Tuesday brought us the first taste of jiu jitsu in 2010, and Tommi shepherded us through some new moves. We basically skipped the traditional warm-up session and went straight into some takedown action.
Just to get us going, Tommi kept count as we alternatively lunged for two-leg takedowns and defended them by sprawling. Then we moved on to the classic one-leg takedown, where the attacker hugs the opponent's leg and pulls him down to the ground. We had done it before, but this time Tommi showed an attack for the defender whose leg is threatened. Because the attacker's limbs are pretty much tied up in the leg hug, you have free space to set up your counter attack. Grab the opponent's upper body, step your free foot deep forward, and sit down / roll back for a tomoe-nage-esque throw. With luck and some high-risk acrobatics, you end up in mount.
After we got familiar with both the takedown and the counter-throw, we did an exhausting sparring session from the position.
Another move that Tommi included in the class was a basic sweep from butterfly guard. Here's a video to dissect it nicely:
Practice makes perfect, so we sparred from the butterfly guard. The sweep wasn't as easy as I thought it would be. (Even though I didn't think it was that easy to begin with.)
Just to make sure that we weren't slacking off, Tommi put us through maybe five rounds of free sparring at the end of class. At one point, I paired up with Tommi. Anticipating the outcome of the match, I asked Tommi if he was going to (yet again) trick me into a dozen consecutive armbars. He said that this time he wouldn't, unless I clearly gave him the submission. Ten seconds later, he tapped me out with an armbar.
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