We hit the mat this morning at 6:30am,( yes we are mad !). Anyway we kicked off by doing some rounds once again focussing on escapes, this sort of training assumes that you know the mechanics of the escapes, so we can focus on timing and identifying the "critical moment" (see John Wills blogg for more on that concept). From there we did rounds of arm-tracking to defend as our opponent passes our guard, we then added in the use of our legs, finishing up with a sweep or replacing them into our guards, where we can finish our opponent. Next up we worked some rounds of elbow-knee, the idea here is that one partner basically rolls with you attempting to get a position, the other partner just defends using the elbow-knee, the idea is that u have your elbow-knee defence organised its actually very difficult for your opponent to cement a position on you, hence they its harder to sub you. Next we did some quick drilling, 10 passes, on the 1oth one we foccused on what each limb was doing, as John tells us to do everytime he comes. We finished up doing some rounds of defending the guard pass, reversing the situation and finishing or just defending the pass and finishing our opponent.