Friday, January 15, 2010

BJJ 14.1.2010

This Thursday it was again Tommi's turn to show the "soft" way. Right away to jiu-jitsu, warm up was a drill: side mount (under) to butterfly guard and sweep to side mount top and the other way round.

Day's main thing: north-south escapes. So there is a dude on top of you his ass on your face. (Or a girl for that matter, which is better but you might still want keep positions under your own control.) How to get away? Swing your legs frantically so that there is more room to move and try to get your knee between you and him. Once the knee is there you can circle on your back on the floor and get to guard with help from your other leg. If the control is very tight other option is to turn on your belly, grab his leg and sweep him to your side mount.

This video shows the first method although in ends in triangle choke. But hey, that is more than just an escape:

We practiced these for a while against an opponent, one is on top, the other is under. Try to escape or submit!

Then Tommi put us into paired line. Five rounds of grappling with random pairs. Managed few chokes, and Tommi submitted me only three times this time. Naturally arm bars mostly. In the very end sit ups and like. There's been lots of abdomen training lately, summer and six pack here I come!

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