Small class tonight with only 18 on the mat. Started with light rolling to warm up then went straight into doing our favorite sweep on an unresisting partner. After a few rounds of that we changed to sweep and sub. In sweep and sub, we perform our favorite sweep on our partner then we finish with a sub. For example, if we basic sweep our partner then we can do a lapel choke from mount, or an armbar from mount.

The Idea is to encourage an attack directly after the sweep. That way we can start to develop a swift attacking game as soon as possible.

We then moved onto armbars from side control. I received a copy of John and Daves Mastering Armbars DVD (see below) and was watching it all day. So we quickly covered of the following from the DVD.

Basic 'up and crush' armbar from side control. Preformed when we have the under hook on our opponents far arm.

Then, an armbar from overhook. Where we have our opponent's far arm overhooked. We control the pants on the near side and move around to top control, straighten their far arm our and swing through to the arm bar.

We finished off with the snap armbar from the near side. Our opponent is defending and nothing else, we slip our left hand under their right wrist and step over their head with our left foot. At the same time we sweep our right foot up behind their shoulder, as we sit back we bring our right knee up like a wiper to secure the arm.

Finished there and let those that wanted to have a roll.