As a continuation of my public notebook: I started a new daily blogging challenge to begin solidifying the learning that I’m doing while training jiu jitsu. 

Notes: Monday July 8th

6p Class:

Warmup circuit (leg spins, rocking triangle, sit throughs)

Same-side collar grip takedown: 

1. Break their collar grip, (grabbing on inside of hand, cupping the bottom, and shooting upwards). When you have a hold of their wrist, silmoutainously shoot for a same-side collar grip with the other hand. 
2. Lower your center of gravity, squatting down and putting your weight on them. Straighten and lock out the arm that is holding their wrist. This makes them easier to control. 
3. Step out in the direction of their arm, eliciting a reaction. You want their foot to be extended forwards. 
4. Pull their arm down towards their front foot, let go of your arm grip and shoot for the ankle. Grab their ankle like a lever. Push your collar grip forward while pulling their foot towards you.

6-point arm bar from guard drill:

• 2-on-1 grip to direct their arm across their body. Put your foot to the hip the arm is being taken from. Rotate with your weight on them to break their posture, opposite leg creeping up their back into their armpit. Put your leg posted on their hip over their head. Extend to finish. *Keep knees tight, thumb to sky*

Rolling:

• 2x shark-tank style
  • *Play around. Try things. Be bold. Don’t care about winning. Try something new and have fun.*

7:30p Class:

(Six options from closed guard. All moves start from initial attack, 2-on-1 wrist & tricep control of their arm).

6-point arm bar from guard:

• Important: break their posture by pulling their arm across and keep their posture broken by driving leg into their arm pit, heavy on their lat.

Flower sweep from guard:

• Important: keep control of their arm all throughout.  As they are falling to their back from the sweep, smack away their defending arm before you bridge straight to arm bar.

Back take from guard:

• Important: if you’re attacking their right arm, have a dominant grip with your right hand.  Lift locked ankles to the ceiling as you shrimp slightly out to make space to drive their shoulder to the mat.

Kimura from guard:

• Important: as they’re pulling the arm back to defend against any of the above three, rotate your grip on their wrist for the proper kimura set-up.  To time this correctly, you are doing the initial attack as a “bait” move to get them to pull their arm away from their body.  It will be hard to secure the kimura without exploiting their defense to something else.

Razor arm bar from guard:

• Important: swim your underhook deep as soon as you see daylight under their armpit as they’re defending against any of the above four attacks.  Lock hands in a gable grip and stay tight to their shoulder.  Crunching the shoulder if you are strong enough may in some cases elicit a tap.  Otherwise, slide your gable grip down to right above their elbow on the tricep tendon.  If you don’t have enough space to hyperextend their arm, rotate to your shoulder to create more space between their elbow and your chest.

Butterfly sweep from Razor lock to mount:

• Important: keeping tight shoulder control with the underhook & gable grip, swim your butterfly hook to their opposite hamstring.  Sit up tight into them to load the butterfly sweep.  As you sit up, your non-butterfly-hook foot posts strong on the ground to give you the power to effect the kickover bridge.