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!
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Monday, 23 February 2015
Monday, 26 January 2015
Class notes: Daniel Cormier wrestling notes
DC's takedowns
Changing the levels by taking him one way to get a reaction to make him more vulnerable.
Clinch - snap the head down to inner forearm choke - you want him to escape so stand up into it - he tries to pop the head out - instantly change levels by going for the double leg
Clinch - over/underhook - pull his high arm into you - he will want to escape by standing and pulling away - drop down for the inner leg trip and should drive.
Inner leg trip, your closest leg steps in between his and behind his front front. Your knee is next to the foot, your lower leg is behind his foot. It is the proposal position except you are perpendicular and not facing them. Drop the hands to the hamstrings and drive him over.
Jeff Glover hanging triangle (leg suppression) set up and submission:
Passing the open guard with his feet at your hips:
Head to the mat and go under one knee. With the other hand control his foot. Roll sideways over the controlled foot into invert side control
Freeform under 85kg group.
Tangled with Ptas for the first time in a couple of years, it was tight and close as always. Then rolled with 2 new young lads George and James. Gave me a chance to talk them through movement on the floor, practise elevator sweeps which is something I am trying to be more proactive about - getting from my back to side or top half guard.
Here is a quick video of the elevator sweep
Changing the levels by taking him one way to get a reaction to make him more vulnerable.
Clinch - snap the head down to inner forearm choke - you want him to escape so stand up into it - he tries to pop the head out - instantly change levels by going for the double leg
Clinch - over/underhook - pull his high arm into you - he will want to escape by standing and pulling away - drop down for the inner leg trip and should drive.
Inner leg trip, your closest leg steps in between his and behind his front front. Your knee is next to the foot, your lower leg is behind his foot. It is the proposal position except you are perpendicular and not facing them. Drop the hands to the hamstrings and drive him over.
Jeff Glover hanging triangle (leg suppression) set up and submission:
Passing the open guard with his feet at your hips:
Head to the mat and go under one knee. With the other hand control his foot. Roll sideways over the controlled foot into invert side control
Freeform under 85kg group.
Tangled with Ptas for the first time in a couple of years, it was tight and close as always. Then rolled with 2 new young lads George and James. Gave me a chance to talk them through movement on the floor, practise elevator sweeps which is something I am trying to be more proactive about - getting from my back to side or top half guard.
Here is a quick video of the elevator sweep
Thursday, 8 January 2015
class notes: bottom control (guard) masterclass
Takedown drill warm up: double leg to side bag clinch to single leg.
Key learning points are the hips; keep them pinned to him if you want the takedown, keep them away if you don't want it and want to avoid him getting it. Throughout each phase of movement in this drill they should feel head pressure.
On the outside of the ribs on the double leg.
On their shoulder blades on the side back clinch.
On their front ribs on the single leg.
This image below illustrates the depth and commitment of the double leg.
In essence you are moving around him whilst in contact. For example, shoot in on the right leg, move around his back and capture the leg leg for the single.
Bottom control 1:
Submit or pass. Person on their back has to look for creative and a variety of submissions or submission attempts. Top person has to avoid the submission and pass the legs to side control. When passed, start again. The one thing I noticed was when going for the shoulder rotation (omoplata) they might defend by sitting up and pulling away. From here you can slide the near side leg under his chin to set up the shin choke (gogplata). The angle is far from perfect so you need grap your foot by reaching around his head. You might not even get the finish but having the shin across their neck will generate movement from them so you can explore other positions.
My partner got some nice elbow extension on me. The type when the pressure is applied to the tricep and my hand is on his shoulder.
Submit or reverse: Similar to above except the person on top is not trying to pass. They are preventing the submission and keeping their base to avoid being swept.
Inversion from open spider guard
inversion dexterity from the bottom: side control to north south - 'roll' out
These are complicated motions to describe in words, hopefully these images will give some clearer ideas of what we were doing.
dexterity against the wall
This is an example of the dexterity drill we dill.
This video, start at 1.48 gives an idea of the motion. We were not using the inversion as an entry but from contact range already.
Again, this video is not what we were doing but is a creative way to get the triangle from an inverted position.
This video looks very similar in terms of movement that we were looking at. Start it at 2.22
Key learning points are the hips; keep them pinned to him if you want the takedown, keep them away if you don't want it and want to avoid him getting it. Throughout each phase of movement in this drill they should feel head pressure.
On the outside of the ribs on the double leg.
On their shoulder blades on the side back clinch.
On their front ribs on the single leg.
This image below illustrates the depth and commitment of the double leg.
In essence you are moving around him whilst in contact. For example, shoot in on the right leg, move around his back and capture the leg leg for the single.
Bottom control 1:
Submit or pass. Person on their back has to look for creative and a variety of submissions or submission attempts. Top person has to avoid the submission and pass the legs to side control. When passed, start again. The one thing I noticed was when going for the shoulder rotation (omoplata) they might defend by sitting up and pulling away. From here you can slide the near side leg under his chin to set up the shin choke (gogplata). The angle is far from perfect so you need grap your foot by reaching around his head. You might not even get the finish but having the shin across their neck will generate movement from them so you can explore other positions.
