Training Log: Entry 252

BJJ and MT tonight

Summary of BJJ:
Warm-up
New techniques

Warm-up: Did some more pummeling today.  Still very fluid.  Managed to score double underhooks a few times.  I do well to lower my center of gravity rather than stand bolt upright.

Drilled guard passes today, just what I needed.

Bottle opener: Palms on floating ribs push up, elbows in.  Knee in butt.  Push away, come upright, use elbow as pressure on inner thigh to break guard.

From here, transition by placing the knee in butt up.  This blocks off armbars and triangles.  Place knee on outside thigh, hands in armpits, then slide over thigh to pass from open guard to side control.

If placing knee on inside thigh, use other foot to trap down inside thigh while transitioning across to prevent from being put in half guard.

If put into half guard, use "jack knife" half guard pass.  Get underhooks, jack knife hips into air, base, the utilize foot of leg not trapped in half guard onto the opponents thigh to put pressure.  From here you can pop into full mount or side control. 

Overall: Outstanding class.  I get caught in these situations a lot, so it was good to learn it.

MT:
Summary of class:
Warm-up
Drills
Conditioning

Warm-up
Note: Form was way off on heavybag.  Almost broke a toe.  Might have affected training performance.

Drills:
Straight boxing with leg kick.  Defender defends punches and eats leg kick.

Note to self: Remind partner next time to punch at face, not gloves.  Did not get much practice parrying.  However, did utilize lateral/circular movement rather than just front/back as a means of defense.

Same as above with inclusion of armkick as a diversion of leg kick. 
Note: Defense against an armkick is like a high defense against a leg kick

Sparring with the goal to be to score the most outside leg kicks

Notes: Outstanding job of keeping my chin tucked and hands up.  However, one very tall opponent kept landing shots to my forehead.  Better the forehead than the face, but still, need more defense.  Attention was diverted away from defending punches and more focused on defending kicks.  Though that was the purpose of this drill in particular, must not let bad habits form during sparring.  Did a great job of putting my jab in people's faces while avoiding their own.  Only had 3 leg kicks landed total on me in 4 rounds.  Dished out a lot more.  Was able to let my hands fly, but need to keep those elbows in.  As always, people recover poorly from kicking and set themselvs up for counter punches or kicks

Conditioning: Not too tough.  Did some great ab work.