Today's class had me, Jason, John, Tony, Eric (John's co-worker), and Rebecca.
Warm-up consisted of standing grip fighting. I did not transition to foot sweeps or throws.
Today was a revisiting of basics, which has been a theme for a bit. We practiced cross collar chokes from guard and also from the mount. We moved on to the seven basic chokes from the back (three RNC variations and four gi chokes). Lastly, we worked on holding side-control, transitioning from side control to kazure kesa gatame, from kuzure kesa gatame back to side-control, and from side-control to ichiro kesa gatame.
While the positional transitions are "basic," they are not simple. Even with a purple belt, I was able to assist him with new insights to prevent the opponent from getting an elbow in during the transition from kuzure back to side-control. The more we go over it, the more that items stick in the muscle memory of each student.
Due to time constraints, we only rolled for about 20 minutes. I practiced with Jason the entire time and worked on my guard work while attempting a new arm bar set-up.
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