My partner got some nice elbow extension on me. The type when the pressure is applied to the tricep and my hand is on his shoulder.
Submit or reverse: Similar to above except the person on top is not trying to pass. They are preventing the submission and keeping their base to avoid being swept.
Inversion from open spider guard
inversion dexterity from the bottom: side control to north south - 'roll' out
These are complicated motions to describe in words, hopefully these images will give some clearer ideas of what we were doing.
dexterity against the wall
This is an example of the dexterity drill we dill.
This video, start at 1.48 gives an idea of the motion. We were not using the inversion as an entry but from contact range already.
Again, this video is not what we were doing but is a creative way to get the triangle from an inverted position.
This video looks very similar in terms of movement that we were looking at. Start it at 2.22
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
Ronda Rousey's arm bar set up
http://www.mma121.com | In this video you will learn how to do one of the Elbow Extension (Arm Bar) set ups that Ronda Rousey used on Miesha Tate in their bantam weight title battle at Strikeforce. This was the first of two arm bars that Ronda Rousey went for in the fight, she almost won it with this one but Miesha Tate managed to escape despite her arm being badly hyper extended. This Arm Bar set up started when Miesha Tate was doing up kicks towards Ronda Rousey before Ronda span past the legs and took a knee on belly position and cleverly held on to the leg while going for the submission. It's a great set up that can be used in MMA or BJJ but it does leave some defensive opportunities because of the knee on stomach start position.
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www.promai.com/mma
Akiyama's trip throws
http://www.mma121.com | Learn how to do Yoshihiro Akiyama's amazing trip takedowns that he used on Jake Shields at UFC 144. Akyama may have lost to Jake shields at UFC 144 but he still managed some impressive looking dynamic Judo style takedowns on the way. The technique looks incredibly fast when you watch it in real time but the real key is in the preparation. In order to perform an outside trip on the front leg at such a pace Akiyama prepares himself while Shields is closing the distance instead of waiting for the clinch to be solidified before starting the takedown. Akiyama does this by recognising the times when Shields is closing for a clinch and before Shields has the clinch formed he starts to turn sideways and looks for the underhook on Shileds rear arm. Because of this preparation when shields moves in Akiyama is already half way through the technique, he's stepped most of the way across the front leg and his lead hand is waiting to pummel under. If he gets that position it's a very tough takedown to stop but if it goes wrong Akiyama can end up with his back to his opponent like he did with Jakes Shields in Round 3 of their fight. A great example of Judo in MMA
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www.promai.com/mma
Ground control practise on a basketball
http://www.mma121.com | In this video PRO MAI MMA Chief Instructor Lee Aylett demonstrates an unusual drill that's designed to improve your ground / grappling control where you try and remain balanced on a basketball. Control when you're in top positions like centre control (mount), side control or invert side control (scarf hold) on the ground in both MMA and BJJ depends largely on your ability to keep pressure on your opponent. In turn this means that you have to be continuously aware of your centre of gravity and adjust it as necessary.
In this drill you balance your upper body on a basketball and nothing other than your feet are allowed to be in contact with the ground. You then have to transition into different positions and strike while retaining your balance and position on the ball. In order to avoid slipping off the basketball you have to continually adjust your centre of gravity just as you would in a real grappling exchange.
This MMA training drill is fantastic for improving the responsiveness of your movement and control and it can be done on your own when you don't have a training partner around.
www.promai.com/mma
In this drill you balance your upper body on a basketball and nothing other than your feet are allowed to be in contact with the ground. You then have to transition into different positions and strike while retaining your balance and position on the ball. In order to avoid slipping off the basketball you have to continually adjust your centre of gravity just as you would in a real grappling exchange.
This MMA training drill is fantastic for improving the responsiveness of your movement and control and it can be done on your own when you don't have a training partner around.
www.promai.com/mma
Arm bar with your legs
http://www.mma121.com | In this video you will learn how to apply an Elbow Extension (Arm Bar) From Invert Side Control (Scarf Hold). This is an advanced submission attack that also gives you great opportunities to strike once the leg trap is achieved. The finish is quite difficult because it requires an acute understanding of the angles needed to finish the arm bar submission and you need to feel these angles through your legs. But it's a low risk attack that can be incredibly effective if you get it right.
An advanced submission that's great for MMA competition and BJJ matches.
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An advanced submission that's great for MMA competition and BJJ matches.
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Kimura strength training
http://www.mma121.com | In this video PRO MAI MMA Chief Instructor Lee Aylett demonstrates a core strength training exercise for the shoulders that's great for MMA. By using a partner for your MMA strength work you can achieve intelligent resistance and this enables you to work at 100% maximum resistance all the way through a muscles range of motion. In this exercise we are simulating a Downward Shoulder Rotation (Kimura) - not only is this a fantastic workout on the shoulders but it also heps to strengthen your resistance to the submission itself both mentally and physically so it's particularly relevant if you participate in MMA, BJJ or any other combat sport that allows submissions
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www.promai.com/mma
Speed wrestling and clinching drill
http://www.mma121.com | Here's a great MMA training drill where you have to speed wrestle your partner as you are forced to constantly change position every couple of seconds. In this drill you start in a clinch and drill any clinch positions in a free form manner including striking if you wish but throughout the drill you are not allowed to hold any clinch position for more than 2 seconds. This means that you are forced to constantly innovate various transitions between the clinch positions and wrestle at speed.
