MMA and me; day 260

So I have now been back in the gym for a couple weeks since my extended hiatus, but not really. My wrist has been pretty dang sore for almost two weeks, and it is somewhat hampering my ability to train. So last night, and hopefully only tomorrow, I will stick with jiu jitsu drills, and light rolling. We worked a lot of dexterity drills, bridging, rolls, crawls, hip bumps, crab walks, bear crawls, and we finished with a couple of sweeps from bottom side control. The key to both of these sweeps/sit ups, is swiveling your hips out from under you, and behind you while keeping your top arm straight.

First, from bottom side control, turn into your opponent, pushing into their opposite side shoulder with your top side arm, and KEEPING IT STRAIGHT. Post up on your other elbow, making sure it is directly behind you as you do, and as you sit up on the side of your hip, swing your legs around behind you, pushing their shoulder down as you come up on top of them in side control. This is a very useful escape/sweep, and I had been using a rough version of this for a while apparently. Another option is to turn away from them, bridge to get up on your hip, and like before, push into their opposite shoulder with your top side arm, again keeping it straight, and posting on your other arm directly behind you. In one motion, swim your legs underneath yourself to behind you while pushing into the shoulder, arm straight, and finish in side control.

A lot of people think this is all about strength, but it's not. With proper positioning, and using your core strength, you can do this to just about anybody, which is one of the many things I LOVE about jiu jitsu! Really looking forward to getting back to 100%, but I'm just going to take it one step at a time.