There's no better way to kick start a saturday morning than with some shrimping. Tommi guided our tiny crowd (apparently, most people had something better to do than shrimp on a saturday morning) across the gym with forwards and backwards shrimps, ukemis, technical stand-ups, and some strange breakdancey cross step.
The breakdance was quickly brought into context, as we used it to escape from the bottom of the n/s turtle position. With an opponent, the strange move became quite simple. First, bring your ass up by straightening your legs and spread them out to form a good base. Grab the opponent's arm and step under-and-out with the other leg. Straighten your neck to throw your opponent off-balance, and climb to back mount. It's simpler than it sounds.
The main trick for the day was getting the triangle choke from side control or mount. I am unsurprised that Rodrigo Gracie explains the technique better than I can, so check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL0LmvbLqVc for a wonderful and detailed explanation (they don't allow embedding for this clip).
After the triangle felt somewhat ingrained into our minds, we started sparring. Old Man Cauliflower paid me a visit as I got caught in an earlobe-twisting arm triangle, and I got to spend a cool twenty minutes with an ice bag over my tender and swollen ear. Oh yeah, that reminds me: write an angry letter to the company that makes the Jomo brand ice bags. The previous one I used merely went down to a weak lukecold (you know what I mean) temperature, and the one I used on my ear immediately leaked its properly cold contents on my neck and all over the floor.
Bill O'Reilly expresses my opinion on the latest batch of Jomo ice products:
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