Side Control Escapes

Today we continued the drill where we got on our knees in order to take the opponent down.

1) double leg
2) single leg
3) head between the knees, hindu pushup, choose one side to hold and take them down that way.

4) Another way to defend the torreando pass is to block your opponent like usual. My hand closer to his body reached and holds onto his cross facing arm's elbow and push it inward. I should be in a shrimped out position (facing away from opponent). I now release the arm stiffing his shoulder to grab his belt . Allow the opponent to drop on me. Get parallel to the opponent and as he drops roll him over to the other side so that I am on top. Use the belt to pull him over. Remember you can't be perpendicular to your opponent when attempting this, you must be in like a 69 position to perform the rollover. lol This is a really good way to reverse the positions. I anticipate the torreando pass and then I immediately use the opponent's driving force and appl y the technique. Works pretty well. Watch head placement so I don't smash my own head.

- one thing worth noting on the takedowns from your knees is not only should your head be on the same side that it's already on when your opponent attempts to pass, your body needs to pretty much be directly in front of your opponent's body for it to work. I was slanted when I got on my knees and it disabled my ability to perform the takedowns correctly.

Rolling

-Doc: took Doc's back. Went for bow and arrow which he blocked and I didn't see the armbar when he was defending. I need to stop linear thinking and not think "I will perform this move and if this doesn't work try something else." Think along the lines of "This probably will not work, so I should anticipate his reaction and react accordingly."

-Dennis: struggled a little with side mount escape. susceptible to bow and arrow chokes from the back.

-Kayla

-Randi

Danny omoplata to armbar. If omoplata does not work, Switch my triangle on the shoulder and have my outside foot behing the neck of the opponent. Allow myself to roll to belly down and then intoan armbar on my back. Ian had another way of doing this by cutting straight to the chase. Something like placing my outside foot behind the opponent's neck from the beginning and using it to driving him down then belly down roll over to armbar? Ask him later

 ***I am really liking the inverted triangle. It has really opened up my game.