MMA and me; day 216

So yesterday I was only able to go to grappling, but I put a good amount of work. After our shrimping drills, we worked on our rolls, and focused on shrimping on your backside. When on your butt, keep your feet together, moving them forward or backward in unison. Separating your legs is a good way to have your guard passed, so keep the feet together, and flare your knees out to ride up on your hip bone, which makes it much easier to spin, and prevent them from circling around you, and taking your back.

We next began working on entries to the 50/50 guard, and also the X guard. From being on your back with your opponent standing over you, slide your hips forward, and get your butterfly hooks in. Straighten your right leg, and slip that foot to the front side of their right leg, keeping both of your boots on, pinched tightly around their leg. Swiveling on your hips, bring your right arm under and around their left leg, to grab behind your head, pinning their leg between your head and shoulder. Extend your legs to stretch them out, and you can get an entry to the 50/50. You can use your hand that is propped up behind you to reach over and cup their kneecap, and as you stretch them out peel their leg backwards as they fall to their butt. From there, it is a simple action to pull their right leg in tight between your legs, scoot your hips in, and slide the 50/50 guard around their right leg. Our next drill was transitioning around the legs, keeping the hooks in tight and spring loaded, , and going from front butterfly guard, to X guard, to taking the back, to X guard on the other side, back to front butterfly guard. As long as you keep your boots on, and spring loaded into their knees, it makes things very difficult for them.

Lastly, we worked a sweep from the butterfly hooks. Pull your left leg free, and get the blade of the foot just above their belt line. Lay your right leg flat, and cup the outside of their left heel with your right hand. Bring your right leg as far into their left leg as you can, and in one motion, sweep it towards the right leg, while pulling with your hand on the heel, and pushing with your left foot, to launch them down. From here, slide your right leg under their left leg, and you can transition to 50/50 guard. Super slick!! Okay, I'm tired from today's classes, but more on that tomorrow. Sweet work in grappling, WHEEEE!!!!! I'm a nerd.