Thrusday 15th Fundamentals
Continuing on our theme of getting back to basics, tonight we covered the Guard Work Drill and the Top Control Drill. As well as working the escape to our knees from side control.
As the mat was Blue Belt free we took our time and went into quite a bit of detail on each of the first stripe drills to ensure that everyone had a good grasp of what they were trying to achieve.
Escape Side Control to our Knees: Starting stuck in side control we first make attempts to secure the underhook – With our partner on our right side our underhook would be our left hand under their right arm. – While we attempt to get the underhook at the same time we use the bucking and bridging motion to turn on our side to face our partner, effectively pre-empting the escape. Once we secure the underhook we then continue to hip out until our head ends up under our partners belly and we a lying face down in front of them. We then drive our legs into our body and get under their base.
Basic Guard Work Drill: One person in Closed guard preforms the basic guard pass, passing around to side control and looking to attack the far arm. Other partner then preforms the basic side control escape putting their partner back into their closed guard. Repeat the drill again.
Top Control Drill: One side starts on their back with the other partner securing a basic side control position -one hand blocking the hip the other hand controlling the far shoulder with a over hook, legs out straight, driving on the balls of our feet. From there we move around to top control and shift our grips slightly then move around to the other side of our partner and secure side control on the other side of their body. We then switch our base and mount- as we do for the basic circuit – we then dismount to side control and then repeat the drill again.
