I decided to take a break and go train again yesterday because I really liked the focus on x-guard for the week and did not want to miss out on any cool techniques Felipe shows.
We continued working on getting into x-guard from spider by the triple sweep motion and also from the belt with a slight variation. If I am playing open guard my opponent stuffs my feet between his legs and places his weight on me to keep me from using my guard, I am pretty much in butterfly guard so what I do is have one arm pushing him while I kick out with my hooks and immediately rush in from the belt grab in butterfly position. Now I have my right hook in, shoot my left leg through while pulling my partner on top of me and lifting him to establish the x-guard.
We learned a couple sweeps from x-guard:
1) If the opponent has his weight back I place both "feet" on his inside left thigh and I stretch/ kick it out and curl my legs back in and stand.
2) In x-guard I grip partner's right leg on my shoulder and bring it to the other side of me. Or better I think ducking under and shifting my body to the other side is good too. Move myself not my partner. So after bring my partner's leg over my face I can:
a) grip opponent's right sleeve with my right hand (MG grip) and myleft hand releases his right leg to grab his belt from behind. Now I sweep him backwards.
b) Grab his belt with my left hand and swim through with my right hand like we've been working on to get to his back and have my shin behind partner's knees. Now I let let him ride until he falls into my lap and I have his back. Or I swim to the back and grab both his ankles and force him forward with my knees.
Rolling:
Robert: I played it smart and kept low and he caught me in a triangle. Pretty much defended it until the last minute by stacking him and making sure I has space to breath.
Doc: played low and fought for the belt grip to play x-guard. Unable to lift Doc into x guard so went on top and focused on passing guard. Did well and I did manage to drive and pass his guard and end up in side control until the buzzer.
Taylor: This was a great roll. Taylor played his inverted guard and I was able to catch his back several times. Sometimes between his legs. Sometimes while he was rolling around. Sometimes I just made it up. Pretty much anything I can do to pull him up to expose his back so I can rush in and attack. I can't really recall how I did it but my body was able to improvise and come up with a plan. I think really it was being able to apply weight on his legs and get a grip on his belt or the tail of his gi. Sometimes we'd both end up in odd positions facing away from eachother but I'd control his body and somehow reach for his belt and pull him into a position where he would be forced to turn facing away from me allowing me that one second to attack. Taylor is very squirmy like me and when I take his back he can sometimes roll out into a position and I have been able to maintain his back or allow him to turn so I can mount him. Being able to roll around and adapt to his invertedness also helped. Become like water is making more sense. Rolling around to imitate my opponent is making it easier to catch their backs. Wow this is amazing I really like how fluid the rolls are becoming. I am starting to take a break from all the spider guard and I am beginning to pass, take their backs, and imitate their rolling. BJJ is even more exciting now. Combine this with my speed and it becomes quite an advantage. It seems as if there are few people who are focused on taking the back in class. They have more of a smash you, pass your guard, mount you, and choke you mentality.
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