MMA and me; day 126

Another day of drilling a tough combo in boxing, and I loved it! I went back and forth between helping a couple of new guys get comfortable with the jab and the straight, while focusing on the basics like keeping your hands up, chin down, and simple footwork, and also drilling the combo. We switched it up a bit, but not too much. We started with the straight, hook, straight, into the roll counter, catch counter, body catch, body catch, rear uppercut, lead uppercut, hook, straight. To that we added the jab slip stop, straight slip stop, roll straight hook, roll, hook straight. Capped off with the catch 4, this is what it looks like;
2-3-2-roll-2-3-2-catch-2-3-2-catch body 4-catch body 3-6-5-3-2-slip stop 1-slip stop 2-roll-2-3-roll-3-2-catch 4 series. We ended with flutter kicks, over unders, and planks. A great day of drills, and welcome to the new guys Mike and Harley! Thanks to Coach Troy for your help, I'm slowly getting better at keeping my chin down, and that 5-3 portion of the combo feels way smoother now.

Jiu jitsu was really fun. After our stretching and warm up drills, we went back into working from the S-mount. We repped the arm bar drill several times, and I keep finding out new things about the troubles I'm having with arm bars. From the mount, you lock your arms up and push down on one of their elbows, which brings up their other elbow allowing you to C-block it across their chest, and hold it in place with your weight. As you slide your knee on that side up just past their head, and straighten out your other leg, you get to S-mount, sitting heavy on your hamstring on their chest. From here, turn towards their head and smoothly turn back while simultaneously under hooking their near arm with your top side arm, and reaching under their near leg with your other arm, and sliding off their chest so you're sitting on the mat. As you lean back to finish the arm bar, if they fight it, sit up and pull your hand out from under their leg, bring it up and push it under their far arm, making sure to stay bunched up, and roll to your other side. At this point it's a matter of arching your back and extending your hips to break the grip and get the tap.

We also worked on going from a high judo, to a switched stance where all you do is switch your leg placement, but make sure to keep your hips really heavy. It feels a lot like a hybrid between high judo and side control. From here, much like the previous drill, you briefly twist away, then smoothly bring your top side leg over their head, getting your heel right in the crook between their shoulder and neck, and swimming your top side arm under their near arm as you bring it around. From here, if you're wearing a gi, you can grab your lapel with the arm trapping theirs, and twist your body so you're belly down, extending your topside leg slightly with pops their head off the ground. At this point all you need to do is make sure their thumb is pointed to the ceiling, arch your back, and extend the leg under their head. This will most likely elicit a tap, but if not, you can figure four their head and work a nasty neck crank, it does not feel good! Thank you Coach Wise for your patience and faith in me. I truly appreciate it.