MMA and me; day 153

Monday was a fun little day. Kickboxing was a lot of cardio. Started out with ten minutes of alternating between ten push ups, and ten burpies. Next came three rounds of skippies for three minutes each, then we moved on to Muay Thai drills. First the right knee, getting our partner in the Thai plum, pushing away the head ans then pulling in and throwing the knee. Next was the left knee, thrown from switch stance. As you push their head away, you switch legs, then pull the head in as you throw the left knee. We finished with three minutes of partner sit ups, and moved on to grappling.

We worked on side control and the howdy. From side control, get a far side under hook, and straighten out your leg nearest to their hips, and slide to high judo, keeping that leg pinned up against the side of their body, and staying up on the ball of your other foot. From here there are a couple ways to get the arm triangle. First, if they push away on your shoulder, use your free hand to push that arm across their chest, and pull your under hook out to reach that arm under their head, trapping their arm with your chest, and bringing your knee into their hip, as you straighten out your other leg. Chop your arm under their head to get it through as far as you can, and grab your other bicep. With your other hand, place it on their face, and maintaining chest pressure, squeeze for the tap. The next way to get them to extend their arm, was by bringing your outside leg from high judo over their head, forcing them to push your leg away, which enables you to trap that arm across their chest, and go through the steps to get to the arm triangle again. Now Vern wanted to make sure I covered this last bit, so only if you promise to keep it close to the vest, because it's high level ninja stuff. When you have your chest pressure trapping their arm across their neck and chest, pinch their ear by folding the lobe and cartilage four times into itself, and twist for the figure four earlock. Shhhhhhhhh!