Been So Long

It's been a really long time since I've posted. I've been rolling however I've been really apathetic about the blog. Last Monday, or Wednesday, I cant remember either way last week we had Daniel and his brother Diego and Rhelan Gracie (Relson's Son) come in to teach. That was a freaking awesome class. These guys are the best in the world and are really cool. There's no ego, they know they're good and they dont have to take it out on a whitebelt. I learned the Relson Gracie side mount and it is as follows:

Your hand near his head goes as if your elbow is touching his far ear. Go under his arm all the way to his belt. Your other hand grips his closest knee. I really like this because it's easy to obtain, because people dont expect it, and it's easy to keep. There was a sweet armbar off of it that goes a little something like this;

If their arm goes up to your head your take your hand that is gripping the knee and trap their hand by grabbing your collar. Simple. You then take your free hand put it on their head Swing your foot over their head and walk your foot towards their back. At this point you will probably be rotating your hips around their arm. Grab their knee with your free hand and fall back for the armbar. Awesome. Thanks Rhalen.



Tonight we went over a few chokes from guard. There was one cool one if the other guy is turtling up. So lets pretend the bad guy is turtling up and you are on his left side. Take your left hand and feed it under his left arm to grab his opposite lapel. This is a tight freaking hold. There's no where good for this guy to go once you have this. Donny showed a clock choke from here but it's super difficult to get your hand in. Corey and I, however, discovered that by taking your free hand, in this case your right, and grabbing their hand nearest to your body and clamping down you have a quick and tight choke.

Well that's it for the blog tonight. Stay tuned for more updates.

Sitting out.

Since the tournament my arm has been bothering me. I can't sleep well because I keep waking up from the pain. The weird thing is that it doesn't really hurt throughout the day. it only hurts at night and when I roll. With this is mind I decided to sit out of class on monday.

Well to start off, it really sucked sitting out. Not because everyone made fun of me but because I really wanted to roll. Donny taught two armbars.

The first one was a cross collar choke to an armbar. Basically it went like this, while going for the cross collar choke from guard as your opponent pushes away you armbar. Pretty simple.

The second was from a failed siscor sweep. If you attempt to sweep and the person defends by shifting their weight you can use their momentum to swing an armbar. Since I wasn't actually doing it it's hard to explain.

There was a new guy in class today. This guy went 200 MPH. Typical of someone new to jiu-jitsu, trying to prove something. He seemed a little fast for my liking but I'm really looking forward to "Helping" him slow down.