This drill is designed to improve your MMA clinch / Wrestling technique and quicken your thinking time and reactions but it's also a great MMA workout in its own right
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This drill is designed to improve your MMA clinch / Wrestling technique and quicken your thinking time and reactions but it's also a great MMA workout in its own right
www.promai.com/mma
Thursday, 11 December 2014
Class notes: elbow and ankle extension, inner forearm and bicep suppression
Elbow extension (arm bar)
Overhook an arm.
Stand on the foot so the foot is under the shoulder and near the head.
Swing other leg over the head.
Sit hips close to his shoulder and pull the arm up.
Keep his elbow tight to your chest.
Squeeze knees together.
Lie back with his arm wrapped, push the knees and heels down.
Now lift the hips.
The following videos just because the quality of her rolling and set ups are outstanding.
Inner forearm and bicep suppression - the bulldog and ninja choke
More details to follow. Lee made a video going through thme.
Ankle extension (straight ankle lock)
Lee talked about several steps of the ladder to get a secure ankle extension:
Wrap the lower leg so the top of the foot is against your lat.
No gaps between you and his foot and the wrapping of the foot.
Place the wrapping hand high on your chest to close the gaps.
Use the bones of the forearm on the Achilles area.
Squeeze the knees together.
Fall to either side.
look 'up'/away by arching.
Common errors are when people lie straight back - this leads to a much greater percentage that the submission will fail.
Dean Lister's approach:
Lister talks about tightness.
Stephan Kesting's 3 common errors:
The fist 2 applied to our learning: no gaps and squeeze the knees together.
How to...
Key tips from this clip are the tightness and going to your side.
Post class I was talking to Lee. One of the tips was about open legs. In UFC 1 Ken Shamrock beat Pat Smith with an ankle submission.
As you can see his knees are miles apart. I do remember him having to adjust to a modification as it never worked first time, probably as Lee said, the knees weren't tight. He then appears to turn it into some type of ankle rotation.
The fight begins at 33.07. Decide for yourself and see how far the technical quality of the sport has evolved over the 20+ years.
http://vimeo.com/45287348
The whole main card is on this video
Overhook an arm.
Stand on the foot so the foot is under the shoulder and near the head.
Swing other leg over the head.
Sit hips close to his shoulder and pull the arm up.
Keep his elbow tight to your chest.
Squeeze knees together.
Lie back with his arm wrapped, push the knees and heels down.
Now lift the hips.
The following videos just because the quality of her rolling and set ups are outstanding.
Inner forearm and bicep suppression - the bulldog and ninja choke
More details to follow. Lee made a video going through thme.
Ankle extension (straight ankle lock)
Lee talked about several steps of the ladder to get a secure ankle extension:
Wrap the lower leg so the top of the foot is against your lat.
No gaps between you and his foot and the wrapping of the foot.
Place the wrapping hand high on your chest to close the gaps.
Use the bones of the forearm on the Achilles area.
Squeeze the knees together.
Fall to either side.
look 'up'/away by arching.
Common errors are when people lie straight back - this leads to a much greater percentage that the submission will fail.
Dean Lister's approach:
Lister talks about tightness.
Stephan Kesting's 3 common errors:
The fist 2 applied to our learning: no gaps and squeeze the knees together.
How to...
Key tips from this clip are the tightness and going to your side.
Post class I was talking to Lee. One of the tips was about open legs. In UFC 1 Ken Shamrock beat Pat Smith with an ankle submission.
As you can see his knees are miles apart. I do remember him having to adjust to a modification as it never worked first time, probably as Lee said, the knees weren't tight. He then appears to turn it into some type of ankle rotation.
The fight begins at 33.07. Decide for yourself and see how far the technical quality of the sport has evolved over the 20+ years.
http://vimeo.com/45287348
The whole main card is on this video
Monday, 3 November 2014
Class notes November 2014: escapes and reversals from your back
Solo drill escape warm up: these are some of the motions used in the partner work.
Shrimp: lie on back, feet under hips, hips away and pike position to touch toes as lying on your side.
Bridge: lie on back, feet under hips, lift hips and move to crown of the head, arms overhead so back of hands touch the floor and back again.
Hip up roll: lie on back, feet under hips, lift hips and turn onto the outside of a shoulder, same side face on the mat, reach opposite arm and leg over and end up perpendicular to your original position with knees tucked in. This image illustrates in part the concept of the motion.
4 escapes from centre control (mount:
Drilling the 4 escapes with our partner then chaining them in sets of 3. The first 2 fail and the third one works. This was about constant movement and manipulation of him, not allowing him to settle and thinking of a series of moves not balls out for one. We could do the 3 in any order eg, 1, 2, 3 or 1, 1, 1 and so on.
