Fundamentals 16 in class.
With the change to Mon and Wed the pressure has eased somewhat on the Fundamentals time slot. Tonight’s class was made up of beginners and as such I was able to focus on the big problem for most of them in the 45-split classes: Escapes.
Starting from the beginning again we covered the basic side control escapes.

Starting with Escape to guard: From side control, our partner has both arms on the far side of our body, we move to a position where they are touching our forearms and thighs, bump and hip out towards their head. Then slide our bottom knee through the gap between us, use our knee as a brace on their body and straighten our body up with theirs and put them in our guard.

Escape to our knees: This time our partner has blocked our hip with their hand, So from our back we bump and hip out until we can move the hand nearest their head to under the arm that is blocking our hip. From there we hip out until we have aligned our body with theirs. Then we swing our legs and go belly down under their chest, we then drive our legs under us and move into their base.

Underhook escape to the back: We have the underhook on our partners arm, raising our elbow we shrimp downwards and duck out the back. From there we throw our arm over their back and secure side back control on our knees.

We finished class with some simple points on Underhook, pillow defence and staying on our side to help escape the position.