Month of the Guard!

Oh yeah, back to safey safe! Its been a LONG time since I went to the guard first. I've got a plan...go figure....for this month as well. I have two sweep that are money (sweep A and the shin on belly open guard sweep) and the ezekiel choke. I've worked grips and setups before on both so I know kind of where I want to go with this. What I've found over the last couple months is that no matter where I started, when the opportunity arises I end up taking my opponents back :) I'm completely okay with that though, back is a great place to be!

I started the "month of the guard" tonight in class and, like always, Coach has ESP and worked us with a sweep for sweep drill at the beginning. Next we positioned sparred from...you guessed...guard. What, seriously, is it my friggin' birthday today!?! At the end of class, before we sparred, Coach showed us a great options for a sweep when your scissor sweep fails. It basically involves switching your grips lower and coming up on your shoulder to kick up and sweep your opponent over.

Sparring was awesome. I rolled every match tonight and pulled some great opponents. I started with Billy S. who getting to dang good by the day! Dev K. and I started in my guard (which I RARELY ever get to with him by the way) and I was able to set up some great sweeps against a guy thats as strong as a friggin' gorilla! I had Sergio (who gave me a good fight and wouldn't let me sink anything from his back!) and one more white belt (who was strong as hell...whats the deal with these Grape Apes!?!).

It was a great night in jits and I had an awesome workout this morning. Can't wait for Wednesday!