MMA and me; day 223

Got to Gi Club late because of work *grumble grumble*, but hopped right into stretching and rolling. The whole class we worked on submission defense. Regan and I would apply a sub, and Coach would tell us the proper defense. Since we went over so many, I'll do the cliff notes version

arm bar from bottom side control - clasp your hands together, shrimp your hips out and roll into them, pulling your arm free to drop the defending elbow to the mat.

triangle from inside guard - with arm on the outside, press down on their bicep with your hand, and with the arm on the inside, frame up on their hip to create a wedge, and drop the wedge elbow to the mat and turn away from it.

omoplata - if they don't cover your back, roll through, if they do cover your back, posture up, but make sure to pull back with urgency!

standing guillotine - grab the choking hand with the same side hand, and reach the other under their crotch, pick them up and drop them on their head. Make sure to do this so you land on the opposite side of their choking arm, and not the same, or you will be unconscious...

rear naked choke - shrug your shoulders up, and fight to get one of their hooks off, preferably with one of your own feet, and slide your hips to the mat while turning into them.

kimura - Keep your back as flat as you can, and bridge to create space so you can slide your other hand through and grasp your hands together. You then want to turn in to your opponent, and get a knee in between you to reclaim guard. If you can't clasp your hands, grab a hunk of gi, or your own shorts. You can grab their gi, but in no gi, you can only grab your own shorts.

keylock - raise your arm above your head, clasp your hands together, and straighten them out, as you turn into your opponent

arm triangle - answer the phone, and then rub your own nose off trying to turn into them and pop your head and arm free.

howdy - bridge and push off of their hip with your trapped arm, and slide it under them to the other side of their body.

D'Arce - arch your back and turn to all fours. If you do give up your back, scramble to get out of there, run and roll, turn to reclaim guard, SOMETHING!!

anaconda - umm, all I really remember Coach saying, is DO NOT GET STUCK HERE!!! Seriously, once this is in, it's tough to get out. It's like a D'Arce, but applied much tighter, so arching will help, as will bridging, but don't get here.

arm bar from in the guard - clasp your hands together, stack over them, and drive the point of your elbow into their chest, and just hang out there. As soon as you go to pull your arm out, do it QUICKLY, and without hesitation, or you will get hurt.

peruvian necktie - with your outside hand, make a C, and push off their top side leg, quickly passing with an inside knee pass

knee bar - shrimp out while pushing on the butt to create space, stick the blade of your top side foot in their crack, belly down and push hard to escape and turn to face them

heel hook - lean forward and under hook their arm that is over the top of your foot, and lean forward

toe hold - use your other foot to push their hands apart, and pull your foot free

achilles lock - boot on, straighten your leg, and pass over their guard

I know that's not everything we went over, but I am very much hoping this is something we go over more in the future, and I can fill in the many, MANY gaps I have. It was then time to move on to fighter training.

Instead of medicine balls, we worked with resistance bands, hooray!! We ran laps, did push ups, worked the jab, worked the jab, did punch ups, worked the jab some more, did more push ups, ran some more, did bear crawls (oy!), and then sparred for the last half hour. I was tired, I had a headache, but I didn't stop. I got pummeled, but I kept coming back for more. There's an off chance that I might actually be Solomon Grundy...... Great class, I LOVE MY TEAMMATES!!!