1: hip escape to leg trap in half guard.
2: hip escape for complete escape.
3: trap and wrap an arm and same side ankle, bridge and roll.
4: hip up and shooting out from underneath under his hips.
Escape / reversal from bottom control (guard:
Wrapping the arms with underhooks, getting to a side and coming under an arm and grabbing the far side lat. Pull hard o the lat to see what pressure he gives.
To reverse and roll him you need to do three things. Keep the leg trap trap, you are essentially humping the outside of his leg, reach through his legs and under his knee and capture around on his hip, straighten the legs (keeping the leg trap) and move your hips around his leg so you now appear to be humping the inside of his legs.You need to go back under him to roll him. When doing this at first I struggled as my hips were wrong, the head was not going under and the leg trap went off and on. But after some extra coaching from Lee it started to come along for both me and my partner.
Tag team grappling: As it says!
Free form rounds: Sparring for position and submission.
Heavy vs light: Heavy fighter stays on his back, lighter fighter can go for submissions and positions. I got Seb then Milzy. If this means anything to you, you know the difficulties both these guys present. Python strength and fluidity. Both a nightmare and a pleasure to work with.
Slaughtered by Seb: An extra roll with Seb to practise, practise, and practise some more. Always hard. always lose. always love itna .
Shrimp: lie on back, feet under hips, hips away and pike position to touch toes as lying on your side.
Bridge: lie on back, feet under hips, lift hips and move to crown of the head, arms overhead so back of hands touch the floor and back again.
Hip up roll: lie on back, feet under hips, lift hips and turn onto the outside of a shoulder, same side face on the mat, reach opposite arm and leg over and end up perpendicular to your original position with knees tucked in. This image illustrates in part the concept of the motion.
4 escapes from centre control (mount:
Drilling the 4 escapes with our partner then chaining them in sets of 3. The first 2 fail and the third one works. This was about constant movement and manipulation of him, not allowing him to settle and thinking of a series of moves not balls out for one. We could do the 3 in any order eg, 1, 2, 3 or 1, 1, 1 and so on.
1: hip escape to leg trap in half guard.
2: hip escape for complete escape.
3: trap and wrap an arm and same side ankle, bridge and roll.
4: hip up and shooting out from underneath under his hips.
Escape / reversal from bottom control (guard:
Wrapping the arms with underhooks, getting to a side and coming under an arm and grabbing the far side lat. Pull hard o the lat to see what pressure he gives.
To reverse and roll him you need to do three things. Keep the leg trap trap, you are essentially humping the outside of his leg, reach through his legs and under his knee and capture around on his hip, straighten the legs (keeping the leg trap) and move your hips around his leg so you now appear to be humping the inside of his legs.You need to go back under him to roll him. When doing this at first I struggled as my hips were wrong, the head was not going under and the leg trap went off and on. But after some extra coaching from Lee it started to come along for both me and my partner.
Tag team grappling: As it says!
Free form rounds: Sparring for position and submission.
Heavy vs light: Heavy fighter stays on his back, lighter fighter can go for submissions and positions. I got Seb then Milzy. If this means anything to you, you know the difficulties both these guys present. Python strength and fluidity. Both a nightmare and a pleasure to work with.
Slaughtered by Seb: An extra roll with Seb to practise, practise, and practise some more. Always hard. always lose. always love itna .
Wednesday, 29 October 2014
Catch wrestling notes from Trist
Trist has been doing some extra research and here are his tremendous insights as of late:
This whole video is really interesting to watch although a lot of its not relevant to what we are training. At 7.00mins in Billy starts talking about arm positioning for double wrist locks and arm bars, this then progresses to a few face crank positions, a standing double wrist lock takedown (bring on the mats!) and then at 8:30 he demonstrates the elbow/lever position (this is what I was focusing on transitioning to after establishing the lock and seem to work really well with both Ron and yourself)
Strangely the early part of this vid shows something not a million miles from what Ayyaz was talking about last night but Billy is immediately establishing his own wrist control, also an interesting break from two hands on one arm. The arm drag variations are around 2:00mins, the first is the variation we train and the other two seem more wrestling specific but still interesting from a grappling standpoint.
1:05mins in Billy shows an interesting idea for grapple sparring as a nice way to go for double wrist lock
This is on the ground but check out Billy at 2:05 onwards reminds me of Martin demonstrating good position.
Trist, thanks for all your insights, these videos are fantastic and help to keep us all learning
This whole video is really interesting to watch although a lot of its not relevant to what we are training. At 7.00mins in Billy starts talking about arm positioning for double wrist locks and arm bars, this then progresses to a few face crank positions, a standing double wrist lock takedown (bring on the mats!) and then at 8:30 he demonstrates the elbow/lever position (this is what I was focusing on transitioning to after establishing the lock and seem to work really well with both Ron and yourself)
Strangely the early part of this vid shows something not a million miles from what Ayyaz was talking about last night but Billy is immediately establishing his own wrist control, also an interesting break from two hands on one arm. The arm drag variations are around 2:00mins, the first is the variation we train and the other two seem more wrestling specific but still interesting from a grappling standpoint.
