first day back in two weeks.
Got back onto the mats today for the first time in two weeks. I always hate taking breaks like that. It’s really difficult to explain the urge to train once you have experienced the first year or so. Its quite addicting.
My shoulder more or less held up, and I felt pretty good out there, tapped a bunch of white belts, and had lots of fun.
As far technique that was worked today, we spent some time working on armbar set ups from the bottom. I’ve always been good at this set up….
The other guy is in your guard (your legs are wrapped around his body and feet hooked together, ideally high up on his back with your hips raised). You are going to use your hips as a fulcrum against one of his arms (at the elbow) to break it in half.
Step by step how to accomplish this:
1.) make sure your guard is as high up on his back as possible. Select which arm you would like to break, say his left. Use your guard to break his posture down, get his head down toward your chest.
2.) take your right arm and cup behind his left arm (the one we are going to break) elbow. Make sure your reaching arm is over his forearm, and not behind/underneath hooking around.
3.) Once you have that hold in place you will want to reach up (shouldn’t be far because you have him broken down in your guard) to his opposite shoulder, the right one. Cup behind his shoulder and bring his body down, you should still maintain the hold from step two on the left arm.
He should now be kinda stuck down close to you, your hold on his left arm and the shoulder hold on his right should keep him here a bit.
4.) Next you will want to sit your hips out slightly towards the direction of the arm your breaking, the left side. Rest your left foot on his hip for now.
5.) You can let go of the shoulder hold on the right at this point. But, instead, raise your right leg up and go parralell across his back, the same place and length the sublime guys tattoo was on. Your hip escape to the left before should facilitate this easier.
6.) This leg will want to grip tightly to his back and shove him downward.
Maintain the hold on his left arm below. From here he should be stuck. In between your right leg, and the hold you have on his elbow.
7.) from here, hip escape further out, and swing your left leg up and around his face and head.
8.) to finish the armbar, make sure his thumb is pointing away from his body (if you’ve done everything right thus far it will be). Bring your hips aggressively into the elbow of his left arm.
This will focus the power of your entitre core, against that tiny little joint. It will break very quickly, and he will be in an enormous amount of pain.
Ideally you want to do be able to do this to a live resisting opponent, and in 3 seconds or so, depending on how you are setting it up.
In BJJ there are a million different ways to set up the same 8 submissions or so.
My shoulder more or less held up, and I felt pretty good out there, tapped a bunch of white belts, and had lots of fun.
As far technique that was worked today, we spent some time working on armbar set ups from the bottom. I’ve always been good at this set up….
The other guy is in your guard (your legs are wrapped around his body and feet hooked together, ideally high up on his back with your hips raised). You are going to use your hips as a fulcrum against one of his arms (at the elbow) to break it in half.
Step by step how to accomplish this:
1.) make sure your guard is as high up on his back as possible. Select which arm you would like to break, say his left. Use your guard to break his posture down, get his head down toward your chest.
2.) take your right arm and cup behind his left arm (the one we are going to break) elbow. Make sure your reaching arm is over his forearm, and not behind/underneath hooking around.
3.) Once you have that hold in place you will want to reach up (shouldn’t be far because you have him broken down in your guard) to his opposite shoulder, the right one. Cup behind his shoulder and bring his body down, you should still maintain the hold from step two on the left arm.
He should now be kinda stuck down close to you, your hold on his left arm and the shoulder hold on his right should keep him here a bit.
4.) Next you will want to sit your hips out slightly towards the direction of the arm your breaking, the left side. Rest your left foot on his hip for now.
5.) You can let go of the shoulder hold on the right at this point. But, instead, raise your right leg up and go parralell across his back, the same place and length the sublime guys tattoo was on. Your hip escape to the left before should facilitate this easier.
6.) This leg will want to grip tightly to his back and shove him downward.
Maintain the hold on his left arm below. From here he should be stuck. In between your right leg, and the hold you have on his elbow.
7.) from here, hip escape further out, and swing your left leg up and around his face and head.
8.) to finish the armbar, make sure his thumb is pointing away from his body (if you’ve done everything right thus far it will be). Bring your hips aggressively into the elbow of his left arm.
This will focus the power of your entitre core, against that tiny little joint. It will break very quickly, and he will be in an enormous amount of pain.
Ideally you want to do be able to do this to a live resisting opponent, and in 3 seconds or so, depending on how you are setting it up.
In BJJ there are a million different ways to set up the same 8 submissions or so.