MMA and me; day 219/220

So last Thursday in gi club, after working our shrimping, shoulder rolls, front and back rolls, we shadow grappled for a bit, then went right into working on jumping guard again. We went right into the flying arm bar and flying triangle this time. For the arm bar, from the 50/50 collar tie up, bring your right shin up int their right arm pit, and swing your left leg over their head in front of their face, using the grip you have on the back of their neck as a point of leverage. Keeping their right arm pinned to your chest, break down their posture like we did on Tuesday, and if you can't flip them over, under hook their nearest leg, and press both your legs to knock them to their back, and then finish the arm bar. For the triangle You have a collar grip with your left hand, and wrist control on their left side with your right hand. As you jump guard, shove their arm in between your legs, and throw your right leg over the back of their neck, and cross your feet behind their back. As soon as you have your feet crossed, under hook their left leg to help cut the angle needed to lock your left leg over your right shin, get your boot on, and finish the triangle!! An excellent class, and then it was on to fighter training....


So once again, more cardio, and I was busting my ass. Ten minutes of walking with a medicine ball held above our heads with arms outstretched, ten minutes of jogging around the room, interspersed with push ups, sit ups, squat jumps, sprawls, sprinting, and some other things I am sure I forgot. Then it was onto bunny hops over the fifteen pads laid out in three columns, then running back to the first one and doing them all over again, for ten minutes. Next we all took a pad, took the mount, and worked on ground and pound while transitioning to all the other positions. Side control, cross body, high judo, low judo, knee ride, V knee ride, sit through butt drop, all while driving nasty ground and pound by bringing our elbows straight to the ceiling while raising our hips up, and then dropping our hips while driving our fists straight down at the same time. We finished with ten minutes of grappling with various partners, and then it was time to head home.

Another beautiful evening at Shoreline MMA, and I can't wait for tomorrow, but I had to get through tonight at Alderwood first. In kickboxing, we did a round of skippies on the wall first, and then a round of muay thai knees from the clinch with a partner holding a kick pad, and then it was time for the fun stuff. So first we worked on a spinning side kick. Where from an orthodox stance, you step across with your lead leg, and then with your rear leg bring the knee up and around to finish the revolution, and drive your lead leg into their side, with all the momentum from the spin adding to the power. It's a somewhat fancy entry into a low outside 9, but the spin adds a lot more power, and it sets up so many other things. For example, a spinning back heel kick. As you step across with your lead leg, instead of spinning through with your rear leg, setting up the low outside 9, flatten out your spin, and extend your rear leg to drive the heel into their thigh. When done properly, and accurately, this can be devastating! Unfortunately, a couple of the younger kids in class were not focusing, and dicking around a bit, so we didn't get to focus on much more technique, and had to do some push ups because they were not listening. We did one more round of alternating the spinning side kick, and spinning back heel, and then finished up with our ab work, and it was on to grappling.

I don't mean to be lazy, but I'm really tired, and everything we did tonight in gi club, was everything we did last Thursday in gi club, which is a paragraph or two above all this that I'm currently writing. Anyways, I had a great day in class, and I can't wait for tomorrow!