Artemis BJJ (MYGYM Bristol), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK - 07/09/2016
I first learned the shin-in-elbow trick from Ed Beneville's Strategic Guard, way back in 2008. It's not something I ever got to work, until Chiu Kwong Man taught an awesome class on it eight years later, at the inaugural UK BJJ Globetrotter Camp. First, sneak your hip blocking hand under their armpit, so you have the back of that hand in front of their shoulder. Do a quick bump with your hips, using the space to push off your hand and turn onto your side.
As soon as you do that, immediately pull your head back. If you curl forwards, they can get their arm around your neck and secure a bow-and-arrow grip on your collar. You also want to put your top knee up, to monitor their attempts to go to mount. The third big danger is that they will take your back. Keep your side glued to the floor, to prevent them getting their leg underneath and establishing an initial hook.
Grab their wrist with your bottom arm, using your other hand to support that (i.e., grip higher up on the arm). Straighten your arms. If you need to create more space, shrimp in towards them. Once there is enough space, insert your top knee into the crook of their elbow and extend. From here, you can use your other leg for base if they are crushing you down. Maintain your grip on their wrist, shifting the other hand behind their armpit. Get a good grip on their gi. In one motion, kick your inserted leg out, using that momentum to sit up, also pushing with your arms to swivel out.
Keep your grips on the arm, to stop them driving back in towards you. Even if they do start to drive in, at worst you should be able to get back to a guard position. If they raise up, that gives you the space to spin back to guard anyway.
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Teaching Notes: I was feeling confident after testing this in the women's class, which really helped getting the structure sorted. I was trying out teaching via multiple drills, splitting the technique into sections (as per that video, though I modified it slightly for the mixed class). I wanted to emphasise bringing the head back, so I started with that in the warm-up drills. I could combine it with arms, but I was keen to really highlight it, because curling is an easy mistake to make (like Chiu said back at the BJJ Globetrotter Camp).
Next time, push with the back of the hand and more details on bump at the start, emphasise keeping hold of the arm. I should also take another look another at the fiddly stuff Chiu did with his legs, as I was relying mainly on that knee. It will become more important when I get to teaching the triangle from underneath on Friday. So, first drill was turning away, little bump, bring head back, use knee to monitor against mount. When grabbing the wrist and putting your knee in, I was finding the upper knee was better for pushing them away, unlike the way Joe Moreira teaches it in Beneville's book.
In sparring, more playing around, trying out different stuff from top of side control. I was clinging on to a kimura as well, which led me into an armbar. I am loving the kimura grip, but I do need to be careful of my wrist.
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