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!