Class notes 9/3/15 leg submission focus

Wall wrestling into takedowns:
Person with back against the wall defends, attacker attempts to get the takedown. Head pressure is key as is a positive spine. If he drops his head, don't match it; either get on top of his shoulders and neck or change levels and drop to attack his knees and hips whilst maintaining correct posture and structure.

Ankle extension against sitting back control:
Sitting on the floor, partner takes your back and wraps his legs around your body, feet resting at groin crease. He makes the error of crossing his legs at the ankles. Pull his feet away but keep them crossed and over hook your same side leg as the leg he has on top. Lever your knee to the floor as you raise your hips fro the finish.

Ankle rotation from side control into 3 variants:
Basic:
Side control - he defends the pass by crossing his legs - reach with the head side arm for the outside edge of his foot the is crossed on the knee. Insert your other hand as if to DWL the ankle - turn his ankle towards his chest for the rotation finish.

Square to him:
As above but move so that you're facing him with his shin across your belly, finish by turning that little toe towards his chest.

Sitting on his leg:
As above bit sit on the leg that is not being controlled. This will greatly limit his ability to move or escape.

Fake the ankle rotation to set up for full mount:
Lee said this was something Rickson used to do attack the foot in side control, as if going for the submission, his opponent would feel this and pull the leg away thus setting themselves up to be easily passed from side control into centre control (mount)

Knee extension from side control:
Person on their back recovers for a full leg trap (half guard) - press down on the face to stop the body turning - step over and sit on his torso - underhook his knee and hug it to your chest - keeping it tight lean back and lie next to him (bring the leg with you) - squeeze your knee together - head next to his foot - look back over your head as you push your hips for the finish.

Calf compression from side control:
Lee did this to me several weeks ago, it took two weeks for the bruising to go down after the 2 days of swelling on the leg!)
Find yourself in a similar position (sitting on his belly as above) - underhook the leg behind the knee so the hand is just past. You want ultimately to rotate the wrist bones into the top of the calf. Before the rotation you need to trap his leg, fall to your side, figure four your legs then turn the wrist for the finish. This one is tricky for me to articulate, I can visualise it just struggle to put it down into words that make sense.

Free form grappling x3 rounds

Class notes: bicep and shoulder suppressions plus Sakuraba leg attacks

How to find the shoulder and bicep position from side control.

Jumping over to the opposite side. HEAD TO HEAD PRESSURE IS KEY. This stops him trying to get his arm out.

Closing with the suppression by grabbing your opposite bicep. This gives you more depth and tightness on the arm in side.

Closing the suppression with the palm to palm grip. Flatten your hips down and get perpendicular to him. This give more space for his arm that is in but is tighter on the side you are closing with the bicep on the neck.

Shoulder and bicep from side back control.

Shoulder and bicep from sitting back control.

All throughout each submission was the necessity to keep the head pressure.

Here is an example of getting the move from standing, note the relentless head pressure to prevent the arm from escaping.



Sakuraba leg attacks:

Setting up the ankle rotation from open bottom control.

Rolling with the ankle rotation so you end up on your back.

Sitting in reverse mount so that you are straddling one of his legs. Go for the knee bar, he prevents by blocking with his other foot, go for the ankle rotation, he extends so fall back for the knee extension finish.

In this video he does what we we looked at tonight: going for the ankle rotation to knee extension. However, we did not endure a torrent of face punches whilst going for the submission.



Almost catches Royce with a knee extension from the depths of hell



General awesome Sakuraba MMA highlight

Breakdown of Palhares v Fitch WSOF 16

Coming off a pair of quick submission victories over Mike Pierce and Steve Carl, "Toquinho" improved to 2-0 under the WSOF banner with a 90-second kneebar over Fitch. Fitch was able to defend Palhares’ heel hook attempts, but Palhares made a transition to a kneebar and immediately got the tap. Alan Belcher Breaks down Toquinho's technique and explains what Jon Fitch should have done.