1:05mins in Billy shows an interesting idea for grapple sparring as a nice way to go for double wrist lock
This is on the ground but check out Billy at 2:05 onwards reminds me of Martin demonstrating good position.
Trist, thanks for all your insights, these videos are fantastic and help to keep us all learning
Class notes August 2014: pummel masterclass
Fighting out of the pummel: this was the focus from which all of our learning came out of tonight using our 5 primary grappling based attacks
1: arm drag
2: double lap
3: DWL
4: head and arm choke
5: long arm head control
DWL: details: get his hand away from you and him, whilst being in control, to stop the hand clasping. Create the space for the arm and then you step in to meet his wrist and not pulling it in to your chest. This will keep his arm away from him.
DWL: details: get his hand away from you and him, whilst being in control, to stop the hand clasping. Create the space for the arm and then you step in to meet his wrist and not pulling it in to your chest. This will keep his arm away from him.
Clasp over the elbow or on the tricep with your armpit not on the forearm. You will not have the leverage if you are too low on his arm.
To do the empty chicken wing shoulder control make sure when you transition from the DWL to the ECWSC that you close the gap between your side and his. I did this with the Saracen leader and he commented on how much more effective it was when this gap was closed.
Head and arm snatch into choke: Martin reminded us of the need to close the gaps and ensure everything was in the right place. Primarily the deltoid need to reach right through and under his jaw line. I was working with the Saracen Leader and several things happened in slow motion. I put the technique on and within half a second I let go. Saracen stumbles, I thought he was taking the piss by doing a comedy stumble. As he stumbled he banged his head then proceeded straight body and hit the back of his head on the floor a few times. He appeared to be fitting. I know you must leave people alone and put them in the recovery position afterwards. Luckily this lasted for a few seconds before he jumped up feeling a little queasy. I felt really bad that this happened but SL was super cool about it all. It also made me realise that if everything is in the correct place that this choke is fast and can put someone to sleep after you have let go.
In real MMA action:
In a grappling match:
Long arm head control. Elbow up and elbow down. Martin spent some time going through this and perhaps I am over thinking it or simply crap at it at the moment. Found it really hard to get on. Along with the double lap more time on this is needed.
And how it should be done properly:
Rotational power, pulling the other hand or leg or waist back to give power to the striking tool.
Head and arm snatch into choke: Martin reminded us of the need to close the gaps and ensure everything was in the right place. Primarily the deltoid need to reach right through and under his jaw line. I was working with the Saracen Leader and several things happened in slow motion. I put the technique on and within half a second I let go. Saracen stumbles, I thought he was taking the piss by doing a comedy stumble. As he stumbled he banged his head then proceeded straight body and hit the back of his head on the floor a few times. He appeared to be fitting. I know you must leave people alone and put them in the recovery position afterwards. Luckily this lasted for a few seconds before he jumped up feeling a little queasy. I felt really bad that this happened but SL was super cool about it all. It also made me realise that if everything is in the correct place that this choke is fast and can put someone to sleep after you have let go.
In real MMA action:
In a grappling match:
Long arm head control. Elbow up and elbow down. Martin spent some time going through this and perhaps I am over thinking it or simply crap at it at the moment. Found it really hard to get on. Along with the double lap more time on this is needed.
And how it should be done properly:
Rotational power, pulling the other hand or leg or waist back to give power to the striking tool.
Class notes July 2014: arm drags
The standing grappling part of the class was a refresher and then some from the learning of last week.
Arm drag from fixed positions:
Right hand on same side shoulder: arm drag
Right hand on opposite side shoulder: head and arm choke
Right hand on same side hip: DWL
Right hand on opposite side hip: Double lap
As well as working the variants with the left arm, mixing it up, incorporating fast twitch speed and reaction. Ensure the motions are tight and small. With speed comes erratic movement patterns so we tried to train to our perfect ideal of tight and small.
4 variants of the arm drag from the inside and outside wrist control (with punch down the centre)
Arm drag to back shoulder and hip control:
When done to you this feels most unpleasant, firstly because you are spinning around with your head below heart height, secondly, they are not applying much force and so are riding your attempts to escape. Below are the 4 variants of the arm drag entry to get to their back and hip.
Arm drag from fixed positions:
Right hand on same side shoulder: arm drag
Right hand on opposite side shoulder: head and arm choke
Right hand on same side hip: DWL
Right hand on opposite side hip: Double lap
As well as working the variants with the left arm, mixing it up, incorporating fast twitch speed and reaction. Ensure the motions are tight and small. With speed comes erratic movement patterns so we tried to train to our perfect ideal of tight and small.
4 variants of the arm drag from the inside and outside wrist control (with punch down the centre)
Arm drag to back shoulder and hip control:
When done to you this feels most unpleasant, firstly because you are spinning around with your head below heart height, secondly, they are not applying much force and so are riding your attempts to escape. Below are the 4 variants of the arm drag entry to get to their back and hip.
