Thursday the 16th of April Fundamentals
1:Tonights class we started with our partner on our hooks,and we were lying on our backs.(a)We came up and got the double overhooks,pulled our partner off their base,and lay on our backs again,then came up and let them go so they were sitting on our hooks again,and lay on our backs again(b)again came up and got the double underhooks,pulled them of their base and lay back down again,then came up,let them go so they were sitting on our hooks again,and lay on our backs(c)came up again and got the right arm underhook and the left arm overhook,pulled them off their base and lay back down again,then came up so they were sitting on our hooks again,and lay back down(d)came up and got the left arm underhook and the right arm overhook,and pulled them off their base,and lay back down again,repeating the drill over and over.Note our partner would post their hands down on the mat to avoid being face planted.
2:Here we were standing and our partner was facing us and had their hands on our shoulders( an Arms lenght apart).We caught their left hand by placing out right ear towards our right shoulder.We then placed our right hand just above their elbow(so that the palm was facing out partner), and clasped out palms together.We then twisted and tweeked their arm down slowly for the tap.
3:Here we had side control and the underhook on our partner.They had their underhook hand grabbing the back of our Gi.We sat back and postured up sitting on our heels while catching their hand between our ear and shoulder..We then jumped up onto our feet so, our right shin was in their stomach,and our left shin was in their face.We put our palms on their elbow again and teeeked it for the tap.
4:Side control again and we had the underhook.We went for the fig 4 but our partner straightened their arm out.We captured the arm with our left hand,cammando walked across the other side of them to put our chest on the other side,placed our left shin in their throat,then brought our right foot across so our knee was on the opposite side.We then felt for the elbow and push it slowly up towards our stomach, for the Tap.
5:Here we had Guard on our partner and they made the mistake of putting their right hand on the mat.With our right hand snuck it in behind their right armpit to capture their arm.We placed thier hand between our left shoulder and ear.We hipped out to the left a little to make space,placed both hands just behind the elbow,and twweked it slowly for the tap.
6:Same setup as drill 5.This time our partner pulled their arm back before we could grab it so we grabbed their right hand at the Gi cuff and pulled it over to the right hand side of our body,as if to face plant them(making sure that our chest was blocking their bicep,so they couldn’t pull the arm back) and slightly shifted our body to the left..We let go our our legs and came up from guard,and swung our left arm over to their left lat,or the left side of the belt.We then ducked under them until they were slightly off balance(this could take a few shuffles under),and reached our right hand under and down to grab their left side Gi pants at the ankle.We cresent kicked our right leg up,and rolled over our left shoulder.Note make sure you latch yourself to them as you roll over.This is one of Geoff’s favourite sweeps
