Today we rolled a few rounds before spending some time drilling two different sidecontrol escapes that allow you to replace the guard when yr opponent has a control of your neck and head. From there we moved onto escaping knee-ride replacing the guard and moving straight into the butterfly sweep. Finally we worked on going to an open guard when our opponent is agressive and foces us back from head to head, from there we moved into the o/hook submissions from the open guard.

Today we once again rolled a few rounds focussing on our movement and escapes, before we repped out some submissions, we then spent some time going over the double leg take-down from the knees, and then the Iranian as John calls it. We repped this out and looked at specific times when it should be used in wrestling. The second problem we worked on was escaping side back control, once again we repped this out to build it into our games. To finish off we spent some time drilling the arm-wrap or over-hook control from both open and closed guard, we finished off by working some submissions and sweeps from the o/hook control, specifically we covered the hook sweep from the o/h control, the reverse hooking sweep from the o/h control, the cutting armbar from the o/h control, the regular armbar from the o/h control, the omoplata from the o/h control, the triangle from the o/h control, and finally the basic choke from the o/hook control.

Today we rolled a few rounds focussing on our escapes once again, we then spent sometime doijng rounds of guard training, focussing on maintaining our distance and changing the angles on our partner, we then complimented this by introducing some controls, specifically the arm-wrap, or overhook control.

Today we kicked off with a few rounds of rollin to warmup, once again focussing on our defensive skills, the whole idea here was that if they cannot control you then they have less confidence in subbing you. Next we spent some time on what to do when your sweep does not work, we focussed on maintaining the hooks and looking to sub or sweep them again depending on how our opponent blocked our original sweep attempt, this actually worked quite well and helped us develop a sense of timing with our guard games, it also added a bit more "depth"From there we moved onto doing rounds of escapes, once again working on our timing, finally we finished off by repping out some submissions.

This morning we kicked by rolling a few rounds and focussing on our escapes once again, some improvement from yesterdays session, but we still need to get our "timing" back. From there we moved onto repping out some subs, the focuss here was on adding 10% intensity to the submissoion, to make it even worse for our opponent. We then carried on working on our guard passing, focussing on angles and posture to solve problems. Finally we repped out a few kneeride escapes that took us from escaping the knee-ride and moving to our half guard.

Today we kicked off by rollin and focussing on our escapes, it was crap so we have a lot of work to do in the coming weeks. From there we drilled out a sub before hitting some more guard passing stuff. Today we loked at ways of controlling the guard players leg, we then drilled a version of the jump over pass, we then just rolled focussing on the guard pass, over and over again.

A late post for Mondays session. We essentially made a committment to improving our guard passing, a high proportion of BJJ is about the Guard and Guard passing, so it makes sense to become very very good at passing the guard. We kicked off by rollin a few rounds to warm up, we then did rounds where one side actively looks to pass the guard whilst the other partner looks to sweep and finish their opponent. It was as hard work as we repeated this over and over again, but some great gains were made for our efforts, we also introduced the notion of changing direction when the guard player blocks your passing attempt, finally we moved into the area of using different pieces of a few different passes to solve the problems that guard players may throw at us.