As Lee was runnning late Mr Aylett senior put us through our paces. Opening by looking at submissions from unusal angles and positions followed by very alive pad work rounds.
Folded elbow extension from bottom control:
Straight elbow extension = classic arm bar image. The arm is straight from the wrist to the shoulder and away from the body.
Folded elbow extension = The arm is folded across their centreline from the shoulder.
Posture breaking: underhook an arm, palm to palm grip and pull him down on to you. Compress his tricep with top forearm. A very important point from Lee was that you must use the body and the arms to apply pressure. In this position arms are pulling down as chest is squeezing up. Several options now: Attempt to create pain on the tricep, arch the chest to pass the arm over to then grab far side lat and escape out or allow him a small space to try to escape by pulling his across your chest.
Arm across escape: Scissor your arm so that one is on his tricep and the on his face, and as if opening his posture. Control the head then you control the body.
Outside leg over: As you scissor turn your head towards his knee so that you are now perpendicular. As I have attacked the right arm initially, this move now means I need to pivot to the left. As I am pivoting I need to move my hips. The outside leg, for this example it was my right leg, sweeps over his face. The hamstring needs to right on his face.
Compress yourself: To enable tight control pull the knees into your chest and squeeze his back with your calves. The idea is that you are almost making yourself into a ball. This will make the position very tight for him. It is possible even without using your hands to establish control for a good 5 seconds. To make the control even tighter reach up and pull his near side shoulder down into your legs and tighten your vice like grip.
Extend from the chest for the sub: Lift and extend the chest for a swift and sweet submission.
Free form grappling: Much more top position and sweeping from me so I feel like I am making improvements to the grappling game. Final roll of the night was with Lee. Did not spend the whole time defending, managed to escape briefly on several occasions. At one point there was a hint of side control. Good hard fun. No more training at class for 10 days as I am off to Dubai at the weekend to see my two older boys. Hopefully going to get them grappling in the parks...
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Monday, 26 March 2012
Week 31: Groundwork
As Lee was running late tonight Mr Aylett senior took control of the class. We began by selecting one submission and then working it from positions not normally worked from. A very creative idea and opportunity to study positions
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Week 30: clinch, takedown and sparring
Under hooks swimming: Getting warmed up by moving around and looking to get both underhooks in on partner from standing. It is surprising how warm you get from a drill that on the outside looks quite simple.
Knee tapping: A great drill to get the legs warmed up for takedown work. Active movement and each person has to simply touch the knee (inside or outside) of the partner and escape out. After several rounds I ended up with Seb who consistently sets a relentless pace
Striking and shooting in for the double leg: Rounds of shooting for the single or double leg. Again with Seb’s relentless pace. The key for me was to keep the head up all the way through the motion. When shooting the chin would drop. Thankfully Seb repeatedly reminded me of my error. This was something I was able to work on later in the session when drilling the single leg capture. Doing this drill right is hard. Getting lazy with dropping the heads, the levels incorrectly or a slow shoot will result in sloppiness.
Big glove v small glove: striker vs shooter: As previous drill but gloved up. This is something I need considerably more time practising as getting a feel for the rhythm and timing of when to change levels is still a calculated thought process and not yet instinctive.
Single leg capture plus details from primary grip then distance and with arm contact: Started working from clinch range with primary shoulder grip and secondary wrist grip. Bump his arm (shoulder control) up as you step back and drop the lead knee to the floor. Capture behind the knee with a strong cupped palm, face against his torso on the outside, rear leg straight and driving the body into him. Next stage was to add the wrist raise. When in the finished position lead arm has captured the back of his knee and you have lifted his wrist high above your head. Next we added the step around coupled with the correct grip (elbow deep behind his knee and capture your own forearm to tighten the control on the leg. The final stage was stepping away from your partner, manipulating his arms as to distract from your intentions and shoot at speed for the single leg capture.
Double leg takedown: As above but work the details to keep them tight and precise.
Solo drill work on the visualisation and the 'L' shoot. Plus gloves at elbow to ribs. Lee demo’d a way to drill the work so far in lesson on your own. Place a pair of gloves on the floor to simulate our opponent’s feet. Simply visualise and shoot. 10, 000 times.
