Tonight I did some off-curriculum stuff with Grant. We worked on grappling:

1. sweeping someone from the guard and regaining the mount
2. americana (keylock) shoulder lock
3. cross arm lock from the mount
4. arm lock from the guard
5. triangle choke from the guard
6. omoplata (shoulder lock) from the guard - ran out of time on this one


second half of class was back to curriculum stuff.

1. various holds, but all leading to an ankle-thigh takedown
2. body drop throw with arm lock and knees on ribs/BPO afterthrows.

I circulated some of the new flyers that I made on the weekend. I'm keeping some in the car now in case i see an ideal place to post them while i'm out and about.

Trevor's recovering from some kind of stomach bug - he said he should be there on wednesday. Tonight it was Grant and me again. I finished off working the yellow belt hold escapes with double rear arm pins, full nelsons, and bear hug from the side. I introduced the finger come-a-long when we did the double rear arm pin. We spent the last 30 minutes going over hip throws and body drop throws. Grant has experience in other martial arts, though he only claims to have done Judo when he was a kid. He picked up on the hip throw and body drop throws instantly and his breakfalls were excellent!

Tonight was just Trevor and me. We started off with some breakfalls and going over some new takedowns: collar takedown (both grabbing collar and hooking over shoulders as well as pushing knee forward and sweeping at the tibial nerve), inner wrist lock takedowns from the front and side, and jugular notch.

After working on the inner wrist lock takedowns, I started incorporating them into wrist-grab hold escapes as variations. I also showed Trevor a few new afterthrows: shoulder lock and a turnover into the handcuffing position. Later we did another turnover, the "rowing the boat" armbar turn-over using your shin and finishing with an arm pin.

To finish off class we reviewed the hip throw and started on the body drop throw from a hook punch.

Lastly, I played around with some more grappling moves: if Uke is in Tori's guard:
1. uke scoops tori's knee to pass the guard into side control
2. tori counters by a) turning to his side and planting his leg on the ground and trapping uke's hand between the leg and mat or b) Tori allows uke to scoop his knee and uses that lift to pop his knee up onto uke's shoulder and execute a triangle choke.
3. counter to 2a) if uke is scooping tori's right leg with his left arm and gets it trapped, uke will bring his toes up to tori's thigh and put his shin on tori's anterior femoral and come across to put his knee on the mat "stepping over" the leg and has his right hand on the mat around tori's left hip for balance. if uke doesn't leave his toes on the mat and use his foot to lock tori's leg, tori can counter this by grabbing the hand that uke is using for balance and execute an arm lock like we worked on on Monday.

Grappling is like a human chess match. you have to goad and lure your opponent into doing something that you want them to do, but not having them realize that you tricked them into it.