sunday Oct 12th

roll, roll, roll

I've explained this too much already!

fwd roll+far ankle pick:

•grapevine the near leg from standing

•keep your legs "framed" as shown and just roll thru to the far ankle, over-reach with your arm, try to get the ankle into your armpit

•it's like the "screwing step" Kadoch vid, if you've watched that one I sent to you, or think of it like the trailing leg in a wrestler's shoot where you press off the toe and move forward off the ankle-extension.

•with your legs in the "rollover frame" you'll have perfect control of the grapevined leg and you are free to attack the overhooked leg. Don't underhook the leg ok?

Victor roll:

•same standing grapevine and all, reach your hand thru you posted leg and the grapevined leg, not between his legs or outside of your legs or whatever. Just think of reaching thru your own two legs

•the deeper you roll, the safer and faster this is, especially if they try to sprawl vs this attack. This is why I like to do it off the grapevine as its harder to sprawl defensively.

• roll thru and secure the over/under calf-crush with your legs on the far leg and attack the kneebar on the near leg. If you've rolled smooth and deep, it should be easy to get the sub, like serving up a slice of pie.

lunge back-step, near-ankle attack:

•this is the cool, Yoga-lookin' thing that Jud really likes. Same grapevine from standing but send your free leg behind the both of you, as far across as you can, like with the victor roll the more you commit- the softer, faster, more fluid it will be

•catch the near ankle as you hit the mat, it's good to release the grapevine a moment before you catch the ankle so you don't hyper-flex your partner's knee, your leg will just travel knee-knee and underhook the far-leg with out any thought or intent. It all just happens out of getting the biggest movement correct.

•you can throw the lunging leg over and get the same over/under calf-crush as before, but you have to be a little more deliberate about that

sacrifice sit-squat:

•same grapevine setup, now just pretend the grape'd leg is your own and squat straight down, hip-into your partner slightly. It won't happen immediately but they will collapse

•roll up your back and keep the grapevine hook so you can just "kick" the trapped leg into your hands for an easy kneebah

sacrifice back roll:

•this time, hop in front of your opp. keeping the grape'd hold and use the springing effect to launch them to your back corner. You have to hop your foot as deeply under them as you can; go even deeper than you think you can so that you increase the leverage effect of this throw. Get it right and they fly right over your hunched up lil'body!

sunday Oct 5th

How do people have time for this crap? *sigh*

We spent the morning doing almost every roll we could cover as a warmup so that we were ready for:

Backwards Granby Roll:

the idea is simple, instead of rolling into your opponent so that you can get a pin-position, we roll to the outside so that we can get to a scarf/North-South position.

•your opp has an arm around your waist, roughly in a referee's position, trap the arm and hold it to your waist-line

•roll to the outside, think of the trapped arm as an axle to turn over, roll over your shoulders with commitment and they'll follow you over nicely- or get their head stuffed!

•you can also reach over the trapped arm and catch the leg on the same side. It's kind of like a 5-point Granby, if you don't know what that is don't worry about it. This way you'll come over into a side-cradle that is very efective positioning

•from standing it is the same, just with footwork adjustments: either drop-knee into the direction or your roll or backstep your lead-leg behind and roll into that impetus.

Bodok/fireman's carry:

all that was simple huh? Well IMO, the same thing but turned on its head-so to speak- is the Bodok

•step-in between your opp's legs and send your hand hi-crotch at the same time, move one side of your body as a unit

•pull@sleeve/elbow-grip and look thru the arm you are attacking, get the nape of your neck into the armpit like you are defending a Guillotine

this sets up the "shoulder-roll" part of the throw, instead of your shoulders hitting the floor, they're hitting your opp and it should basically feel the same: shoulder to shoulder as you move through the throw.

•kick your trailing leg out to side, directly across, this creates an "outrigger" that you end up driving off of. There is a triangulation of extended foot/planted foot/extended hi-crotch hook.

•look-thru past where you are throwing your opponent, they should land so you're N and S of each other. Anything less and you've stuffed the throw or fallen short on your follow through!

sunday sept 28th

ground warmup drills:

•hip switch on top of supine partner: nice and tricky, be sure to send your "switching" leg as far under yourself as you can

•float vs. turtle: can't really do this enough, like everything else...

