Tuesday, November 18, 2008

yesterday in Jiu Jitsu when nobody showed up

hardly anybody showed up for yesterdays class.Maybe it was because it was a whole bunch of people went to the tournament on saturday and got really beat up.
John G taught class yesterday and taught us how to do some gooooard named after some dude. I don't know the name of the goooard but it is supposed to be pretty effective and it was. I just cant remember the name to look it up again.
basically this was the Gooard
1- its from your back
2- intertwine your leg into the STANDING opponents leg
3- Grab the same side hand of the opponent

There was a sweep as well.
1- invert the leg positions, so the leg which is intertwined becomes untwined
2- the other leg is placed below the opponents knee
3- kick and pull -simple sweep

the wise Solomon reminded me that the helicopter sweep was also possible from this Goooard.

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

its been forever since I posted but Pedro was here

Its been forever since I posted anything. Pedro was here for a month and really drove our asses into the ground. I lost almost 7 pounds by the end of the month, and was training almost 7 days a week. It got kind of jaded though. I wasn't doing that great in the rolls, getting my ass kicked most of the time . Got yelled at a lot as well. I was on the verge of quitting (sounds kind of stupid now) but motivated myself to get back in the game. I also spoke to LAK, being the sports champ that she is, who gave me some pretty good advice " let the Jiu jitsu flow, because you have been doing this for a while now, stop thinking, just do it" (later she said, it didn't work for her in her second rivalry game!but what the hell, I didn't know the strategy could fail back then!!)So I went back into the class and kicked some major ass- reverse flying armbar and then flying armbar, I didnt even know I could do those! Well thats that, today will be the true test, my grandmother is critical in the hospital, I can never talk to her again and will probably never see her again, she lives in a different country. I will have to switch off in Jiu Jitsu. That said,not to get too sentimental. Anyway here is the summary of the private classes I had with Pedro
1. In and out guard pass- three methods while standing
-Isolate the one leg by dropping on it
- swing arms around the other leg and place over shoulder, it is very imp to keep the other leg isolated to prevent triangles
-Do the scorpion pass

2. Triple choke- this is not that easy to effect but pretty simple technique
-perform a whizzer
-grab behind the collar
-do choke
place leg over the other guys arm to lock it out
place other leg over back to prevent posture up
Same choke can also be performed without the whizzer- choke 2 pull down and to the ground with lapel

- I can't remember the third choke, I will ask clayton today

3. The spider guard pass and the double leg pass

step over to the side
grab own gi
grab leg and drop

with the double leg in the arms
-walk into the guy
-keep hips low and drop
- push legs to one side
with both these techniques it is important to isolate the legs and put weight on it, otherwise the opponent will reguard.

denise richards is hot.
I am watching starship troopers and I just saw her as the Bond girl on some Bond movie.



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