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: Sunday July 7th

Back take from closed guard:

1. Break their right belt grip with a 2-on-1 grip.
2. Shoot their right arm across your body with the focus of getting their right shoulder to the mat. At the same time bringing your still-locked ankles to the ceiling. Slightly shrimp out, to clear space for their shoulder to hit the mat.
3. Reach your left arm across their back and get a tight handle on their lat muscle/armpit, keeping your left leg heavy on their back.
4. Once you have established the grip, open the guard and slide your right heel to their right thigh while stepping heavy over their back and sinking your left heel to their left thigh.
5. Immediately attack if able to. If you are too high up on their back, sink back lower and sit heavy so as not to be rolled over.

Back take from half-guard:

1. With their right leg trapped in your half-guard, swim for a strong left underhook. (If you have bear-trap half-guard, go to next step.  If you have paperclip/knee-shield half guard, release the knee pressure so you can get a deeper underhook).
2. Once you have the underhook established, shuck their arm hard over your head and reach your left arm across to their lat/armpit.
3. Step quickly over their back with your left leg and get your left hook in.  Your right hook is already in from the half-guard.
4. Immediately attack if able to.  If you are too high up on their back, sink back lower and sit heavy so as not to be rolled over.

Back take from Kimura set-up on knees:

• (They are on their left side and you are behind them on your knees with their right arm in a kimura grip; they have defended it by grabbing their belt or collar).

1. Not letting go of the kimura grip whatsoever, drive your left elbow into their jaw to create a response; as they push back, slip your left arm over their head to have their head trapped inside the kimura setup.
2. Move from your knees to a tight butterfly-guard position against their back as you lift them by their head & arm into your lap, keeping the kimura set-up tight.
3. Once they are upright, swing your legs around and over and sink hooks in.
4. Attack. You already have an arm around their head and are primed for a gi choke or RNC, and they only have one hand available to defend it.