Free form hands (small gloves) in for the takedown: Striking was added to the mix and turns. Both partners striking but one had to shoot for the takedown or capture
Free form takedown into free form small glove sparring: The progression from the previous drill except when the first contact is made *takedown) the training continued into free form sparring (striking and grappling). Lee would then call a stop and the round started again. It has been a while since I sparred using small gloves. I had forgotten how advantageous they can be on the ground in terms of striking to distract from grappling. Several times I was in sticky situations; an inner forearm choke and an elbow extension. On both occasions I was cognisant of the striking tool. This gave my partner other things to consider and I managed to escape. After last week’s grappling frustrations I managed to fight more and sweep to get my back off the floor.
Knee tapping: A great drill to get the legs warmed up for takedown work. Active movement and each person has to simply touch the knee (inside or outside) of the partner and escape out. After several rounds I ended up with Seb who consistently sets a relentless pace
Striking and shooting in for the double leg: Rounds of shooting for the single or double leg. Again with Seb’s relentless pace. The key for me was to keep the head up all the way through the motion. When shooting the chin would drop. Thankfully Seb repeatedly reminded me of my error. This was something I was able to work on later in the session when drilling the single leg capture. Doing this drill right is hard. Getting lazy with dropping the heads, the levels incorrectly or a slow shoot will result in sloppiness.
Big glove v small glove: striker vs shooter: As previous drill but gloved up. This is something I need considerably more time practising as getting a feel for the rhythm and timing of when to change levels is still a calculated thought process and not yet instinctive.
Single leg capture plus details from primary grip then distance and with arm contact: Started working from clinch range with primary shoulder grip and secondary wrist grip. Bump his arm (shoulder control) up as you step back and drop the lead knee to the floor. Capture behind the knee with a strong cupped palm, face against his torso on the outside, rear leg straight and driving the body into him. Next stage was to add the wrist raise. When in the finished position lead arm has captured the back of his knee and you have lifted his wrist high above your head. Next we added the step around coupled with the correct grip (elbow deep behind his knee and capture your own forearm to tighten the control on the leg. The final stage was stepping away from your partner, manipulating his arms as to distract from your intentions and shoot at speed for the single leg capture.
Double leg takedown: As above but work the details to keep them tight and precise.
Solo drill work on the visualisation and the 'L' shoot. Plus gloves at elbow to ribs. Lee demo’d a way to drill the work so far in lesson on your own. Place a pair of gloves on the floor to simulate our opponent’s feet. Simply visualise and shoot. 10, 000 times.
Free form hands (small gloves) in for the takedown: Striking was added to the mix and turns. Both partners striking but one had to shoot for the takedown or capture
Free form takedown into free form small glove sparring: The progression from the previous drill except when the first contact is made *takedown) the training continued into free form sparring (striking and grappling). Lee would then call a stop and the round started again. It has been a while since I sparred using small gloves. I had forgotten how advantageous they can be on the ground in terms of striking to distract from grappling. Several times I was in sticky situations; an inner forearm choke and an elbow extension. On both occasions I was cognisant of the striking tool. This gave my partner other things to consider and I managed to escape. After last week’s grappling frustrations I managed to fight more and sweep to get my back off the floor.
Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Friday, 16 March 2012
Week 29: syllabus work
Footwork round kick drill: shin pads on and round kicking delight to our partners legs. No checking, blocking just evasive footwork combined with eyes up and tidy attack position hands. This started the night off nicely in terms of pain. I must have feet made of paper as even with swanky grappling socks on the balls of both feet became soft and felt as if containing small pockets of fluid. Gladly when I removed my socks at the end of the session there was no fluid neither clear nor red meeting my eyes.
I really enjoy this drill from the limited nature of it. I enjoy practising the opportunity to keep my eyes as as they tend to wander to the areas I am attacking. In addition pain is a great teacher and unless you want your legs smashed to bits you tend to move them quick quickly.
Free form stand up sparring
Lee then talked about strategy in the ring at the start of a fight. We looked at working on both intensity and relaxation opening rounds. We began with no engagement. Just getting our partners hopefully moving backwards from the wide range and frequency of our implied attacks and they to us. This progressed into starting in a similar fashion but when first contact was made it changed into free form sparring whilst maintaining same relaxation and intensity.
Chest spins with hooks in: keeping pressure just between their shoulder blades as spinning and thus transitioning from top to side to centre back control. Hands kept off the floor until in centre back control. Lee gave a great time to enable swifter and more secure control. By sitting up the hooks slide in easier than with the chest down. It does need to be swift as pressure needs to be applied to the back
Side back control ankle pick and hook in: this position was then tamed about Lee as a very advantageous position, in many ways more so than centre back control. From here with back pressure applied control the far side arm and pick up his far side ankle, nice and high. Step over whilst keeping hold you momentarily trap your own arm. Strip it out as the hook makes contact.
