scissor sweep

I like this explaination - I'll try it in class today

Opponent stands from your closed guard

Opponent stands from your closed guard:

1. As they post with leg, underscoop. Wait till they put some weight on the leg, hip up to sweep.

2. If you miss that, go for the sickle sweep or the 3 post sweep.

3. If you don't have the grips for the sweep, kick out!
3a. Keep a grip with your left hand on their right sleeve
3b. Push them away with your feet at their hips.
3c. Keep distance with your left arm straight.
3d. Post with your right arm and swing your feet back.
3e. Posture up and jump guard again.

What to do if you pulled guard but they still stand

I pulled guard but they get hands on my hips and start shaking me down. I need to get double underhooks, drop legs down, and reap one of his legs and fall forward into halfguard top.

Open guard attacks

Tonight in class, I'm gonna try open guard attacks. Traditional open guard arm lock and triangles.

Leg Lasso

I've been trying to work on the leg lasso position. Here is a sweet sweep I want to try. I haven't seen it elsewhere so maybe it's a bs move. I'll workshop it in class today:

Opponent Stands:


Opponent Kneeling (We learned this in class and it works):

Javier School!

Javier took the time to show me a bunch of sweet moves:

From Closed Guard

1. Deep cross collar grip their left collar. Break them down. Lift up your left elbow to create a straight choke across their trachea. Reach around their head with your right arm and grab your left elbow material. Push down with your right arm and up with your right arm.

2. Arm triangle. Break them down. drag their right arm across your body. With your left arm hook around their head. Use a rear naked choke motion to finish.

Escaping the back

1. In turtle, they harness grip you and keep a little too high on your back. Hold the elbow opposite of where the opponent's body is. Tuck the arm in and roll towards your right shoulder. During the resulting scramble, take side control.

class notes

We worked on a few things today:

1. Movement drills: mount to s-mount to back
2. Butterfly Sweep
3. Halfguard to butterfly sweep
4. Open guard sweep
4a. Knee to bicep sweep
4b. Leg lasso to sweep
5. Open guard sweep counter-counter
5a. As they push in your knee, you dive in deep and finish the sweep

Butterfly Guard Notes:
a. Be an annoying little ball
b. Keep everything tight!
c. Underhook with your arm the same side as you have your knee up
d. keep your head low and tight
e. grip the pant leg of the other side
f. Get your hip out and to the side!

Private lesson

Holy crap, I basically got a private lesson with oli and justin. learned so much i could feel knowledge seeping out my ears. and probably some blood.

Triangle setups from closed guard guard:

1. Grab opponents right sleeve with your right hand. Grip break with help from your left hand. Keeping the sleeve grip, bring your right arm around your head and pin their right arm under your head. Get an overwrap with your left arm and grab a cross collar grip with your left arm. you can now release the pin of the orm with your head. They can try to posture up but you can hold their head and keep the overwrap. when the try to post with their left arm, push it down with your right arm. Ladder your right leg over the arm and get a shoulder lock. Triangle from there.

2. Setup for this is closed guard and they have tight grips and good posture. Grab a cross collar grip with your left hand. get a sleeve grip on their left hand with your right hand. Open guard and hip way out - you want distance and hip to the left. You have 2 options from here.

2a. If their right elbow is held away from their body (is out), shoot your left leg inside and bridge up, catch their neck with your leg and triangle!

2b. If their right elbow is held in and tight, use your left knee and hit their right arm from the outside and push it down. Now ladder with your left leg to shoulder lock. triangle from there.

3. Leg lasso. Closed guard. double sleeve grip. Hip way out. wrap their right arm with your left leg. Push your left leg way in and keep the sleeve grip tight. pull them in. slide your right leg across their body and dig your arm under them to reach their inner right leg around the knee. dig your head in too. pull them in and sweep! Mount!

Class

Learned so much today!

1. Hand defense
2. Arm drag, pivot around leg, leg pull, take the back. Collar grip, corkscrew leg, choke
3. Arm wrap, push other arm threw, armbar
4. Shoulder lock to armbar
5. If someone gets butterfly guard on you and lifts you up, post with outer leg, twist hips and drive knee in to ground. from there, hook their upper leg with your foot (the same side as the knee you dropped down.) - move to mount.

NoGi notes

notes:
1. need to buy boardshorts
2. cup the back of the neck - tuck in your elbow
3. triangle setup - grab arm, push under, pop shoulder lock
4. sitting guard setup - cup back of neck, grab upper arm, butterfly sweep
5. rear naked choke notes - don't stretch them out, dig in deeper
6. grips: back of neck, upper arms, cup elbows, wrist grab, ankle grab, double under shoulder grab.


need to learn:
1. guillotine choke
2. passing guard

Working

Want to work on:

1. Bridging and escapes
2. Closed guard, collar and sleeve cross grip, threaten choke transition to triangle.
3. Right leg triangle
4. Arm drags

Things to try in class today

1. Pop a right leg triangle
2. Switch from triangle to armbar when they stand/stack
3. From the back, switch from leo's move to oli's armbar depending on opponents arm position.
4. Work on arm drags/power drags

Need to learn:
1. Escapes
2. Basic bridging