Started with quick warm up using basic movements: hip-outs, reverse shrimping, 'Barbosa' shrimping. Then a few minutes of pass or sweep. Technique: How to apply pressure to an opponent who 'turtles'. 1. Sprawl, put weight with chest on opponents back, move around to side of still turtling opponent - keep weight on! 2. Drive knee underneath opponent and look for 'clock choke' grip. 3. Drive opponent with chest, adjusting grip on neck appropriately, until you barrel them into 'arm-enclosed side control'.
4. As opponents arm is trapped, switch base to rear, and take mount. 5. Change grips to take opponent's still trapped arm their face and slide up into side mount. 6. Release wrist to take far lapel and finish with lape half nelson choke. Optional finish with armbar.
The class consisted of alternate rounds of light-sparring and sparring, with various stages of the technique taught in between.
A lot of the class don't have a 'game' to deal with opponents who turtle up. This circuit gives you a starting point and a strategy for how to deal with that position. Ask Dion for a review of this circuit, and for rollover variations.
Cheers, Dion.