Class #1123
Fighting Fit Stone, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 16-17/03/2018
ARMBAR ESCAPES
On applying armbars, you only need one shoulder. You can triangle the arm and hook your leg under them. You can even go under their head.
For armbar escape, thumb down, elbow away from their stomach. Other elbow blocking their other foot, free shoulder. Come up on elbow, turn away. Or, bring legs towards them, don't be perpendicular. Can do a bridge, jump over with omoplata. Always keep that thumb down.
With kimura grip, seeing which direction the hand can move. Sometimes it is hitchhiker, but mostly going towards elbow, put weight on elbow. Don't be perpendicular, moving your alignment so you end up in a line.
As ever, don't be flat, turn slightly. Same as when they try to grab your leg, turn, keep your leg down so they can't do cradle or spider web or whatever.
GRİLLED CHİCKEN
Arms on outside, keep that connection. Can use them to base, also always ready to push on the shin. İf the shins step back to stop your push, they will probably lean in, so you can push on the arm instead.
İf they get your hips up, shuffle back on your shoulders. İf there is distance (or they are trying to bring your feet to the mat), sit up. Avoid crossing your leg right over, keep that tense and ready to push, weaving back in not just flopping right across.
Priit did an interesting block of knee cut. Hooks over the top, elbow is on their knee, reaching down. Though I think that was a later defence, not sure. This was after class, she. he was working through some questions with Karla.
Also, reverse DLR type, push on hip. Knee shield, grab their head. Can kind of berimbolo them from there. Also, wrapping arm behind your leg to go for it.
İf they leg drag, your dragged leg knee points down (you need to be careful of leglocks here), blocking their shin with your hand, or their arm. Your other foot pushes into their same side hip.
With over under, grab their wrist rather than blocking the hip. Keep grilled chicken so you can spin. He also talked about sitting up, head in front of hips. just like grilled chicken is knees to chest, sitting guard is chest to knees.
İn the vids, Priit managed to sweep them right over by rolling through, or pulling arm into knee and tilting. The roll through was opposite shoulder, continuing that motion.
Q & A
For stack pass, never has head directly in the middle. He keeps it off to the side.
Showing posts with label BJJ Globetrotter Mini-Camp Stafford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BJJ Globetrotter Mini-Camp Stafford. Show all posts
17 March 2019
11 November 2018
Priit Mihkelson UK Mini Camp 4, November 2018
Class #1072
Fighting Fit Stone, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 10/11/2018
Posture inside the guard. Lean back, on toes, hands by the hip, slight back curve. Can open fairly easy from here, due to all that pressure on their ankles. Raise a knee, angle in, posting hand on arm. Other arm, elbow to knee. You can lean into them too, swan hands around triceps, hopping up to pass. Leaning forwards. Head towards mat.
With the squishy leaning forwards pass, head right on the mat, don't lift. Lead with your hip. Head post on the side you're NOT passing, use head to drag their head back (not your elbow, at least initially). Keep hips low, will eventually need to switch hips to maintain that pressure. Wriggle leg over shin to get past their leg.
Sequence is lean back one, then pin wrists. They free one, leg up on that side. Then into swan hands and pass.
Side control, basics. Then on Sunday, dealing with underhooks. This was cool, but it didn't take as much for me to make some kind of sense of it, I do similar things already in side control. The one I was waiting for came on the last day, back escapes. The focus was on the 'panda', where you're sat with your legs outstretched, leaning forwards. I've been trying this a lot in sparring, as part of the running escape > turtle > panda sequence.
In panda, lean way forward, grabbing their hooking feet to disconnect the hips, elbows inside. You can then do Saulo's classic scoop escape, but be careful if you still have the feet: stresses their knee. Or at least, I felt a twinge when my partner moved forwards quickly in that position, so I had to ask them to let go of my feet to do it.
You can also pull leg across and turn to step up. If they're close enough, you can reach back to grab their head after controlling their leg, then turn. Go to over under instead if their back is too straight to grab the head. Be careful of the triangle though, if you aren't turned.
