Tuesday 3/7/6

251 this morning.
BJJ from 6-7. Interesting position from the botom half guard. when you have transitioned to directly beneath them, with their knee next to your head, protect your arm by tucking it inide your leg or elsewhere. if they cannot attack the arm, they must sit around to the half guard pass from the opposite side. from the bottom, switch your hooks so that the outside hook (the one away from where uke is going) is underhooking the entangled leg, but keep the other leg on top to protect from the pass. when he passes his leg past the head to go to the opposite side kick the hook in a perpendicular directionand slide from beneath uke, coming up behind him. put the hooks in and attack the back.
when attacking the back, take both hooks and both lapels pull down on the lapels to open the collars. suddenly shoot your grip acoss as deeply as possible. as they defend, punch your grip deeper and regrip. apply choke.

3-8 minute sets. rolled with Regis. He was all over me, but i managed to threaten a sweep once and only gave up one tap. a few decent pass attempts but he blocked and went back to a guard.
Had Amir. he is a solid white belt. i tapped him a few times to make sure he knew that I could but, i thought he played well. last Set was Brian R. he is toough. I swept him and had several near passes but his half guard is extremely tight. he also clings to it very tightly. i was letting myself get frustrated. I changed sides and tried different passes, but i never scored points. I think he is the toughest blue belt, we have.

Regis wasn't going for the advanced class, I proposed. He thinks we need to work more on our fundamentals, and too many of the upper ranks will come for a few weeks, then it will be just a few people in class.

I taugt the white belt class (Amir, Bill, Mike, erickson, and Mira). taught several of the self defense techniques and then did splitting the guard and the bull pass.