MMA and me; day 158

I grappled...pretty much all two and a half hours I was at the gym. Rolled with Coach Wise for an hour or so. Worked on not turning my back to an opponent, staying calm, and breathing, and not reaching. It was a pretty damned good sweat, and I was very loose when jiu jitsu class started. First we stretched, and worked our rolls. Shrimping drills, front and back, side rolls, shoulder rolls. Lastly we worked on some take downs. First was a double leg to outside trip. Dropping to your lead knee, shoot both arms around the thighs, and swing your outside leg around and behind their feet to trip them down as you drive forward. Make sure to clear your legs and get to side control with a C block so you don't end up in their half guard. Next was a single leg "running the pipe". Turning to the outside as you shoot in, grab the single leg, and tuck your ear against their belly button. Pick up the leg and pin it between your thighs. Keeping your inside leg stationary, pivot on it while pushing against their core with your head until they fall to the mat, again making sure to clear their legs as you follow them to the mat and keep their legs away with a C block. We worked on a couple of single leg variations next. First was the step across trip. As you isolate the leg, reach to under hook with the outside arm. Reach around their waist with your inside arm, and lift the leg up high as you step across their body with the inside leg. Drive into them forward over your leg with your arm, tripping them to the mat, and then spinning away from them to pass the guard and end in side control, of course establishing the C block to prevent them from reclaiming guard. The other variation, was a leg sweep from the same double under hook of the leg position. Wrap your near arm around their back this time, and while lifting them, sweep their leg our from underneath them, swing their body out and plant their back on the mat, landing in side control and establishing the C block. Lastly, we worked a snap guillotine from the Thai clinch, to snap down, to taking back mount. From the Thai clinch, push into them, and as they push back, pull down on the head, pulling it into a guillotine. Now from there, if you didn't feel you had the guillotine, or wanted something more secure, you could sprawl out, and then from your knees, pull the choke out to push their head to the mat, leaving you free to take their back.