Side back control arm extension roll: a tricky sweep and submission needing a lot of commitment. Essentially you roll under his chest pulling him on top of you as you pass your leg over his head and he lands in a very deep arm extension. A tricky sub to pull of successfully but one that is most fun to practise.
Free form grappling with Ptas. Excuses time. He did a very good job tonight. Tight control and vicious submissions. Clearly I have spent too much time want to play as opposed to develop and learn. It is time that I worked to more advantageous positions than playing off my back. Whilst I enjoy it I am not developing. In addition I am spending too much time defending. Perhaps this means more time needs to be practising sweeping and reversing positions?
I really enjoy this drill from the limited nature of it. I enjoy practising the opportunity to keep my eyes as as they tend to wander to the areas I am attacking. In addition pain is a great teacher and unless you want your legs smashed to bits you tend to move them quick quickly.
Free form stand up sparring
Lee then talked about strategy in the ring at the start of a fight. We looked at working on both intensity and relaxation opening rounds. We began with no engagement. Just getting our partners hopefully moving backwards from the wide range and frequency of our implied attacks and they to us. This progressed into starting in a similar fashion but when first contact was made it changed into free form sparring whilst maintaining same relaxation and intensity.
Chest spins with hooks in: keeping pressure just between their shoulder blades as spinning and thus transitioning from top to side to centre back control. Hands kept off the floor until in centre back control. Lee gave a great time to enable swifter and more secure control. By sitting up the hooks slide in easier than with the chest down. It does need to be swift as pressure needs to be applied to the back
Side back control ankle pick and hook in: this position was then tamed about Lee as a very advantageous position, in many ways more so than centre back control. From here with back pressure applied control the far side arm and pick up his far side ankle, nice and high. Step over whilst keeping hold you momentarily trap your own arm. Strip it out as the hook makes contact.
Side back control arm extension roll: a tricky sweep and submission needing a lot of commitment. Essentially you roll under his chest pulling him on top of you as you pass your leg over his head and he lands in a very deep arm extension. A tricky sub to pull of successfully but one that is most fun to practise.
Free form grappling with Ptas. Excuses time. He did a very good job tonight. Tight control and vicious submissions. Clearly I have spent too much time want to play as opposed to develop and learn. It is time that I worked to more advantageous positions than playing off my back. Whilst I enjoy it I am not developing. In addition I am spending too much time defending. Perhaps this means more time needs to be practising sweeping and reversing positions?
Sunday, 11 March 2012
Week 28: grappling and sparring
Grappling class
No Lee tonight So Pete skilfully and dutifully stepped in.
Warm up: myriad of work down the matts to get the body ready for grappling: rolling, dragging and even the triangle pose from yoga too.
Bottom control disengage:
Person on the bottom needs to get up and away
Side control battle:
Get out of it by sweeping, reversing or regaining at least half bottom control.
Free form favourite submission denied: this was the limit placed on the drill by Pete. I selected leg suppression as my favourite but was working with a newer member so spent the time helping him to strangle me.
Eyes closed free form: worked with Ray who I have not seen for a while and through a post grappling chat discovered that he has shed 8 stones in weight! Astonishing work Ray
4 in the middle tag team for the rest. The brave souls in the middle had to grapple to submission before receiving a fresh body to work with. I enjoyed the physical chess with Sami, then Pete and finally Mischel.
Free form with Tasio and Seb. The most memorable significant part of the free form was the double crushing Seb doled out. He excellent base, use of weight and technique. In addition he continually attacks
No Lee tonight So Pete skilfully and dutifully stepped in.
Warm up: myriad of work down the matts to get the body ready for grappling: rolling, dragging and even the triangle pose from yoga too.
Bottom control disengage:
Person on the bottom needs to get up and away
Side control battle:
Get out of it by sweeping, reversing or regaining at least half bottom control.
Free form favourite submission denied: this was the limit placed on the drill by Pete. I selected leg suppression as my favourite but was working with a newer member so spent the time helping him to strangle me.
Eyes closed free form: worked with Ray who I have not seen for a while and through a post grappling chat discovered that he has shed 8 stones in weight! Astonishing work Ray
4 in the middle tag team for the rest. The brave souls in the middle had to grapple to submission before receiving a fresh body to work with. I enjoyed the physical chess with Sami, then Pete and finally Mischel.
Free form with Tasio and Seb. The most memorable significant part of the free form was the double crushing Seb doled out. He excellent base, use of weight and technique. In addition he continually attacks
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