Class notes April 2014: standing catch wrestling
DWL defence against a big guy:
It is unlikely that sinking down and doing the palm to palm hip capture will work against Big Ron and others of a similar build we looked at the grip break. When they have the DWL the arm is isolated and disconnected from the body and thus much easier to manipulate. To even this out and take it back you need to integrate the whole body. Clasp the palms and get your hip behind your grip, you will need to step into him to get behind your hands. Now the hand and arms are in a more powerful and structurally string position. You are no longer fighting arm against arm. To break it, punch the hips through and turn. I started to lift but got corrected. Keeping the hands sort of central to you as you punch the hips will make it very hard for him to maintain his dominant position.
Defending the standing head and arm:
Briefly looked at this - fist to neck or speak on the telephone. This will jam your elbow into his neck or shoulder giving you space to breath. A cheeky attack from here is as you turn towards him you can hit your own elbow which will hit him in the head. CI like this as clearly it will not KO him but it will give him something to think about. I have found when your stuff is being messed with it is hard to ignore that, instead most people want to deal with that and then return to a dominant position.
Blossoming flower of oblivion:
This choke can be likened to a very deep bicep guilotene. It might just be the worst cranking choke out there. From the clinch grapple his head goes down and here is the chance for the choke. Punch the arm around the neck deeply. So that you are trying to get the bicep under his chin. We investigated having the forearm across the jaw bone and under the chin, both horrendously effective. For me the absolute key and unashamedly worth repeating is the initial motion to punch the arm around the neck to get deep on him. If I punch my right arm around the neck, my left hand braces against his left shoulder. The very fact that you have gone deep with the choking arm might by itself be enough. There is no space in there for the head so any motion has big effects. To get the right hand on to the left wrist you do not need to crab walk the hand to the wrist. Your right closed fist will blossom open and simply park at the wrist. If he has not tapped yet he soon will. The full completion of the movement is either: get the elbows close as your put all your weight on the back of the neck driving him to the ground to close off on the floor. the second, and more violent option is to suplex him...
Punching entry for head crank:
This is the neck crank Martin showed in the old class many years ago and has stuck with me and one I often think about. To set it up throw a left jab then left hook causing him to cover up, keep your left hand on his cover as you throw the right. Blocking with his left you elbow around his forearm to enter head lock range. If the punching was too complicated a set up, Martin did give us the opportunity to work from wrist control and forearm contact. To get the elbow in range for the headlock, use his forearm as the fulcrum and go around it, it looked like the elbow strike from the powerlines drill a few weeks ago. Arm that is closed to him slides under the chin and the hand goes to the top of his head, rear hand meets at the top of the head with a deep grip. The forearm will be grinding into the temple. To finish the crank lever the hands away and close the elbow together. This will cause the neck and jaw line to move along lines they were not designed to. And if any of the three standing neck crank/chokes we have done (grovit, thumb guillotene, blossoming flower of oblivion) does not work because he stands up out of them then they can stand into the neck crank just outlined.
It is unlikely that sinking down and doing the palm to palm hip capture will work against Big Ron and others of a similar build we looked at the grip break. When they have the DWL the arm is isolated and disconnected from the body and thus much easier to manipulate. To even this out and take it back you need to integrate the whole body. Clasp the palms and get your hip behind your grip, you will need to step into him to get behind your hands. Now the hand and arms are in a more powerful and structurally string position. You are no longer fighting arm against arm. To break it, punch the hips through and turn. I started to lift but got corrected. Keeping the hands sort of central to you as you punch the hips will make it very hard for him to maintain his dominant position.
Defending the standing head and arm:
Briefly looked at this - fist to neck or speak on the telephone. This will jam your elbow into his neck or shoulder giving you space to breath. A cheeky attack from here is as you turn towards him you can hit your own elbow which will hit him in the head. CI like this as clearly it will not KO him but it will give him something to think about. I have found when your stuff is being messed with it is hard to ignore that, instead most people want to deal with that and then return to a dominant position.
Blossoming flower of oblivion:
This choke can be likened to a very deep bicep guilotene. It might just be the worst cranking choke out there. From the clinch grapple his head goes down and here is the chance for the choke. Punch the arm around the neck deeply. So that you are trying to get the bicep under his chin. We investigated having the forearm across the jaw bone and under the chin, both horrendously effective. For me the absolute key and unashamedly worth repeating is the initial motion to punch the arm around the neck to get deep on him. If I punch my right arm around the neck, my left hand braces against his left shoulder. The very fact that you have gone deep with the choking arm might by itself be enough. There is no space in there for the head so any motion has big effects. To get the right hand on to the left wrist you do not need to crab walk the hand to the wrist. Your right closed fist will blossom open and simply park at the wrist. If he has not tapped yet he soon will. The full completion of the movement is either: get the elbows close as your put all your weight on the back of the neck driving him to the ground to close off on the floor. the second, and more violent option is to suplex him...