•sidemount pop-overs: shoulder on solar-plexus of opp. kip-hips and legs up and over from one side to another

•pop-over and gather up legs as you land on the other side

duck-unders and doubles

•man-purse pickup

•overhand punch vs mitt and pickup

•pickup/single leg+

-ankle block

-knee block

-floating sprawl

sunday, sept 22nd

groundwork day

I drilled the hell out of everybody as punishment for my back feeling so tweaked. I wanted to see everyone suffer. I was pleased...

movement drills, 1 min each then rotate partners:

•lying side by side, head to foot: at "go" situp and fight for side/scarf-control

•sitting back to back: at "go" spin around and establish dominant position

30 second drills

•turtle rides. float clockwise/counterclockwise, stay on your toes and keep your CofG pressed into your turtled partner

•BBJ-ball rides: partner takes/maintains a balled-up posture, tries to use as little hand/foot hooking as possible, just move around on back and try to keep your opp. riding your shins/unable to open up your legs

•standing duck-under drills: left side and right side

•standing duck-under+single leg: press up with lead hand and send cross-hand underhooking leg to hi-crotch

•standing duck-under+double-leg: grab at the base of hip rotators

groundwork:

•key#1 rollovers vs mount

•key#3 rollovers vs mount

•foot-scissors rollover vs mount

•hip-switch rollover vs mount

resolve

I shall catch up on this blog, I've just been so busy and away from the computer that it's become difficult to stay on top of this project.

One thing about our classes, I watch you guys during the warmup and even if I've come in with specific things I want to work on, I always end up adjusting it. Sometimes I'm scrapping it altogether and making shit up as I go (not as in what to do technically!) but I might stop the progression or take a different direction. I get feedback from seeing who showed up and how you all are moving.

If anyone wants to break out of the warmup&breakfall/Sambo-Parkour routines, by all means go ahead. I just stay on this stuff as I think its very important. I also want to be sure we're active and moving for a good 1&1/2-2hrs. I've always felt that staying moving like this was a good training regimin.

I recently found some validation for this thinking:

"According to our definition, endurance begins at 90 minutes, the point when fueling, hydration, thermal regulation and a host of other factors take on a greater influence than during shorter efforts."

-Mark Fucking Twight

Sunday the 14th

•T.K.A day: step&hook, inside of foot to outside of partner's foot, lift slightly and snap-over the trapped foot. As a drill, take up the foot and stutter-step while holding the foot-hooked so that you're hopping on one leg and shuffling forward.

some points:

• step and expand, "like a big peacock"
• hips forward, don't turn out/away from your opponent
• change posture from hollowed to expanded chest

•TKA with a follow-up: if the opponent steps that foot back, swing knee up and over in a knee circle and step/lunge deeply back across the front of your partner. Knee down, toe to the mat, heel up. Its the "shuai jao" style throw. We did something very similar with Kurrinoy.

•cross-side inside trip: same as the "TKA" but attack the cross-side foot so that partner steps out, turn away from the oppoent and switch hips dropping from one side to the other and swing backward into the throw. This is a front trip/podnoshka, not a hip-throw, the mechanics are wrong for this here.

Sunday the 7th

•foot-sweep foot-work: starting with a timing exercise, where the partner hops in place and you check their ankle with the sole of your foot. Do this without looking down, then try do this without looking at all. Get a feel for the input/feedback through jacket-grips. This helps avoid telegraphing your attack, and getting a rapid-reflex that you won't get with looking and thinking.

•upper-body snap: turn your body&hands as if you are dumping a bucket of water. The foot starts a circle that the hands complete, so that your foot slides forward for the sweep and your hands pull-back against that directional swipe.

•in motion: stepping side to side together, simultaneously, use your trailing foot to sweep under your partner's trailing foot and sweep out both feet together. If your partner looks like he just slipped off his skateboard, it's the right timing.

• also: same side to side movement but back-step with the trailing foot and then sweep it around and attack your partner's feet with a sweep as before. It is a tricky variant, but effective for breaking your opponent's posture

•in motion again: now, instead of sweeping from behind, use an inner-thigh block at the hip and turn-out from the direction of movement. You can also plant the foot and steer your opponent over the blocking leg. Think of shoving them over a fence that's about hip height.


After that I got really tired and didn't have anything left for more so you goobers were on your own there....phew!