With harness, get one leg off, underhook their leg and turn. Don't let them cross their feet over your arm. Can also grab head, turning your body to avoid chokes/armbar, twist and pull in their head, then turn to the top.
Priit had a two hour open mat to finish, so I took the opportunity to ask for pointers on that Priit sequence I've been playing with since last November. First thing from running escape, hide knee inside your leg, curled in. Turn your head down to the mat (I think? Odd, must be a reason). When turning to turtle, cover the near hook with arm, so you have a block if they try to sneak the near hook under. Walk legs away to create an angle before you turn turn to turtle.
İn turtle, turn head towards them, knees wide. When you want to move to panda, you can do as usual. You can also post your outside arm (they can't grab it, after all), or across with your arm, using that to get to butterfly. Something to play with until I can check with Priit again.
On an unrelated note, my awesome hosts were Jenny and Rich, whose beagles are adorable! :D
Fighting Fit Stone, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 10/11/2018
Posture inside the guard. Lean back, on toes, hands by the hip, slight back curve. Can open fairly easy from here, due to all that pressure on their ankles. Raise a knee, angle in, posting hand on arm. Other arm, elbow to knee. You can lean into them too, swan hands around triceps, hopping up to pass. Leaning forwards. Head towards mat.
With the squishy leaning forwards pass, head right on the mat, don't lift. Lead with your hip. Head post on the side you're NOT passing, use head to drag their head back (not your elbow, at least initially). Keep hips low, will eventually need to switch hips to maintain that pressure. Wriggle leg over shin to get past their leg.
Sequence is lean back one, then pin wrists. They free one, leg up on that side. Then into swan hands and pass.
Side control, basics. Then on Sunday, dealing with underhooks. This was cool, but it didn't take as much for me to make some kind of sense of it, I do similar things already in side control. The one I was waiting for came on the last day, back escapes. The focus was on the 'panda', where you're sat with your legs outstretched, leaning forwards. I've been trying this a lot in sparring, as part of the running escape > turtle > panda sequence.
In panda, lean way forward, grabbing their hooking feet to disconnect the hips, elbows inside. You can then do Saulo's classic scoop escape, but be careful if you still have the feet: stresses their knee. Or at least, I felt a twinge when my partner moved forwards quickly in that position, so I had to ask them to let go of my feet to do it.
You can also pull leg across and turn to step up. If they're close enough, you can reach back to grab their head after controlling their leg, then turn. Go to over under instead if their back is too straight to grab the head. Be careful of the triangle though, if you aren't turned.
With harness, get one leg off, underhook their leg and turn. Don't let them cross their feet over your arm. Can also grab head, turning your body to avoid chokes/armbar, twist and pull in their head, then turn to the top.
Priit had a two hour open mat to finish, so I took the opportunity to ask for pointers on that Priit sequence I've been playing with since last November. First thing from running escape, hide knee inside your leg, curled in. Turn your head down to the mat (I think? Odd, must be a reason). When turning to turtle, cover the near hook with arm, so you have a block if they try to sneak the near hook under. Walk legs away to create an angle before you turn turn to turtle.
İn turtle, turn head towards them, knees wide. When you want to move to panda, you can do as usual. You can also post your outside arm (they can't grab it, after all), or across with your arm, using that to get to butterfly. Something to play with until I can check with Priit again.
On an unrelated note, my awesome hosts were Jenny and Rich, whose beagles are adorable! :D
26 November 2017
26/11/2017 - Priit Mihkelson Mini Camp | The Back | Active Turtle
Class #927
Fighting Fit, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 26/11/2017
You have one leg up, same side arm in the hip, defending. Other knee is down, on toes, then hand down. There was a lot of detail on counters to various common attempts at breaking it, like hooks and the like. Switching sides is one good broad purpose defence, often putting them in your guard. It fits in nicely with the same posture Priit uses inside closed guard: everything about his system is satisfyingly cyclical.
Fighting Fit, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 26/11/2017
You have one leg up, same side arm in the hip, defending. Other knee is down, on toes, then hand down. There was a lot of detail on counters to various common attempts at breaking it, like hooks and the like. Switching sides is one good broad purpose defence, often putting them in your guard. It fits in nicely with the same posture Priit uses inside closed guard: everything about his system is satisfyingly cyclical.