Punching entry for head crank:
This is the neck crank Martin showed in the old class many years ago and has stuck with me and one I often think about. To set it up throw a left jab then left hook causing him to cover up, keep your left hand on his cover as you throw the right. Blocking with his left you elbow around his forearm to enter head lock range. If the punching was too complicated a set up, Martin did give us the opportunity to work from wrist control and forearm contact. To get the elbow in range for the headlock, use his forearm as the fulcrum and go around it, it looked like the elbow strike from the powerlines drill a few weeks ago. Arm that is closed to him slides under the chin and the hand goes to the top of his head, rear hand meets at the top of the head with a deep grip. The forearm will be grinding into the temple. To finish the crank lever the hands away and close the elbow together. This will cause the neck and jaw line to move along lines they were not designed to. And if any of the three standing neck crank/chokes we have done (grovit, thumb guillotene, blossoming flower of oblivion) does not work because he stands up out of them then they can stand into the neck crank just outlined.
Class notes April 2014: grappling from the pummel
Grappling from the pummel: The techniques we looked at tonight can be labelled loosely for memories sake, and even now only a few hours later I am struggling to remember all the variations. I think this is because it for me was about flow and not individual moments.
The individual positions were from the Thai clinch:
Headlock take down,
Chicken wing,
Standing Kimura,
Bail out and strike,
Two hand to One shoulder control.
There was a few more but 2 things stick in my mind, the corrections for the Thai clinch and the concept of flow. For the Thai clinch we were reminded about weight distribution - have weight in the back leg so the front can start to knee. Heaviness - put your weight through the top of their head, let them carry you. Squeezing forearms - clamp down as being in the Thai clinch is murder. No technique is worth fighting for. Don't stay and fight for a technique or a position, if it is not there or working, go to something else. Be fluid and keep moving but with control. Don't resist the resister. This was something me and Tristan had time to play with. Starting from the half Thai clinch, we would take it in turns to see what we could get, always going back to the Thai clinch if it was there. Being the one being moved around is quite alarming as you have not time to get set, you are always thinking about defending, about moving away from the pressure, the pain or escaping too. What was most refreshing about this part of the class was Martin's honesty. He said that what he was teaching was messy, few people teach messy as people like crisp, neat and tidy. But rarely to thing look neat and tidy in the chaos of combat. Messy in the visual sense not in the practical sense. Here is a video that is a stylised version of what we were doing and i can see many of the positions we trained in this drill.
The final part of the grappling tonight was countering the double wrist lock. Change levels and secure a hip capture palm to palm grip
The individual positions were from the Thai clinch:
Headlock take down,
Chicken wing,
Standing Kimura,
Bail out and strike,
Two hand to One shoulder control.
There was a few more but 2 things stick in my mind, the corrections for the Thai clinch and the concept of flow. For the Thai clinch we were reminded about weight distribution - have weight in the back leg so the front can start to knee. Heaviness - put your weight through the top of their head, let them carry you. Squeezing forearms - clamp down as being in the Thai clinch is murder. No technique is worth fighting for. Don't stay and fight for a technique or a position, if it is not there or working, go to something else. Be fluid and keep moving but with control. Don't resist the resister. This was something me and Tristan had time to play with. Starting from the half Thai clinch, we would take it in turns to see what we could get, always going back to the Thai clinch if it was there. Being the one being moved around is quite alarming as you have not time to get set, you are always thinking about defending, about moving away from the pressure, the pain or escaping too. What was most refreshing about this part of the class was Martin's honesty. He said that what he was teaching was messy, few people teach messy as people like crisp, neat and tidy. But rarely to thing look neat and tidy in the chaos of combat. Messy in the visual sense not in the practical sense. Here is a video that is a stylised version of what we were doing and i can see many of the positions we trained in this drill.
The final part of the grappling tonight was countering the double wrist lock. Change levels and secure a hip capture palm to palm grip
Class notes March 2014: standing neck crank
The pummel: addition of detail from previous blog entries, when turning the shoulders for the underhook there is a slight pushing motion with the upper arm and shoulder. This subtle motion adds to moving the partner and affecting his balance. The rear arm is also activated so that the lat muscle is helping to secure his underhook and give it no space to move around.
Half Thai clinch: This was covered a few sessions ago but new details worth mentioning is that as he goes for his underhook you take the back of the head. You still have the underhook on the other side so clasping the shoulder and pivoting with help to to control him. I think we only looked at pivoting one way and that was towards half Thai clinch side. Full Thai clinch: don't let go of the contact to get it. Steps of the ladder. Swim your underhook out to get full clinch.
Arm drag: Trace the arm back, punch the hips and no matter what his size grab around at the hip bone. Any further and he can look for the DWL. DWL: Trace the arm back, rev the wrist and reach over his arm, maybe catching a naughty elbow on his nose on the way over... This is what can happen to the elbow on the ground if you chose not to tap when in a deep DWL:
Standing neck crank and the magic bones. If he goes low with the Thai clinch or head control you can look for this which at first glance is a guillotine. In fact it is a bloody horrendous neck crank. His head needs to be at your ribs just under the pec muscle and you want the hairline at the forehead to be on you. Slide your forearm along his jaw bone using the key bones of the arm, the 3-4 inches of ulnar and radius bone from the wrist crease, then go palm to palm. This driving of the forearm will cause the head to turn, as if he is looking across the front of your torso. As you push your hips forward pull the radius bone towards you causing both big pain in the jam but tremendous pressure on the neck.
