Thursday the 7th of February Fundamentals
First of all we started with the basic sweep
1:This is when we have our partner in guard with left hand gripping their collar and the other grabbing their (in this case) left hand in the centre of our chest.We then place our legs on the mat and hip out to the right bringing our right leg across their stomach.Still keeping the grip in the collar we pull our partner towards us,at the same time sweeping them with our left leg.This should take us onto the mount position.
2: The next sweep was still the guard position, and still going for the basic sweep only this time, dragging the arm across our body.This example is the right arm.We then came up and hugged our partner placing out left hand under their left armpit.This does 2 things.1 Traps the arm so they can’t pull it out, 2 sets us up to go back under our partner at least 3 times to bring them to a 90 degree angle, so as to off balance them. We then kicked our right leg to the top of our left should and sissor sweeped our partners opposite leg bringing us to mount and still being able to trap the right arm
3:The next sweep was a variation of sweep number 2.We still trap the arm, and go under at least 3 times, but this time we cuff the Gi pants.The lower we can get with this the better (preferably down by our partners ankle).We then drop left leg and kick right to left shoulder and lift up our partners leg we have cuffed.This should bring us to a point we can dismount into side control
4:Here is another variation on sweep 3.We have gone to all the trouble of setting things up(Going under, grabbing the right leg etc) only this time they post the opposite leg(in this case the right leg) which means we can’t get the sweep.We grab their left arm and trap it behind our right ear(remember they are still off balance from our under under under technique)only this time we do a left kick to our right shoulder and sweep with our right leg
5:This last sweep was from hooks guard and called the arm drag sweep.We grab their right arm at the collar and launch ourselves back taking our partners arm with them.we then place our right arm in between there both arms and fall back,kicking our right leg up and left leg out.Our partner is swept onto his back and we trap his right arm in between our elbow and knee.We then spin around and come up onto our right shoulder placing all our weight into our partners chest.This puts alot of pressure on them.With our right arm now we come up under their right armpit and grab the collar.(Remembering that we still have our right shoulder in their chest).We then bring our left hand to the opposite side of the collar-thumb in and bring our forearm across their throat and drop our weight onto the floor in a side control position for the choke.
