It's a compound.

It's been a while so I apologize however tonight's update is a good one. I'll put the technique in italics so those who aren't interested in the moves can still get a good story. You are welcome.

Monday began the new jiu-jitsu schedule at Gracie Fernandina. Monday (7:00) Tuesday (7:00) Wednesday (6:30) and Thursday (6:30). I'm totally looking forward to a minimum 4 days a week. We still have open mat on Sunday and perhaps I may be able to make it to Jacksonville on Fridays. Still, I'm not going to say I'll do 6 days a week but I will try.

Last night we reviewed a butterfly pass that a few of us saw on Friday. It starts with the bad guy in butterfly. When he gets his under-hook, for the basic butterfly sweep, you take your hand and grab the pant leg of his opposite leg. Sounds confusing, I know. I'll attempt to dummy it down a bit. Bad guy has under-hook, the arm that he has the under-hook on goes under both legs and grabs his pant leg on the side that doesn't have the under-hook. Anyway, as the bad guy falls to his side to sweep you smash his legs with your hips while pulling on his pant leg. Give it a try, trust me it works.

The other move we learned was sort of the same except you don't wait for the dude to grab under-hooks. From his butterfly guard, you take, in this case, your left hand go under his legs and grab his left pant leg. Same set-up. Put your head in his chest your free arm grips his back. Here's where it can get tricky so read closely. You post up on the leg on the same side of the arm that is gripping the pant leg (in our case here it's your left leg). All you do from here is pull your arms straight with a bit of a rotating motion and your opponent should spin to a side control position, proceed with elbows to the face.

Tonight we didn't really learn anything new. Mainly it was review of the exact sweep mentioned above except now you're the bad guy trying to sweep. I'm not going to explain that here because you can go to youtube, search butterfly sweep, and be up to you earlobes in content. No, tonight was about injuries. We started off all stretching when Donny comes behind me and puts on a good collar choke. I, like a complete moron, attempt to flip him over my head. Consequently he lands on my head still with the collar choke. He says something along the lines of "Is it tight yet?" I responded with some smart ass comment. There's a pretty good reason I can't tell you what that comment is. Was it bad words? No. Was is politically incorrect? Don't be retarded. It was because I cant remember. The next thing I know, I'm sitting up asking everyone if I passed out. No one seemed to be able to give me a straight answer however due to my lack of memory I think it's a safe bet I took a nap.

So things are going good after individual warm-ups we trained technique and started to roll after that. I got Mark. One of the newer guys. He's big but not generally a huge problem for me right now. Once he gets some technique under his belt he'll be a bigger threat. Anyway, I digress. Mark and I are rolling and out of nowhere I hear...(kids earmuffs!) "SHIT!" followed by a series of Oh my god's and...I CAN SEE THE BONE! Let that sink in, he could freaking see the bone. No, worse is WE could see the bone. Poor Jimmy attempting a pass on Peter "Bone Crusher" Dikun landed on the most perfect one-in-a-million spot to completely pop his BONE OUT OF HIS SKIN. Steve ran to look at it and probably still in amazement of how freakish the whole thing was said, "Yeah, it's a compound alright. Bone's poking out." We wrapped his foot up, debated over to call an ambulance, which would cost him more but save him having to fill out paperwork, or driving him ourselves, which would save him the cost of the ambulance ride but will invariably result in him having to fill out a mountain of paperwork. Jimmy told us to drive him so we helped him to the car and Mark drove him to the hospital.

Luckily we got word after about an hour that the bone was not broken but was dislocated and it was his knuckle that had ripped through the skin. This is good news since all the doctors had to do was pop it back into place (presumably with enough painkillers to choke an elephant) and sew him up. I'm so glad he doesn't have to have surgery and months of rehab. Good luck Jimmy.

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