26/11/2017 - Priit Mihkelson Mini Camp | The Back | Passive Turtle
Class #926
Fighting Fit, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 26/11/2017
Just as he said later in the seminar, it was better having already seen it before. I got way more out of it this time. Though he mentioned he was going to talk more about open guard later. Same position as open guard, flipped. So, elbows same place, everything is the same. You're not blocking on your neck, your elbows are in your thighs.
Triangle of base, make sure you have toes on the mat. Look to the side they're on, but only a slight turn. Toes very important, if they try and pull, you need to be able to adjust. Be aware that toe flexibility can be a problem, such as when they put pressure into back of your legs. Try to samurai sit, toes on the mat, could be good for posture too. Good idea on coaching, sit like that when watching a demonstration. Same with Asian squat, or stretching out the hips, that's worth mentioning when I teach next. If they try to pull legs up when facing the other way, spin.
When they hook, just straighten your leg and turn. Could be you fall to panda, or you go to guard. Or, straighten your leg to put their hook off. You might need to brush it off with your foot too. Some other postures, fall to your side on your elbow, outside leg up, inside knee towards them. Outside arm is in tight, elbow still where it was before. Frame with that arm, then you can move to pull guard.
Don't let them connect their hands. If they start to push through, your blocks should give you enough time to react. If they reach (e.g., for a guillotine), you can grab their hand, grabbing their wrist with the other hand. That gives you a strong position. Also, grabbing wrist and elbow, pushing foot into hip. You could also fall with a straight leg. Can also try outside foot inside their knee, use that as a block.
Then there is the importance of wrist fighting. Block their wrists of they try to get their hands in. Cover the fingers with your hands. Or even the web between thumb and finger. You don't want them to link their hands. Keep your elbows on your hips, I think.
If they try to put a hook on, pry off with elbow. Or, you could go double under with your arms to block it. It may also give you the opportunity to turn into guard. Nice drill: on granby when next to them, turn your near shoulder right over to where your outside shoulder was, then granby roll. Can do that drill side to side.
The same panda position can work when facing them too. Just keep that space controlled, don't let them in. It applies to combat base too also butterfly guard. He might do a seminar on that too some time, leading with the head and head fighting. The forward panda is basically butterfly guard. Great philosophical point, you learn how to pass from the process of passing the guard, not from actually getting past the guard.
From turtle, put your arm across to your other shoulder range on the mat, same side leg out over there, straight into panda. Then he moved into side control too, same kind of posture. Not sure I got it, but Heidelcamp vids should help. Hooking over your leg into the back of their knee when they try to hook. Try and block it. It was fun and sparring with Steph, against her panda. Hooking the leg helped, but watch out for the fireman's carry/kata guruma.
Fighting Fit, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 26/11/2017
Just as he said later in the seminar, it was better having already seen it before. I got way more out of it this time. Though he mentioned he was going to talk more about open guard later. Same position as open guard, flipped. So, elbows same place, everything is the same. You're not blocking on your neck, your elbows are in your thighs.
Triangle of base, make sure you have toes on the mat. Look to the side they're on, but only a slight turn. Toes very important, if they try and pull, you need to be able to adjust. Be aware that toe flexibility can be a problem, such as when they put pressure into back of your legs. Try to samurai sit, toes on the mat, could be good for posture too. Good idea on coaching, sit like that when watching a demonstration. Same with Asian squat, or stretching out the hips, that's worth mentioning when I teach next. If they try to pull legs up when facing the other way, spin.
When they hook, just straighten your leg and turn. Could be you fall to panda, or you go to guard. Or, straighten your leg to put their hook off. You might need to brush it off with your foot too. Some other postures, fall to your side on your elbow, outside leg up, inside knee towards them. Outside arm is in tight, elbow still where it was before. Frame with that arm, then you can move to pull guard.
