August 17, 2009

Monday BJJ class first class came late, stretched and observed. Urso was teaching some guard pulling. I did work in to the training 3 sets, Mike Light is a good blue belt, touogh decent technique and trains hard. He is in a tough spot as a good reasonably tought training partner he gets picked by the upper ranks. In a "beginner" class his three sets were Brian Rago, Zak and me. It will make him good or kill him. Good set, he is a sucker for the butterfly/regis sweep. can't stop it. he fights hard after that but he can't get away. Justin was next. His half guard is hard to pass, but once I got around it, he has a rib injury and it was quickly aggravated by me flattening him out. Then Tom, who I have trained with quite a bit lately. Like Mike he is a pretty good training partner, so gets the upper ranks for most sets. slightly better technique than Mike but, doesn't fight quite as hard.

Second class was good as Urso recapped the last few weeks by showing 7(!) X-Guard sweeps.

1. Get up sweep - key element to remember is to take the top leg /hook out to prevent them from running to the backside pass and come up away from them not into them.

2. sweep backwards by dropping the bottom hook, no new information.

3. catching the near sleeve - pass the leg over the head by really pushing uke with the hooks to make the leg toward the head light, he is grabbing the whole foot by the toes most of the time now to pass it. the grip the belt and take him backwards. If he runs forward keep the grip on the sleeve and come up behind him. Smash him to the ground or take his back.

4. Catch the far sleeve - He does this a little differently than me. He drops the top hookto the front of the ankle of the uke and scissors him down. this works well if you can't lift uke because he is too big or heavy. Not quite as clean as the one I do, but works well for all sizes.

5. you use when uke pushes towards you. Lift them straight up and straighten your legs. As uke slides down the leg keep the knee up and don't let him past it. catch the foot and sweep him backwards with pressure with the inside of the knee.

6. push the near sleeve and flip. - catch the near sleeve and push it towards ukes feet. This works best if uke has his hands down and is trying to push himself on top. but, you can force it by pushing the near hand towards the feet and lifting uke straight up and over his blocked shoulder, do a shaolin style backwards roll to the top side position.

7 Uke has his low knee down and pulls the low leg of tori up, so that you can't do the get up sweep. - Only saw this tech as I had to go to Judo. grab ukes far lapel with the hand towards uke's front. with the back hand block (don't grab) the hip of uke. you don't need the top hook. strong elbow escape movement underneath uke nad lift with the bottom hook and take him backwards.

Monday Judo
10 people
Covered Uchi Mata- They did well with it all in all. I can several of the lower ranks being Uchi Mata players. Chris S. tries but he won'tcan't make the adjustments I suggest and his technique suffers. Greg crashed on Z once badly. Greg thought he was clinging but regardless it was a bad fall to have to take. Flat and he landed on his nuts.

Randori. 3 sets Had Will first still late on the Hrais, but I threw several good belt grip sumi gaeshis. knocked each other down a few other times. next set had William. Never had a guy who has trained as long as he has and be a black belt as long as he has, grip so painfully. He catches skin on every sleev grip and spazzes quite a bit. border line dangerous if you can't control him. Threw him a few times but nothing too big. Last set was Eric S who has been training well. I hit a few good Ouchi Garis and a good yoko tomoe nage. he got a nice left drop seoi nage. all in all 3 good sets in that I trained hard and did ok, but still not hitting the harai.

Mat work we did getting the mount and escaping the mount. Went fine. 2 ne waza sets. I had will who is a sucker for any type of X-guard. He also has terrible technique for escaping depending on flexibility and effort rather than good technique. His matwork is solid and I enjoy working with him but regret he never did BJJ as he could be a purple by now without a doubt and be much better than he is. Second set had William. Just as annoying and spastic on the ground. He actually twisted my neck a bit and made me lose my temper. Upped the ante and began to play ugly forced an ugly armlock twice and ground on him. Not sure if I should say anything as he has been a black belt long before he was with us and may just think this is how to train, but playing like that will make me dangerous to him. I also will keep feeding him to tough guys as I don't have confidence that he is safe for the women and less experienced guys.

Side note - Greg and Z had an issue in ne waza. were arguing about it after class. Will monitor their behavior for awhile and see how they do. no history there fo either of them, so I am assuming an isolated incident. Won't put them together for a few months.