[Fight_Song]

I've been wanting to make some sort of "So.. what did you do today?" thread here.

Did you learn something you liked and will use?

Did you tap someone worth mentioning (in comparison to your level)?

Did you hit a move you've been working on?


Last night I threw someone who I respect when I compare his grappling to mine. And I got some RNCs on a lancky blue belt.

Tonight I had some good action. I landed a nice triangle tonight because I made a long post about the steps of a triangle in some thread here this morning and i slowed it down enough to follow my own steps. lol

I also pulled off some keylocks that I don't use enough. I landed some nice guard sweeps like elbow roll and the one where you're in closed guard but you turn 90 and hook under their hamstring. I also got a brabo choke in there because of the aoki video i watched this morning. I did some beautiful armbar work on a really big dude. And I scored a ton of overhook + underhook throws from pummel positions. My knee-slide guard passes are good.

My arm-triangle is one of my best moves but i get a few problems when we're in gi because it gets in the way. I still caught some.


Weak points -

Top turtle. The neck is hard to get when they tuck so tight so I usually lace a hook in and screw around. I'm good at getting a hook and a one-on-one arm control and usually I can flatten them out, but often I can't and they're able to stall if they want. I've got all the moves I need, I just need to spend more time here before we're both fatigued. Often they stall and I let them because I'm resting.

Kimuras - I rarely roll with people who have less arm strength than myself so I rarely attempt kimura/keylocks. I was using more bodyweight to press the arm down from mount and getting some success. The BJ no-gi thread actually helped me remember about using body weight.

Guillotine - i use a lot of shooting takedowns and I'm always in a guillotine. I want to work on not running into any more damn guillotines by working more on my posture during my takedowns. I usually defend but on a good guy, giving your neck for a split moment is more than enough to want to correct it. I know what I need to do but I need to do 1 whole week of having people guillotine me and me defending to drill this into my skull.

I faught an epic guillotine battle last night. I almost tapped about 4 times while I was trying to defend. The guy was an ox and I ended up tapping. It was humbling, but not because who I was tapping to. I have no shame in tapping to him because he is legit compared to myself, but it was humbling because I saw the guillotine coming a mile away, knew it was a guillotine while I was in it and how to defend and I still failed. I'm always in a guillotine.

Oh, and I never.. ever.. ever.. guillotine anyone. Ever since wrestling has drilled the "no reaching back" thing into my head, I've never felt comfortable with a guillotine, yet it is my worst enemy.