December 1st. just for Dion

About 12 people in class.

Started with warm-up exercises, including 'hip-outs' and 'reverse shrimping'.

Did some basic movement drills related to triangle and arm-bar from guard.

Reviewed two of the four techniques for opponent in 'turtle' position learned at John's seminar last week.

Paired up and drilled those two techniques. Starting position is defender hipping-out from side control to knees. Attacker quickly moves to side-back control and performs one of those two techniques to turn them back over to side control. Repeated as many times as necessary until it became 'automatic'.

Sparring from knees in three-minute rounds.

Comments:
Was good to revisit seminar techniques while they were still fresh in our minds. Class was very good, however some seemed to still miss the main point of the drilled exercise, so let me elaborate…

The focus was NOT "how to kimura your opponent beginning from turtle position".

The focus was on how to slot this kind of movement into your game to sustain the attacking momentum. Or to spell it out: as your opponent is still hipping-out from side control to knees, you are already moving to side-back control - when your opponent arrives in turtle, you are already moving to roll him/her over again; you don't suffer 'brain-freeze' in your game and your opponent is always 'on the back foot', never getting time to settle in their game.

An observation: some people still trying to "rip their arm out" to escape arm-bar from guard. This is a risky way to escape. It relies on your opponent being sufficiently aware of your movement to be able to release the arm in time. If they do the arm-bar properly, the arm will straighten and you risk injury to yourself. It is safer to keep the arm bent, temporarily stacking your oppenent to work the elbow free and pass their guard.

Cheers,
Dion.

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