Armbars:
•shin-in armbar: from kneeling and facing each other, wiper-motion with your legs the one that comes under will go to the armpit. If you're holding their right arm, your right leg wipes under and roll onto your back and press your right shin into their armpit as you pull on the arm. Make sure your back is nice and curled and you elevate your hips, the mechanics will take care of the rest as you roll and turn them over. Try to go from facing 12:00 to 6:00 in order to put yourself into a good armbar position.
You can grip arm+lapel, arm+neck, armpit+underhook their knee etc. the details aren't as important. If you don't get the rotation from your larger body movements, then you'll end up pulling them on top of you and then you will be screwed.
•shin-in armbar from standing: press your shin into their waist, right at the belt-line and pull against them. Again for the rt arm attack, begin to squat on your posted leg and press with your right leg. The push-pull action will help you turn properly from 12:00 to 6:00 as before^and as your leg flexes-fully/butt hits the mat, clear your left leg over their head. Your right shin will end up in their armpit and all will be well from there.
•flying armbar: Similar to the first one, you're getting your shin into the armpit. But this time you're jumping into it. Be sure to get the push-pull/rotation, you don't want to land North/North with them, rather turned perpendicular. With the right shin in, your right shoulder should head towards their right foot. Think of what a forward roll would be for your opponent and that is how you want to follow them.
•flying with cross-body legs: this one is a little more rad for the guy jumping. The ground drill we've done is to start from sitting with legs straight out and roll-over onto your shoulders and back to a sitting position. So from standing, I like to attack their left arm. My left leg swings up along their waist, as I contact I'll roll my leg so my toe points away from them, at this point you've gotta be fully committed and swing your leg up and over their face and keep your head tucked. If you just commit to the sucker and stay smooth, it works out fine. If you can do the ground version of this, then your body only needs a few tries with jumping. The rest is psychology and higher-order thinking getting in the way of things again.
follow-ups:
•with shin@waist, your opp. frees the arm you're attacking, drop your leg down and inside hook the leg as you duck under and reach beyond them for a cross-body+inside trip. I'll post a more detailed description of this later, I'm sick of typing this shit already.
•with focus-mitts: knee to the body then either 1. standing shin@waist or 2. jumping shin-in armbar. If you can pull of the second one, then you are freaking Hollywood itself!! :-)
Monday, November 17, 2008
Sunday Oct 26th
duck-unders:
drill: standing partner holds hands out and you duck under&grab them with either:
•single leg; use your lead arm to push their extended arms up, don't try to grab their arm/wrist/don't try to grab just push up as you shoot-in. As you come in, bring your cross-arm to a high crotch pickup. From there you can step and turn so that you can shrug them over to their back.
•double-leg; push with your lead arm again and instead of sending the cross-arm in for a hi-crotch, reach around their body. If you're going right-hand lead then you reach around with your left and keeping your head on your right side so that you shoulder-block with your left side and then bring your right arm around. Clamp at the hips/femur conection, below the buttocks. Lift slightly to get them off their feet and drive to your left, using your head&neck to press their body. Don't go to your right corner and stuff your head onto the mat-having them land on top of your skull,k?
•A nice single-double followup=if the opponent sprawls the single-leg down, just follow it and then-the moment their foot hits the mat-pick them up with a double.
pummeling drills into throws:
•working pummels for underhooks: your opp gets one underhook on you, as they're bringing the next one in simply grip that arm@top of elbow and turn with the arm sliding your other-underhooked-arm over their head and spin out into a head-lock throw. For people having trouble with this, start with one underhook and hold the arm that they'll send under you. Let your opponent lead your action by stabbing this arm by you.
•footwork/finishing variations:
1.deep backstep and into an Uki-Goshi/hip-axle throw. Your back-step has to be very deep so that you can turn as if you are trying to sling them across your back like hanging a dead-moose over the back of your horse. If you are head-locking with your left arm, then you want to be turned so much that your right hip is against them.
2. Shuai-jiao step, drop-levels quickly to avoid trying to muscle this throw, use as much elastic energy as you can. You want to feel "springy" when you land in the lunge posture, not "core-activated' or some-such nonesense.
3. headlock and drop knee. this works if they base against you so you can't set up the other two throws. Drop the outside knee and forward roll while hanging onto them.
*we did some other stuff but I forgot to write it down!* anyone 'member?
anyone...
anyone...
drill: standing partner holds hands out and you duck under&grab them with either:
•single leg; use your lead arm to push their extended arms up, don't try to grab their arm/wrist/don't try to grab just push up as you shoot-in. As you come in, bring your cross-arm to a high crotch pickup. From there you can step and turn so that you can shrug them over to their back.
•double-leg; push with your lead arm again and instead of sending the cross-arm in for a hi-crotch, reach around their body. If you're going right-hand lead then you reach around with your left and keeping your head on your right side so that you shoulder-block with your left side and then bring your right arm around. Clamp at the hips/femur conection, below the buttocks. Lift slightly to get them off their feet and drive to your left, using your head&neck to press their body. Don't go to your right corner and stuff your head onto the mat-having them land on top of your skull,k?
