MMA and me; day 234

On Wednesday, we did some more work on defending arm triangles, and also drilling the counter to the defense of arm triangles. So we covered the same things from Monday, answering the phone, and then the counters to those, We also worked on going a step further than answering the phone. As you bring your hand to the side of your head, turn hard into your opponent, driving your face past your own arm, (coach calls this breaking your own nose) and pushing your arm past their head to the mat. From here you can lock up an arm triangle of your own and roll hard in the other direction to roll them over your body and end in a position to finish the submission. We also drilled the opening to the arm triangle from mount. Pushing the arm across, as you swim your other arm underneath it to the mat right next to their head. Back and forth on each side, making sure to get your elbow in tight against the neck, and pushing their arm across their chest and holding it in place with your own chest and dropping your head to the mat. It also makes it easier to help hold their arm in place if you keep your C block on the elbow while dropping your chest on it, and not pulling it out until your head is on the mat. We finished with a solid 15+ minutes of grappling, and called it a night.