Thursday the 18th of December Fundamentals
2 new Blue’s last night.Dan and David so congratulations to you both.
1:Our partner had mount.We would bridge so to simulate banging their forehead into the mat.As they placed their hands down to stop this, we trapped their left arm and welded it to the centre of our chest, placed our right leg to the outside of their left ankle, and then bridged them,and rolled over our right shoulder.They would end up in our guard.We placed our hand in their sleeve.Hipped out to the right and swung our right leg across their stomach, pulled them forward and swept them over to mount(Basic Sweep).We would then start the drill again.
2:We had our partner on our hooks.We came up and got our right hand underhook, and left hand overhook.Placing our head lower than their chin we rolled over onto our left shoulder,and kicked our right hook up.This swept them over and we followed them over to mount.
3:Bridging escape:Our partner is on mount, with their hands spread out on the mat.We placed our hands in their hips(locking our elbows to our ribs).We brought our feet right up and bridged up.As we bridged we locked our arms straight suspending them in mid air leaving a gap to bring our knees through sitiing them on our hooks.The trick to this move is not physically trying to bench press our partner, but to use the bridge as leverage and then lock the arms.
3B:Exactly the same as drill 3 but when we brought the knees through and placed our partner on our hooks,we went through the over under sweep(Drill 2).
4:Elbow escape:Our partner has mount.We dropped our right leg to the mat,and locked our right elbow to their left knee.We hipped to the left to create space, enought to bring our right leg through.We then hipped to the right creating enough space to bring our right leg through.From here we had our partner on our hooks,and went through the over under dill 2 to sweep them to mount or side control.
5:We had a choice to drill one of the above depending on the situation our partner placed us in.
Geoff also explained he table analogy.A table will fall over if you take one of the legs away.This is the same as a sweep.All it takes is to take and arm or leg away,and to follow in that direction for the sweep.He also explained that is you commit to a move, then follow through.It takes alot more effort to change something half way through.
Last class is Wednesday the 24th of december and classes will return on the 4th of Jan.Keep an eye out on the forum as there might be some people rolling in between.
