SATURDAY, 20 APRIL 2019

Today's class consisted of me, Jason, John, and Steve.

I covered four half-guard sweeps and worked a few ideas for situations when the opponent attempts to crush from the top of half-guard.

I was able to roll with each student for seven minute rounds (two with Jason).

SATURDAY, 13 APRIL 2019

Today was for advanced ranks, with only purple, brown, and black belts in attendance.

We drilled several basic items: arm bar from guard; scissor sweep; cross-collar choke from guard; Americana finishes; kimura finishes; reverse arm bars.

We then shared items that we have been working on individually in order to seek feedback. I personally learned how to do the baseball bat choke from back control and then modified that to catch someone with it from side-control.

I rolled with Jason (twice), John, and Ryan in seven-minute rounds.

SATURDAY, 09 MARCH 2019

Basics, basics, basics. Jason, John, Ryan, and Tony attended. Today we worked on two innovative side control escapes, two basic arm bars from guard, and o-soto-gari for me & John (not sure what Jason & Tony worked on from standing). I rolled with everyone (6 minute rounds) and had a good session.

SATURDAY, 09 FEBRUARY 2019

Today's class consisted of me, Jason, Ryan, and Steve.

After a flow roll to warm up, we covered the intricacies of the reverse arm bar from knee-on-belly and took those same principles and applied them to the same technique from guard.

With Jason's help from an earlier session, l discovered another way of setting the bread cutter choke that eliminates an effective defense.

SATURDAY, 02 FEBRUARY 2019

Jason, John, Steve, and I worked on guard passes and elbow drags. Various types of elbow drags, both standing and on the ground, were covered.

FRIDAY, 01 FEBRUARY 2019

Jason, Tony, and I drilled a series of guard passes. We started from standing with the X-pass and leg drag and moved to my smash pass series.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

On New Year's Day, we had a small open mat with only three attendees (me, Jason, and Jack). We had five minute round-robins where one person was in for two rounds and rested one round. We got in a two hour workout and started the year off right.