Don't let them connect their hands. If they start to push through, your blocks should give you enough time to react. If they reach (e.g., for a guillotine), you can grab their hand, grabbing their wrist with the other hand. That gives you a strong position. Also, grabbing wrist and elbow, pushing foot into hip. You could also fall with a straight leg. Can also try outside foot inside their knee, use that as a block.
Then there is the importance of wrist fighting. Block their wrists of they try to get their hands in. Cover the fingers with your hands. Or even the web between thumb and finger. You don't want them to link their hands. Keep your elbows on your hips, I think.
If they try to put a hook on, pry off with elbow. Or, you could go double under with your arms to block it. It may also give you the opportunity to turn into guard. Nice drill: on granby when next to them, turn your near shoulder right over to where your outside shoulder was, then granby roll. Can do that drill side to side.
The same panda position can work when facing them too. Just keep that space controlled, don't let them in. It applies to combat base too also butterfly guard. He might do a seminar on that too some time, leading with the head and head fighting. The forward panda is basically butterfly guard. Great philosophical point, you learn how to pass from the process of passing the guard, not from actually getting past the guard.
From turtle, put your arm across to your other shoulder range on the mat, same side leg out over there, straight into panda. Then he moved into side control too, same kind of posture. Not sure I got it, but Heidelcamp vids should help. Hooking over your leg into the back of their knee when they try to hook. Try and block it. It was fun and sparring with Steph, against her panda. Hooking the leg helped, but watch out for the fireman's carry/kata guruma.
25 November 2017
25/11/2017 - Priit Mihkelson Mini Camp | Open Guard | Grilled Chicken
Class #925
Fighting Fit, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 25/11/2017
After watching Braulio stymie Galvao with his guard at ADCC 2013, Priit developed what he calls the 'grilled chicken' guard. Keep your knees wide, toes up, elbows on the outside, pressing into the mat. Use your elbows to wriggle, a kind of elbow shrimp. From this platform, you can 360, swinging your legs all the way round. You end up in an inverted position, so bring your arms up to help with the strain on that, you don't want to go further than your body allows. My first attempt at drilling that after the weekend below:
If they and push your legs up, put your head on the mat, arch your back with tailbone pressing down, legs relaxed. I felt like I was coming up too high, so I'll keep working on that. If they try and throw you to the side, your elbow hits the ground like a strut, blocks that throw. Also, post your hand on their shoulder and move back (like the usual Ryan Hall/Jeff Rockwell stuff I've been playing with for a while now), then leading with the head to stop them pushing you down. You can also post on wrist, knee, elbow etc, along with collar ties.
The next two hours, I had trouble remembering anything. There was some kind of reverse de la Riva to block the knee slide, that's about the only vague thing that stuck. I'll need to review my video. There was also the interesting point on grabbing four fingers, as a nogi spider guard, end of the lever. But is it legal?
Fighting Fit, Priit Mihkelson, Stafford, UK - 25/11/2017
After watching Braulio stymie Galvao with his guard at ADCC 2013, Priit developed what he calls the 'grilled chicken' guard. Keep your knees wide, toes up, elbows on the outside, pressing into the mat. Use your elbows to wriggle, a kind of elbow shrimp. From this platform, you can 360, swinging your legs all the way round. You end up in an inverted position, so bring your arms up to help with the strain on that, you don't want to go further than your body allows. My first attempt at drilling that after the weekend below:
If they and push your legs up, put your head on the mat, arch your back with tailbone pressing down, legs relaxed. I felt like I was coming up too high, so I'll keep working on that. If they try and throw you to the side, your elbow hits the ground like a strut, blocks that throw. Also, post your hand on their shoulder and move back (like the usual Ryan Hall/Jeff Rockwell stuff I've been playing with for a while now), then leading with the head to stop them pushing you down. You can also post on wrist, knee, elbow etc, along with collar ties.
The next two hours, I had trouble remembering anything. There was some kind of reverse de la Riva to block the knee slide, that's about the only vague thing that stuck. I'll need to review my video. There was also the interesting point on grabbing four fingers, as a nogi spider guard, end of the lever. But is it legal?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)