MMA and me; day 180

Yesterday was another day of gi jiu jitsu, and it was fun, and we expanded on more of the things we covered on Tuesday. We started with our shrimping drills, then worked on back and front rolls, and then our shoulder rolls. From there we went to the counter of the counter where your opponent trips you to your butt when you stand up in their guard. From your back, lift their legs up, and arch your hips to further lift their feet off the ground, preventing them from advancing position. Shrimp out your hips to the side, pinching your knees around their legs, and sliding their outside leg over their inside leg. From here, swim your outside arm over their top leg, and under their bottom leg to grab your inside arm in a Gable grip. Pinching your knees together, and using your inside arm on their top leg for leverage, compress their legs together, keeping the grip in tight against your body, until they tap. This is called Breaking the Sticks. From here, you can transition to a toe hold by releasing the Gable grip, sliding your top hand over their free foot, and grabbing that wrist with your other hand, then dropping your head to your hands, and turning your shoulders in an attempt to put their big toe in their butt, until they tap. We worked on another entry to Breaking the Sticks from top side control. Over hook their legs with the arm on that side, and grab the inside of your own leg on the same side as that arm. In one motion, lift their legs and drive that knee under their legs to your foot being flat on the ground, and then reach back to slide their outside leg over the inside leg, and lace your arms over and under like the entry to this position from the previous set. They may try to go limp to avoid the submission, but it leaves their foot exposed to a toe hold, or you can slide the knee under them back to the ground, bring the other knee up around their legs and fall to your side to either put more pressure on the toe hold, or transition to a knee bar by sliding your top side leg in between their legs, pinching your knees around their thigh, keeping your knees into your chest, cupping the heel, and arching your back for the tap. Lastly, we worked on a few different entries to the knee bar from half guard. First, posture up, and step over pass, ending up sitting on their belly, and under hook the leg between your knees, pinch your knees around their thigh, roll to the near side of their body, keeping your butt in tight to their belly, slide your hands up to cup the heel, and arch your back until they tap. The second entry is if they block the step over pass with their arms. As they block it, slide the knee across their belly instead, and go through the same checklist for the knee bar. On this one be careful, because sliding the knee across leaves your foot exposed on their waist, and vulnerable to a toe hold, so use this entry with caution. The last entry, is if they expect you to step over pass. Pass with a back spin to sit on their belly, under hook the knee, pinch the thighs and then roll across their body, keeping the knees in tight, sliding up your hands to the heel, and arching for the tap. If you can't get the tap, swim your outside hand around the foot, trapping it under your arm pit, and arch for a really nasty knee bar. A fantastic day of classes, and I was walking funny afterward, but it was totally worth it.