MMA and me; day 117

Boxing and the basics. We kicked things off by working the simple 1-2. I was working with Jathan, and he made sure I kept my lead hand up, and forced me to work on circling off after the combo. Next we added the hook, to make it a 1-2-3. I was getting better at keeping my hand up, but I was having trouble circling off, and I was also looping my hook a little bit. I need to keep my elbows in more on the 3. We then switched to our counter, the 2-3-2, and this is where I have a lot of trouble. I'm not sitting down enough on my initial 2, and it affects my balance on my 3, which in turn prevents me from turning in and finishing the last 2 properly. Troy and Jay helped me be aware of this, and correct it as well. We finished with a combination of everything we worked on; 1-2-slip-2-3-2. I was getting better at smoothing things out eventually, and thanks to Jay pushing the pace, and Troy giving me pointers and making sure I was relaxing and breathing, I felt much better towards the end of class. Then we finished with upper body work outs, more specifically partner push ups. They suck, and that's it. It was jiu jitsu time.

We went through our normal stretching drills, and then got into shoulder rolls, and granby rolls. From there, we worked partner shoulder roll drills where a standing partner would attempt a hook pass by going elbow deep and as they tried to throw your leg over your head, you roll across your shoulders into a guard position with your right leg on their hip, and your left leg behind their right leg. You then push on their hip, pull with your other leg, and pull their near ankle with your hand, and trip them to the ground. You then swim your bottom side hand around their leg to a C block and get to side control. We then worked this drill by ourselves against the wall, going from being up on our shoulders and backs to the wall, to facing the wall by rolling across our shoulders, to being back to the original position back across the shoulders. Next was the run and roll drill, ending in the triangle choke, which it is very important to swivel all the way across to 3 o'clock or 9 o'clock so you're cutting the angle properly and getting the choke tight. We next went to the arm bar-triangle-omoplata flow, and finished with a free flow of the triangle-reverse triangle-kimura-straight arm bar-cutting arm bar-reverse triangle-triangle-arm bar in various combinations.

Thanks to Jay, Coach Troy, Coach Wise, and Speedy for helping me out, you guys are great!