Okay, so yesterday their wasn't any hiking. It rained cats and dogs all day long and we even lost power for about six hours. Sooooooo, we'll try again on Thursday.
Cardio: 20 minutes of circuit plyo drills w/ Kaelyn
BJJ: Tonight Coach worked us out of side control. First our partner went to knee ride and we worked the far side armbar. Next, we worked the the Kimura from side control, and even tried the variation with your partner up on their side (in the position of a half far side armbar attempt). Lastly, he tied in a paper cutter choke to a failed Kimura position when your partner grabs their belt. With this one the key was to trap their Kimura'd hand (the one grabbing the belt) with their skirt and slide your other hand down to grab their collar. Next you moved to their back and take a side control position sinking the paper cutter choke.
Rolling went great. I started with Chelle (who is getting meaner by the class - hee hee). After that I rolled with Justin (white belt) and he asked a lot of questions about defending high mount, so I worked with him about keeping his elbows in and getting to the point of an elbow escape. For the last roll I had Dev K (blue belt). Dev is competing at the US Open this weekend so we went all out. It was a great roll and I tried to take back several times. He has a really good defense and when I ended up with him in my guard it became the beginning of the end.......for me :) He passed, I tried for neutral, he went to spider guard....and then pulled off one of the coolest sweeps ever when I went to spike pass him and get the mount. I went over like a rocket! It was pretty awesome actually and we spent about 30 seconds on the mat after he pulled it off just laughing...and me telling him that I didn't like him anymore :) Thanks Dev!
The money for tonight came after class was over and I stayed for open mat. While getting a drink of water Coach walked over and said "Are you waiting for me Mike?" Of course I am :) Who's going to turn down a beating by Coach!?! We rolled for about 6 or 8 minutes and I asked several questions about my position choices, but again, the money came when I told him that October is officially "back control" month for me. I have been gaming my rolls each time to end up there and work subs from harness. Once he new that the flood gates opened and he began to show me several positional do's and don'ts as well as transitions. I've worked a lot on the "bow and arrow choke", sliding collar choke, and chicken wing choke. I have also tried the body triangle and transition to an armbar...but not with much success. Tonight Coach showed me great strategies for setting up good armbar from the body triangle as well as how do properly set the "bow and arrow choke." He said that if the armbar doesn't set and your opponent defends and stacks you then just shuck and take his back again. Man...why haven't I ever tried that yet!?! Transition, transition, transition! In addition I got a good lesson on how to properly defend the "bow and arrow" and get to all fours. I CAN NOT begin to tell you how bright the light bulb was when it finally came on :) It was a HUGE night and I cannot thank Coach enough for taking the time to work with me when there was plenty of other people on the mat. The good thing is that I still have two weeks left in "back control month" and I'll be putting these lessons to good use :)
Words of wisdom from Coach: "Go for the better Bobka!" (come on Sienfeld fans!)
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