Great class tonight. Coach went over sweeps from double hooks sitting guard. We covered the basic one arm over/one arm under roll back sweep into scarf hold, plus two variations. Variation 1 - opponent sits back so you arm drag and take back. Variation 2 - opponent takes solid posture with hands in so you lapel grip and technical stand (driving him into the mat at the same time) and then take back. Rolling went well tonight. I got two blue belts, a brand new white (young kid...I rolled just sweeps no subs with him and let him work anything) and coach. The Blue belts were good rolls and I worked the half guard stuff coach showed me earlier today. The real money for the night though came in open mat when I rolled with coach for 8 minutes...and almost died :) He fed me a lot of stuff (so he told me...and I could tell - ha!) that he apparently liked the way I took advantage of based on his comments after the roll. HOWEVER - he did make sure he CRUSHED me when I would get juuuuuuuuuuust close enough to a sub that he was done letting me have it...then BAM - Mike taps :)
Today was certainly on the top ten jiu jitsu days in my career. All I can say is - awesome :)
Coach Thomas pearl of wisdom from rolling with me on open mat - "When on the bottom get to the top....when on top stay on top."
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