Tuesday 28 October 2014

Class notes November 2011: centre back control

1: From side back control look to get to centre back control. Put the near side leg in first and keep underhooks at the arm pit. When moved in to centre back control keep the toes pointing straight to avoid crushing when flattening him out. Keep the weight of your chest between his shoulder blades as opposed to the base of the back. Take the leg out back to the starting position, do a chest spin to the other side of his body and repeat.

2: Flattening out. Drive the hips towards his head and keep hands of the matt to give more pressure through his back. If he tucks the arms under to defend, take wrist control and pull towards his hip and flatten his shoulder to the matt.

3: Bicep and forearm suppression from inverted centre back control. formerly known in my mind as the rear naked choke. Key learning points – you can’t get the bicep enough across his throat. Close by putting hand as close to own shoulder as possible. Insert other hand behind his neck to tighten, suppressing arm still relaxed. Get your head into his to stop the neck hand being stripped. Put the non suppressing elbow behind his should. Even now it will be very tight and close to finishing him before tensing. Now tense the suppressing bicep to close the submission. Swiftly.

4: Inner forearm choke from inverted centre back control(x2). As he defends by turning the face away from the bicep he is now setting himself up and thus asking politely to be choked. Pull the suppressing arm out a touch to get the forearm on his throat. Close for a quick and friggin horrid choke. The variation on this was taking the palm to palm, pressure driving with own head towards his and use more strength to pull the forearm across the old windpipe. Hopefully he will be coughing quickly.

5: Arm bar from inverted centre back control. Get the head away from his by pushing away on his head to get the legs over his chest. Now sit up to ensure your hips are tight to his shoulder joint. Cross the ankles, keep the knees squeezing together and wrap the arm. As you lie back keep the ram close to your chest. When the arm is extended push your heels and knees down. This will be very hard as each of those actions will counter the other. This move actually does require an awful lot of presence of mind in all these areas of your body. Now raise the hips to finish. Doing these things with the legs means that the arm is being extended and stretched in the forearm, horribly before the elbow breaks. This detail in the arm will have more success as it is up to me to go through the checklist of points. It reminded me of when Dan Hardy was in this position against GSP who did not finish him from this position. I need to go back to study the clip to see if GSP is doing these details in his arm bar. I know this sounds supercilious and what could I tell GSP anything about MMA but the point is about analysis of technique in the chaos of combat. This was the worst feeling armbar I have ever experienced

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