MMA and me; day 208

Another day of leg locks in the books, and boy are my knees sore! We didn't really work on all that much new stuff, but we did cover a lot of new entries to submissions that we already knew. Coach Aric likes to mention that while a lot of people brag that they know 30+ different arm bars, he simply replies that he knows only one, but he knows 30+ entries to the arm bar. In leg locks, there are not that many total submissions, but there are a ton of ways to approach them. From standing over a downed opponent, on your back with your opponent standing, from half guard, from low judo, from back mount, etc.. We also continued to fine tune the chains of submission transitions, or lock flows. We began by stretching out, and then hopped right into a multitude of knee bars, and how to transition to muscle locks when the knee bar is defended. If they triangle their legs, throw your outside leg over their top side leg, and then triangle your legs with your wrist in their knee pit that is between your own legs. Bring your heel in towards your butt and pull your wrist up until they tap. Another good entry to a knee bar, is the buck mount from low judo. Hop to sit on their belly, pinch their thigh between your legs, and roll across their body to get into primo knee bar position. From sitting on their belly, you can initiate the muscle lock without them defending the knee bar, just by wrapping your inside leg over the top of the shin you have between your legs (made easier by leaning forward, and scooting your hips over theirs) triangling your legs, and leaning back, pulling up on your wrist in their knee pit. These are just a few of the plethora of transitions and entries into the world of leg locks, and I'm looking forward to working on these for quite some time!