Path to Blue – Stripe 1
Drills:
1 Mount to Back Drill
2 Top Control Drill
3 Basic Guard work Drill
4 Basic Circuit
1 Mount to Back Drill One side starts on Mount. Our opponent tries to bridge us over his head. Our response is to drop our weight, spread our arms wide on the mat and touch our feet together behind his butt. Our opponent then tries to bridge us either to the left or to the right. Our response is to hook our opposite hand behind their neck and post our on our free hand (* our free hand is the one in the direction of the bridge)
Our partner then panics and starts to roll over, our response it to give him space to turn over to his hands and knees. We then sink the hooks (our heels in front of his thighs) and reach one arm under his armpit and grab his forearm. From there we drive our heels backwards, our hips forward and fold our arm back to remove the support of his arm, to flatten him out for the back choke.
2 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.
3: 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.
4. Basic Circuit
The basic circuit incorporates a series of fundamental movements and positions in BJJ
One person takes closed guard – legs crossed around the back of your partner
The other:
- Begins to pass the guard
- Posture up – straight back, looking straight ahead
- Control their chest with your left arm, their hips with your right
- Drive your right knee into the base of their spine and base your left leg out to about 7′oclock
- Keep your right thigh 90 degrees to their spine to prevent them sliding up your leg
- Bring your left palm to the inside of their right knee
- Push your hips back and push down with your palm to break their legs open – pull your right arm back to your hip simultaneously
- Get under their right leg with your left shoulder
- Touch their knee to their nose by driving off your feet in a straight line
- Keep that pressure on and walk your legs around to the left (their right side)
- Shrug their leg off your shoulder as you get round to 90 degrees
- Takes side-control
- Apply your weight chest to chest with your legs out behind you on the balls of your feet
- Control their far arm with your left arm and their near hip with your right
- Switches their Base
- Replace your right knee with your left knee and apply your weight to their face with your left lat
- Use your right foot to brace behind you in case they attempt to lift you off with their hips
- Grab their far knee with your right hand and pull their knees toward the floor
- Swat your right foot over to the other side of their hip without lifting your weight off
- Takes mount
- Keep your body low, slide your left arm to the left side of their body so you end up facing your partner
- Attempts a choke
- Sit up, grab high on their left collar with your left hand – fingers in grip – to threaten a choke
- Is reversed by a bridging escape
- Person underneath brings your elbow into the centre of their chest using both arms
- Blocks your left ankle with their right foot
- Bridges their hips up to drive you forward then rolls over to their right
The circuit begins again with the original positions reversed
