Class notes; 23/2/15 pushing beyond your limits

Milzy took the class tonight.

Warm up was push ups, sit ups, squats and sprawls.

Knee tap sparring, sprawl when the back of your knee is tapped.

Elbow extension drilling from centre control (mount).

Elbow extension drilling from bottom control (guard).

Escaping the bottom control drilling.

Fighting with gloves on to escape bottom control, bottom control can submit x2 rounds.

Greco takedowns - hips and above.

Freestyle wrestling takedowns then pin for 3 seconds

Takedown from the knees to shoulder pinning.

Free form grappling x3 rounds.

I called this pushing beyond your limits as this was the most exhausting session I have had in many years. As I type my forearms feel like jelly, my head feels like it is till stuck in a vice and sunburned at the same time. But without hardship, challenge and struggle there will be no progress.

In the words of the great Sam Elliot, playing Wade Garrett in Roadhouse (possibly one of the finest 80's mullet-laden movies) "I'll rest when I'm dead", well I am at least half way there and have no plans to rest yet!

class notes: submissions from centre control

Free form warm up

Side control escapes drilling x 4 individual and then chaining them in sets of 3
1: knee escape
2: hip up and roll
3: swim under the lat and swim out
4: inverted under the belly spin and escape

Submissions from centre control (mount)

Leg suppression (triangle)

Not quite the way Lee showed but the final finish is the same





With fist suppression (pulse side of the neck) from triangle

Fist choke (fist to centre of throat) from triangle

Here is a video of Lee finishing from his back but a main theme from tonight was translation of mount attacks to bottom control position



Shin choke (gogoplata)

Elbow extension (arm bar)

Here is video Lee created showing the shin choke to elbow extension



Submission from side control: downward shoulder rotation with leg trap on the head

Attacks from centre control (mount) translate to bottom control (guard)

Free form grappling

Eyes closed grappling for position and submission