In all my excitedness about getting ready for my tournament, I forgot to post the last two days at the gym! Whoops. Ah well, it just means it's another double dose Monday. So at AMMA on Wednesday, we continued to work on the triangle, and introduced a new entry; from back mount. So with both hooks in, and a seat belt grip (for this I'll be describing it from left over/right under seat belt) , you can either grab their left wrist with your right, and pummel your left hand under their left arm pit to grab the same wrist for a paddle grip, OR you can reach across their neck with the left hand and grab their right shoulder, while really digging your right under hook in and hoisting their right arm up. From here, you want to do your best to scoot your hips around to their right side, while maintaining the paddle grip, or the cross grip/under hook. You don't just want to scoot your hips around, it is also important to get your hips out wide from their body, just a bit. From here, you hoist their right arm straight up, relieve your left hook, and snake your right leg straight up across their chest, and over their left shoulder, throwing your left leg over their right (BOOT ON!). Here it gets a little different from a traditional triangle. You can still pinch the knees to assist for the finish, but pulling the head will not help. In fact, pulling the head relieves pressure. So what you want to do, is push their head sideways, which pinches their carotid artery into the shin of your right leg, and will help get the tap.
After drilling the triangle, I rolled with Corby for a bit, and man, that is one tough mofo. He got me out of my zone, and off my game. It's very important to recognize when your opponent is trying to force a pace, or style, and not falling into it. After relaxing a bit, and talking with Coach Wise, I saw the mistakes I was making, and adjusted accordingly. Thank you Coach, Corby, and Danny for helping out, I know it had an impact.
Thursday we revisited all of the triangles we had covered this week. From guard peacocking the wrists, and shoving a hand in between the legs, from mount, and from back mount. We drilled these one at a time methodically, and then rapid fire, one after another.We spent a little more time on the triangle from back mount, since that was new to most of us, but just kept focused on the basics of the triangle. Don't go for the perfect triangle right away, cross your feet in an X first, relieve a leg to push off of a hip and create an angle, go through your steps of under hooks (arm, leg body), pull down on the head if necessary, left your hips. I am still trying to get my triangle better, and with improved flexibility, and attention to detail, it will get there.
Fighters training was non stop grappling, going hard, and continuously. For an hour plus, I rolled with just about every body in the gym, and at the very end, was choked unconscious by Coach. It was on so quick, and pinching both carotids so tightly, that I didn't even have time to tap. Thankfully, it wasn't for very long, and it's something that isn't too scary. Very discombobulating though. Sorry for scaring you Coach, I will be better about tapping sooner!
In other news, the Lockflow Submission Challenge was hosted by our gym, and we had a number of standouts. Brent and Alvin made it to the finals and faced off against each other. Brent snagged the submission win in a great match. Hannah simply dominated her division for the first place finish. Corby put on an amazing performance and took second. Jayce, Jackson, Elijah, and Kirk all had solid days, and though they didn't take home medals, had very impressive showings. Batman had the most ridiculous day. Had a draw, then a loss, then engaged in a 42 minute endurance match before finally snagging the win to get to the finals, then got the win and first place! Seth had a heck of a day. Getting six subs in his first two matches, and losing a very close match to a man with a number of amateur fights and one pro fight under his belt. He was a little ticked, but we all know he's the man! Btw, Seth is fighting this Saturday, so if you want to see the coming out of a very impressive heavyweight fighter, let me know, he's a beast! Oh yeah, I won my division! Two matches, four subs, under four minutes. I'm setting my sights on Arlington next, so a short break, and then it's eyes on the prize!
SO proud of my teammates and my gym. We had a very strong showing, and we're only going to get better.
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