WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016

In training for me as well, we drilled four half-guard attacks/passes. One technique was simply recognizing the knee bar. The second was a pass. The third was fancy since it was a rolling back take. The fourth was moving into knee slide from half guard. I got in good roll time today, too.

SATURDAY, 14 MAY 2016

Nick, Jason, John, Ryan, and I made up today's class. One blue belt is MIA, and one white belt is injured. We covered a series of lasso-guard escapes, reworked the isolation of arm/back take from guard, and worked simple wrestling take downs.

TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016 JUDO

I trained judo tonight with my instructor, Greg Difranza. Though there were "only" six of us, it was a good time. We had lots of kumi-kata, and we used the crash pad quite a bit. In addition, the situational training drill Greg introduced is something I will be adding.

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HAMILTON, AL SEMINAR: SATURDAY, 7 MAY 2016

Jeremy Booth had me up to teach a seminar for his crew in Hamilton at Ideal Fitness, though several people from Cobra BJJ Tuscaloosa I had not met made the drive to attend the seminar. I must admit that it makes me feel great to know that those folks would base their training time and spend their money to drive that far on a Saturday morning for a 9 a.m. start time when they had never practiced with me before. It must mean that Cole D. and Meghan S. talked me up well (THANKS!).

The first hour consisted of several ways of doing the Americana and a couple of wrist locks. I then had everyone roll for 5 minutes.

The second hour was how to break the grips of opponents when you are threatening the arm bar and they have their hands clasped in a Gable grip. Again, I had everyone grapple for 5 minutes (Jeremy was my rolling buddy this time).

The third hour was takedowns. I taught the Russian series to double and single leg and showed Cole a rolling takedown from the Russian to arm lace.

In question-and-answer time, I showed Jeremy how to do a triangle choke (short legs are not an excuse anymore) and gave Meghan S. a new option when it comes to holding back control on someone. Roll time at the end was easily 30 minutes.

SATURDAY, 30 APRIL 2016

Today's class was just me, Nick, John, and Rebecca.

We did a DLR sweep, a triangle choke from that DLR sweep when the opponent posts, the "Superman" guard opening, and two butterfly passes.

SATURDAY, 23 APRIL 2016

Today's class consisted of me, Nick, Jason, John, Ryan G., Rebecca, and Ryan L. (purple belt). You can check on here, but Ryan L. has trained with us on two previous occasions.

We reviewed three spider guard passes since there were four people who had not gone over the series as presented on Wednesday. We also covered the X-pass and basic knee slide pass.

As always, there was ample roll time. I practiced with both Ryans for a total of about 45 minutes.