MMA and me; day 237

We continued our journey into the art of the triangle yesterday, and we started off by revisiting the basic tenets of the submission. Most importantly, once you get a leg up and over their shoulder, push off their hip with your other leg to help cut an angle so you can get that leg straight across the back of their neck, get your boot on of the leg across the back of their neck, throw your other leg over the ankle of the "boot on leg" (keep the boot on!) and then from there go through the sequence of under hooks until you get the tap, near arm, near leg, S grip under the body.

We moved on to working on the triangle from mount, and I really liked this one. Our first option had us getting the triangle from our guard, and if they chose to defend that by stacking you up on your shoulders, you can roll them over into a mounted triangle. The other entry was from mount, and you press both hands on one of their arms, moving back and forth in an effort to separate them. As you break their grip, pin (we'll go with the left here) their left arm to the mat, and quickly bring your right leg up to an S mount type position. The beauty of this position, is that even if they do not reach under the left leg and give you the mounted triangle, they will usually push on your hips, giving you an arm bar! If they reach under the S mount leg, slide your left knee up to their arm pit, reach under their head with your left arm and pull it up, as you flick your right leg underneath their head. From here, depending on your flexibility, you can either roll over your right shoulder into a traditional triangle (go through that checklist!) or bring your left leg around over the ankle of the right leg, keeping the boot on with the left foot, and then sit back and twist your hips, keeping that right knee on the ground, much like the elbow in an arm triangle, until they tap. Great class, thanks to Danny and Riley for all your help with the mounted triangle!

In fighters training, I had to sit out for a bit due to some muscle cramps. Side note, I need to be better about replenishing my body after hot yoga. Lots of water is not enough!! We started with the medicine balls above our heads for five minutes, went into some jogging and then knee push ups over the medicine balls, sprawl drills on the balls, and then a long sequence of ground and pound on the kick shields. 1-2 combos, donkey kong punches, Sakuraba chops, hammer fists, transitions, it was great. We finished with a good long grappling session, and called it a night. Wonderful day at the gym, and I also had day 2 of hot yoga early in the morning! I'M LOVING IT!!!