BJJ 17.12.2009

Another day, another visit to the world of jiu-jitsu. Tommi was again the man in charge and in his command we ran around the gym doing all sorts of jumps and crawls. This was followed by hip throws (behind neck).

Main theme for the evening was escaping side control when the aggressor is holding your head with both arms. Three different escapes were shown:

1. If his head is quite far from you, it is possible to get your leg over the head and swing yourself to side mount position. From there we ended it with juji.
2. Should he keep his head "correctly" close to you and keeping better control, you can try to hook his leg with yours, force him to ground on his belly and even get to back mount and choke him.
3. If his hold is tight and legs are too far away, you can try to sweep him. It normally requires for you to get very close to him and getting him to push into same direction as you are trying to sweep to.

These we practiced in a drill for a few minutes, defending and attacking.

Good half an hour of sparring, well first 10 minutes or so closed guard passing. Nothing special happened. Oh, I managed to sweep much bigger guy once or twice. That's it for the day's achievements..