Category: Fitness

Good day for some standing guillotines.

I grab the back of their head with my right arm, in order to break their posture down. I control their right arm with my left, grabbing their arm around where their elbow is, controlling it back. I posture the top of my head into their neck, as to avoid a possible bite, as well as pushing them back. When they resist being pushed back, I snap their head down and to the left, under my left arm. My left arm comes up under their chin while I grab my left wrist with my right hand. I posture down to create more base, while lifting my left arm up into their neck. This is the Guillotine ?.

The defence is, when I am in a Guillotine, with the arm on their body side free, I swing it up and over their body, coming down their back along side their head. I drop my weight onto them through my arm. I block their hip with my other free hand. To avoid them pulling guard. I move my body around theirs, backing away from the side my head is on. This allows me to get a leg behind their leg, and sweep them to the ground. From here I want to dig my shoulder into their neck, putting my weight through the shoulder, with my weight up onto my toes. With the arm which is not cross facing them, I can then peel the guillotine off, and rotate my chest and head up to the sky.

Heel hooks..

While sitting, I want their right leg over my left. I will put my right foot under their right thigh, and my left foot on their left leg, not crossing the top of their leg. I will pinch my legs together to hold them, and push them away to have their ankle where I want it. I want their ankle under my left shoulder and I will use the bone of my left wrist to cut into their Achilles. With my left elbow pointing out, I will lift my wrist against their Achilles. I can put the sub on more by then wrapping my elbow back, and roll onto my left side, and I can then, if need be, look back moving the pressure to the top of their foot.

Sweep to heel hook:

While sitting with them standing, with hooks in, put my left elbow on the inside of my knee, and my left hand around the back of their knee. I push their right knee away, while pulling their left leg towards me. I can roll backward, while pulling the back of their knee into a heel hook. Then pushing my right hand against their right knee, I can sweep them.

Alright. Went over a huge amount of stuff re take downs and take down defence, then a baseball bat choke.

Take-downs:

• Keep weight mainly on the front foot
• Keep one hand low near the leading leg to defend against single leg take-downs.
• keep elbows in tight
• keep eye focus just above their eye level, level shifting as necessary

Take-down eg method (gi)

• With my rear hand grab their collar.
• Grab above my rear hand with my front hand on their collar.
• Jerk them down maintaining tension at all times on their gi, moving backward to again the grip loosening. When they react by pulling up, switch to a single leg take-down, and lift their leg by their ankle.

Baseball bat choke

• left hand goes deep in their collar, fingers out of the gi, thumb grabbing the collar.
• Right hand goes fingers in the gi, thumb on the outside, bringing the right hand right up against the left.
• rotating butt around towards them and moving my elbow against their throat, slowly sit down and roll them over you.
• The choke can be finished from here.

All these methods really deserver a bunch of attention.

I really think having a half hour nap followed by 20 minutes of meditation has really helped my focus to prepare for Jujitsu training.

Today we started with standing guard pass prevention. Continue reading “Bjj Thursday”

Went over the sweep from guard again, but added a nice touch; if they post what to do. Also a better set-up for the sweep.

Set-up

1. I have them in my guard. I will control their left arm, so grab it with my right arm. I put two arms onto their arm and push it to their belly. I’ll pull their elbow towards me with my left arm. Then I’ll smear my right arm across theirs and grab behind their right arm with my right. Smearing to prevent their hand from escaping, and holding their hand down with my elbow. I’ll then raise my hips. Drop them down while I drag their arm over to my right.
2. In the same movement, I’ll grab an underhook with my left arm, I can lock my hands together now in a gable grip. If I shift my arms up their body, I can make the grip above their shoulder, weakening their left arm.
3. Now I want to shift my position so that I can prepare my right leg to sweep them over, moving myself under them and making space to my left, for them to fall into.
4. I can grab a deep hook on their right leg with my right arm, while holding a strong underhook with my left hand in their arm-pit

Sweep..

1. Now I can sweep them, if this fails, I can move to plan B.
2. If they post on their right leg, then I will need to switch.
3. Only if I can’t sweep them, going as far as to almost pull them over my head I will switch.
   I need to block their left arm from posting with my right arm and hook their right leg with my left, switching the sweep and sweeping them the other way.
4. Done 🙂

I have a sore back, I’m going to up my Stron Bone intake tomorrow… Missed S&C this week -_-

Low energy Bjj session which was none the less beneficial.

• Learned an interesting sweep from guard.
  From guard control one of their hands on my stomach.
  This can be swept across their body and then wrap my leg over their head into an arm bar. Important to have a good amount of angle to their torso, ideally right angle.
  Also possible to make a sweep. Before throwing my leg up and over, I can grab their leg with my free arm and sweep them. I should definitely practice this.
• Defending standing back control.
  They wrap their arms low around your waist, giving them the option to lift you for a throw/take down.
  You drop your weight first, making life super difficult for them.
  Grab both their arms and wrap a leg around their leg, after dropping.
  Set up a kimora. Grab one of their arms with my opposite arm, say their right with my left. Move my right arm around behind their elbow. Dig my left thumb behind their arm, while moving back and forth to create space for my right arm to come behind theirs. Wrap my right hand onto my left wrist, setting up a kimora. Maintaining the grip while dropping. Once they let go, rotate around and sit down. I can pull them over my head while throwing their butt with my leg between their legs. Once they roll over, it is possible for me to take side control and kimora them. putting a leg over their head if need be.