Creative warm up led by Joe including some partner body work drills such as piggy back squats, calf raises and torturous squats to jumping knee repetitions.
Head control into inner forearm choke. Worked on this section with Joe who rightly chastised me on my first go as the gap between my torso and his was cavernous. So with head control (primary grip) and with the tricep (secondary grip), feet inside his base I put the wrong arm into the choke. What again Joe pulled me up on was to use the secondary grip to use as the choking arm. I assume as this maintains better control of the opponent. In securing the choke from standing we take a both palms facing the torso grip at the wrists and stack the top forearm over his shoulder and onto his back and move your shoulder, arm under neck side, towards the wrist to close the choke.
Defence against inner forearm choke: first job is to look up and get the spine positive and drive up. Failing that, turn your face towards him. As Lee put it, “Sniff his side”. This releases the neck slightly and will mean he will need to go to option B, details to follow. As the head turns to face him, drop your level and try to take side control and snake the front arm behind his knee. From here you can lift quite effortlessly and spin into a slamming takedown.
Now if you are the attacker and he defends with the above head turn then keep turning with him, release the top hand so that it comes under as if to make an isosceles triangle. Lee made reference to this is how Machida was finished on his feet by Jon Jones earlier this year. I have made reference to this in a previous post as Rogan called this a power guillotine. Getting the elbows together really closes the choke off quickly and painfully.
Small gloves clinch phase fighting. We did this for several rounds. I got Lee last as well as pummelling. His striking and control was simultaneous whereas I was too busy trying to recover a decent posture. The lesson was the striking opens up chances to clinch and control and this to land even more effective strikes. It felt like a constant barrage of knees as my head was being ragged around and punches to keep the body in defensive movement. Finally it was friggin tiring. If your partner selects the tempo and is it is a high work rate then that is mentally very tough as there is no time to settle and get your bearings. I guess this is why fighters such as Nick Diaz, Michael Bisping, Frankie Edgar and Clay Guida are so successful s they give the opponents no time to settle into their game plan. After all it is a fight not a gentlemen’s duel from eighteenth century France.
Big gloves time: One partner simply hunts the other down with the double leg takedown shoot keeping the eyes up on the opponent and the elbows in tight to the ribs. Stander simply throws leather at the head. Round 1 I was rubbish; tense in the neck, eyes all over the place, flinching. But in the following rounds I realised I was not made of glass and built in confidence. Actually enjoyed it towards the end.
Not sure what else happened at the end of the session other than some tough strength and conditioning work; utkatasana (chair pose) from standing into squat and back up, various counts in push ups, core battering etc.
Really missed training last week so came away with a heightened sense of enjoyment. 2 days later my right ear hole still looks like the Bat Cave.
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