6 Jan 10

Tonight's class was great. Coach drilled us on an oldie but a goody :) The five point armbar from guard. We started with the basic crossing the arm over the center line of the body, heel in hip to trap the arm, kick up into opposite shoulder and move into position looking into opponents ear, leg over head and then WHAM-O :) Coach labeled it "isolation, domination, dislocation" -ha! The variation I liked tonight though was adding an extra step after you've kicked up into the shoulder and moved into position. At that point you lock your other leg over their shoulder and cross your ankles to pinch down on them as a hold position. Then you can transition to the armbar and submit.

My first roll tonight was with Billy S. Always a good fight. I kept my theme for mount going and worked positioning to stabilize the mount and immediately secure high mount to work from. When he tried to roll I just transitions to back control and worked submissions from there. Next I rolled with Coach. Yeah, what can I say but butt kicking - hee hee. Its always awesome to roll with him though because the fluid technique and application of what he is doing is almost poetry in motion...even if it did feel like my head was going to pop off when he bow and arrow choked me. Both times..... Last I trained with Dev. We scrambled for a little bit and then my old man body tweaked my left knee. After that we took it slow for the remainder of that round and a second one. He helped me dissect my mount plan for the month and came up with some really good points (as usual). I think my flow is solid, but it will be even better after Friday when we dissect it a little more. I can't reveal the secrets yet - HA!

Anyway, great night overall and I'm looking forward to Friday!