Take 'em down

Last night, after a hard ab warm-up, we worked some take downs.

We started with the basic hip toss. This is surprisingly a rather difficult throw, or should I say a hard throw to master. As simple as it seems it's difficult to do it correctly.

The second throw we focused on was a version of a flying arm bar. Sort of minus the flying part, it's probably more aptly named the falling arm bar. Start out gripping the tricep of the arm you want to attack ( we'll assume were going to arm bar their right arm.) Circle to the side of that arm, when you're ready put your opposite leg on their hip ( in this case your right leg) fall to the side of that leg while pulling the arm and pushing with the leg. They should land in a perfect arm bar.

It was difficult with an instructor teaching us so I assume it will be that much harder trying to read it.

We also touched on the fireman carry and the two Daniel Moraes showed us, the single and double.

It was kind of nice though when ever we started to roll with a different partner we started standing. I hope we continue that until the tournament April 25th.