MMA and me; day 270

We were back at the arm bar from S mount, and we added a LOT of new wrinkles to it. Starting from mount, you start pressing on their arms, trying to get resistance, which will help push one of their arms across their chest to move up to the S mount. Release the pressure on their right arm, and their pushing back into it will pop their arm up, and by cupping behind the elbow of the right arm, you can shove it all the way across their chest. Now you have to utilize some pressure to keep the arm in place, and the easiest way to do this is to slide your knees up to a high mount, and drop your head to a point on the mat, high above and to right side of their body (your left), using your chest to pin their arm in place. Keeping your chest pressure on, slide your left knee up to a few inches past the top of their head, and flick your left foot out, just a bit, This will help provide stability to straighten out your right leg, for the S mount position, and give you one of your posts to prevent getting bumped off, or swept. Using your left arm, secure an elbow pit deep over hook from the top side (making sure to sit VERY heavy on your right leg across their chest) and lean over just a bit forward and to the right, to allow your left leg to swing around and over their head, as you fall back into the arm bar.

As you fall back, under hook the near side knee (their right) with your right hand, to take away one of their posts, and prevent them from using it to kick free and turn over. One way to hold them down, but still keep pressure on their body, is to relieve your left leg from over their head, and prop it up under the back of their neck with your foot on the mat, like a kickstand. Combining this with a straight press of your right leg will hold them in place, and allow you to continue to work on the arm bar, which you can revert to whenever you want by swinging your left leg back over their head and leaning back. If their hands are clasped, and you cannot break the grip, sit up, and dig your right arm elbow pit deep by digging your wrist bone into their hands, and then driving them towards your opponents head. While doing this, also drop your head to your left, twisting their arm upwards, almost like a key lock. If you still cannot break their grip, dig the heel of your left arm into their far side elbow pit, and kick until their grip pops open. Once it does, X the top of your feet around their far side arm, and even if they do get their hands back together, all it takes is a small series of kicks to pop them back open. One of my favorite things to do from here, is to relieve the left leg from the top of their head after sliding the right leg across their face. This usually gets them to try and sit up, which lets you continue to slide the right leg around their neck into a triangle choke.

We went a little further into the S mount, expanding it into the Z mount, where you curl your right leg under their far side arm, and get to work for all sorts of neck cranks and top side triangles. So from S mount, bring your right heel in tight to their body, while keeping your left knee in tight to their head. Reach your left arm under the crown of their head and grab your shin, or the inside of their arm pit, and from there it's a simple triceps extension to get the neck crank. Now if they try to under hook your right leg with your far side arm, scoop their head up and slide your right foot underneath it, pushing the head all the way into the pit of your knee. Now, all you have to do is roll over your right shoulder, and lock up the triangle. In fact, you can lean forward and secure the triangle from the top side, and then all you have to do is sit back and wait for the tap. If they happen to be particularly tough, you can attack their right arm with arm bars or kimuras as well, good fun!!! Can't wait to get back into the gym this week!!!