This is a nice technique to use if you have gone for the choke and he has worked his head out. Even though we were not doing it hard, my neck is still not 'right' almost 3 hours later. If this was done in the heat of combat it really would mess up someone's neck for a long time. I have just looked at this bit with no sound so don't rely on my lip reading.
His use of the forearm looks really good in terms of what Martin was talking about as the key bones on the arm in grappling. The neck crank he does later on in the video, not the set up but the actual crank position looks quite similar to the one we were doing last night. It looks like nothing but until you have felt those bones grinding across your face, well enjoy the thinking about future parts of training we are yet to wince from.
Half Thai clinch: This was covered a few sessions ago but new details worth mentioning is that as he goes for his underhook you take the back of the head. You still have the underhook on the other side so clasping the shoulder and pivoting with help to to control him. I think we only looked at pivoting one way and that was towards half Thai clinch side. Full Thai clinch: don't let go of the contact to get it. Steps of the ladder. Swim your underhook out to get full clinch.
Arm drag: Trace the arm back, punch the hips and no matter what his size grab around at the hip bone. Any further and he can look for the DWL. DWL: Trace the arm back, rev the wrist and reach over his arm, maybe catching a naughty elbow on his nose on the way over... This is what can happen to the elbow on the ground if you chose not to tap when in a deep DWL:
Standing neck crank and the magic bones. If he goes low with the Thai clinch or head control you can look for this which at first glance is a guillotine. In fact it is a bloody horrendous neck crank. His head needs to be at your ribs just under the pec muscle and you want the hairline at the forehead to be on you. Slide your forearm along his jaw bone using the key bones of the arm, the 3-4 inches of ulnar and radius bone from the wrist crease, then go palm to palm. This driving of the forearm will cause the head to turn, as if he is looking across the front of your torso. As you push your hips forward pull the radius bone towards you causing both big pain in the jam but tremendous pressure on the neck.
This is a nice technique to use if you have gone for the choke and he has worked his head out. Even though we were not doing it hard, my neck is still not 'right' almost 3 hours later. If this was done in the heat of combat it really would mess up someone's neck for a long time. I have just looked at this bit with no sound so don't rely on my lip reading.
His use of the forearm looks really good in terms of what Martin was talking about as the key bones on the arm in grappling. The neck crank he does later on in the video, not the set up but the actual crank position looks quite similar to the one we were doing last night. It looks like nothing but until you have felt those bones grinding across your face, well enjoy the thinking about future parts of training we are yet to wince from.
Tuesday, 28 October 2014
class notes April 2013: throws
Front hip lift: as with the naming convention it simply refers to the part of the body being used and on occasion a direction. Start in standard shoulder control clinch and the secondary grip on the tricep. Transfer to side body clinch with head on shoulder blade, squeeze the elbow together, thrust with the hips as you look up and lift onto your arching chest. To complete the throw relax the shoulder and dump him on the floor with you in a dominant position to continue.
Back hip throw: first looking at using shoulder control and tricep grip then and underhook and overhook clinch grip as this secures their shoulders. Anyway the first one we looked at was concerning the feet. Initial step is in front of his foot, not past, get your hips lower than his then attack with your chasing foot. That one steps a little deeper between his legs and triggers a fast insert of your hips into his hip space. Lift and throw.
Double leg takedown into calf trip: starting front body clinch, drop and change the level to go for the double leg takedown. Importantly shift the stance back a little to enable you to get the front knee to the floor. From here wrap the outside leg around their front calf and drive forward, keep the calf wrapped and thus controlled when they are on their back, you then move into your next positional transition.
Sitting takedown from side body clinch: step behind his knee so that you are square in your stance. Simply, sit your arse down whilst maintaining your body clinch grip. He should go down with you. Do not turn or rotate him as you go down, trust the motion. Here is a great video of Rhonda Rousey in an open workout. She pulls off a few of the moves we trained tonight plus some we could never imagine!!!
Back hip throw: first looking at using shoulder control and tricep grip then and underhook and overhook clinch grip as this secures their shoulders. Anyway the first one we looked at was concerning the feet. Initial step is in front of his foot, not past, get your hips lower than his then attack with your chasing foot. That one steps a little deeper between his legs and triggers a fast insert of your hips into his hip space. Lift and throw.
Double leg takedown into calf trip: starting front body clinch, drop and change the level to go for the double leg takedown. Importantly shift the stance back a little to enable you to get the front knee to the floor. From here wrap the outside leg around their front calf and drive forward, keep the calf wrapped and thus controlled when they are on their back, you then move into your next positional transition.
Sitting takedown from side body clinch: step behind his knee so that you are square in your stance. Simply, sit your arse down whilst maintaining your body clinch grip. He should go down with you. Do not turn or rotate him as you go down, trust the motion. Here is a great video of Rhonda Rousey in an open workout. She pulls off a few of the moves we trained tonight plus some we could never imagine!!!
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