over.
Improved a bit:
- As above, but instead of pulling your opponent forward into the hole, get a gable grip over their shoulder.
- Pull the shoulder down and forward (try and touch your elbow to the ground)
- Use your hooks to sweep (don't worry about the posting arm you should be able to sweep them without it, if not let go the gable grip and snag it like before)
If, when you get the gable grip, they grab hold of your head and try to stack you up:
- Switch the direction you are trying to sweep them.
- Stick the arm in front of their body across their chin or throat (keep the gable grip) and use it as a lever to assist rolling them over.
If, when you get the gable grip, they try and pull their arm out:
- Using the arm in front of their body, bring your hand down and try to cup the bicep of the arm they are pulling out (you want your arm above theirs).
- Pull their arm across the front of your body so that both their arms are on one side of you (ideally this should be one smooth motion that continues on from the step above), keep hold of the arm.
- Reach across their back with your other arm and grab just under their armpit (you could take their back from here).
- Reach down with that hand to the bicep of the arm you aren't controlling and pull that arm across your body, hold onto the arm.
- As you do so slide your hips underneath them so you are centered beneath them.
You should be directly under them with their arms crossed in front of their face/neck
- Use your feet to kick out their knees.
- Keep hold of their top arm, and use it to trap the bottom arm in place.
- Bring the leg on that side up and across the back of their neck, if you want/need to grab hold of it with the hand that was holding their bottom arm in place.
- Bring the other leg up and cross your feet or triangle your legs.
From this position there are a bunch of things you can do:
- Squeeze your knees together for a triangle-like choke
- put their bottom arm in your armpit and diagonal armbar them.
- Swing your foot across their head for a traditional armbar.
- I'm sure there is more.
This does work in no-gi, but it is easier to tie them up and use the top arm to pin the bottom arm with a gi.
If, going all the way back to the beginning of this, they suck their arm out as you are going for the underhook:
- Reach down and grab their thigh with the underhook arm.
- Put your other hand behind you as close to you as possible.
- Slide the hook on that side under your butt and use the arm to push yourself forward.
- With your shoulder in their chest and lifting with underhooking arm, turn them sideways as you drive forward with your leg.
- Use the hand that was behind you to "tap" the knee on that side and take them over.
(This is similar to a wrestling double leg takedown, just done from the knees. The theory behind this move is that in order to pull their arm out of the way, they will have to shift their weight backwards, as they do so you drive forwards and take them over.)
Time to head to tonight's class... | | comments: Leave a comment |
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| I was just learning to accept and deal with society's negative views of my existing hobbies (role playing and computer gaming) and they have to go and start picking on my new one...
On the plus side, the show in question has been axed... (after one episode no less) | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
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