•A nice single-double followup=if the opponent sprawls the single-leg down, just follow it and then-the moment their foot hits the mat-pick them up with a double.
pummeling drills into throws:
•working pummels for underhooks: your opp gets one underhook on you, as they're bringing the next one in simply grip that arm@top of elbow and turn with the arm sliding your other-underhooked-arm over their head and spin out into a head-lock throw. For people having trouble with this, start with one underhook and hold the arm that they'll send under you. Let your opponent lead your action by stabbing this arm by you.
•footwork/finishing variations:
1.deep backstep and into an Uki-Goshi/hip-axle throw. Your back-step has to be very deep so that you can turn as if you are trying to sling them across your back like hanging a dead-moose over the back of your horse. If you are head-locking with your left arm, then you want to be turned so much that your right hip is against them.
2. Shuai-jiao step, drop-levels quickly to avoid trying to muscle this throw, use as much elastic energy as you can. You want to feel "springy" when you land in the lunge posture, not "core-activated' or some-such nonesense.
3. headlock and drop knee. this works if they base against you so you can't set up the other two throws. Drop the outside knee and forward roll while hanging onto them.
*we did some other stuff but I forgot to write it down!* anyone 'member?
anyone...
anyone...
Sunday Oct 19th:
wizzer, Russian 2on1 and Vertuchka day
wizzer:
•with their arm across your back, underhook and drive your arm across their waist, or take a lapel-grip@the far collar. Push@the waist/pull@lapel and drive your shoulder into them to break posture
•step under and Uchimata/mule-kick throw, move "foot-to-foot" so that you get under them as much as you can, your belt should be below theirs or you won't get any power from your hips.
•for no-gi, a more reliable takedown is to break posture and use your free hand to press their head down as if you were encouraging them to do a forward roll. See Asashoryou for the best example.
•if your opp. steps back from the uchimata, then step around&behind them, with explosiveness please, into the sumo-squat chair throw. Be sure to rotate your chest into them as you hit the throw, as if you were to clothesline them with your free arm
•if your opp.bases equally so you can't get behind or across them, you can hit the vertuchka sacrifice: a 2on1 grip with the jacket or just send your free-arm under like you are upper-cutting their armpit with the inside of your elbow.
•if their far-foot steps forward, the Ko-uchi-splitz is about the most badassest thing you can pull off. Instead of just hooking and tripping the foot jump into a standing split hooking the back of their leg as you reach with your free arm. The advantage of this is you aren't bent over to catch the top of the foot and you don't have to break their posture, your level change into the split will take care of that.
some counters to all this:
•lift their near leg and push into the far corner, against their heel. Just bowl them over.
•Bodok back throw: single-leg squat and extend the other leg directly perpendicular to their centerline. Look to the back corner as you hit the mat.
•then we did the same Bodok setup as a way to turn over the turtle. We've done it before where you press the extended leg into their hip and pull them over that way. This variant is you have a wizzer-hold on the arm and you go the other direction: squatting leg@head and roll them that way-pressing hard with your locked arm. Turnout into an almost-lunge as you look thru.
fun:
•then we did in&out to uppercut/hook, start the wizzer to break posture then step slightly out and turn in for a punch (we used focus mitts ok?). Make sure the footwork is good, it matters more than a solid punch. Use a box-step-pattern to train this on your own.
wizzer:
•with their arm across your back, underhook and drive your arm across their waist, or take a lapel-grip@the far collar. Push@the waist/pull@lapel and drive your shoulder into them to break posture
•step under and Uchimata/mule-kick throw, move "foot-to-foot" so that you get under them as much as you can, your belt should be below theirs or you won't get any power from your hips.
•for no-gi, a more reliable takedown is to break posture and use your free hand to press their head down as if you were encouraging them to do a forward roll. See Asashoryou for the best example.
•if your opp. steps back from the uchimata, then step around&behind them, with explosiveness please, into the sumo-squat chair throw. Be sure to rotate your chest into them as you hit the throw, as if you were to clothesline them with your free arm
•if your opp.bases equally so you can't get behind or across them, you can hit the vertuchka sacrifice: a 2on1 grip with the jacket or just send your free-arm under like you are upper-cutting their armpit with the inside of your elbow.
•if their far-foot steps forward, the Ko-uchi-splitz is about the most badassest thing you can pull off. Instead of just hooking and tripping the foot jump into a standing split hooking the back of their leg as you reach with your free arm. The advantage of this is you aren't bent over to catch the top of the foot and you don't have to break their posture, your level change into the split will take care of that.
some counters to all this:
•lift their near leg and push into the far corner, against their heel. Just bowl them over.
•Bodok back throw: single-leg squat and extend the other leg directly perpendicular to their centerline. Look to the back corner as you hit the mat.
•then we did the same Bodok setup as a way to turn over the turtle. We've done it before where you press the extended leg into their hip and pull them over that way. This variant is you have a wizzer-hold on the arm and you go the other direction: squatting leg@head and roll them that way-pressing hard with your locked arm. Turnout into an almost-lunge as you look thru.
fun:
•then we did in&out to uppercut/hook, start the wizzer to break posture then step slightly out and turn in for a punch (we used focus mitts ok?). Make sure the footwork is good, it matters more than a solid punch. Use a box-step-pattern to train this on your own.
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