Today's learnings

So I've started up Jujitsu again and boy did I get rolled today. I'm staring at all the marks on my neck (from being choked out all day) as I type. The good thing about getting your butt kicked is that you learn quite a bit.

Alternate way break the full-guard

1. Grab the belt or place hands on the pelvis. No matter what, you have to have apply downwards pressure to the waist. 
2. Posture up on your knees while applying downwards pressure on your opponent's pelvic area. 
3. Shift your knee underneath your opponent's butt to create leverage.
4. Posture upwards to break the guard.
5. Move and pin the leg of your opponent with the knee you used to create leverage.
6. Swing your other leg around and enter side control.

Arm bar from full guard

1. Grab the sleeve of your opponent with one hand and pull towards your chest.
2. Grab the upper part of the same sleeve with your other arm to control the arm.
3. Place foot on pelvis on the opposite side of the controlled arm.
4. Push outwards while sliding your back out the opposite side. This should transition into the first part of the arm bar.
5. Slide your other leg over to close the arm bar.
6. Straighten your back.

Tips

• Don't try to choke from the underneath the full mount. You are begging to get arm barred. 
• Don't grab your foot when closing the triangle choke. Grab the shin. 

Muay Thai Combos

< RIGHT CROSS
< LEFT HOOK
< RIGHT CROSS
< LEFT BODY SHOT/UPPERCUT
< RIGHT CROSS

< LEFT JAB
< LEFT ELBOW
< RIGHT ELBOW
< SPINNING RIGHT ELBOW
< SWITCH STANCE
< LEFT KNEE X2
< LEFT CLINCH
< RIGHT CLINCH
< STEP OUT
< RIGHT KNEE X2
< PUSH OFF
< RIGHT KICK X2

Front Leg Kick Catch & Coutner

> OPPONENT ATTACKS WITH FRONT / PUSH KICK
< CATCH LEG
> RIGHT STEP BACK ( OPPONENT IS NOW FALLING FORWARD)
> RIGHT ELBOW

Counter Jab

I was watching the Anderson Silva - Okami fight and so Anderson drop Okami with a jab. It was incredible. So I was training and dodging punches by leaning back and then immediately countering with a jab. I realized that it was really powerful because the body is coiled back like a snake about to strike. So the jab comes out with a lot of power.

> OPPONENT ATTACKS
> LEAN BACK TO AVOID PUNCH (SEE OPPENING)
> LAUNCH FORWARD WITH JAB

The S Mount

Although I've been OK at betting to the full mount, I'm not having a lot of success holding my position when I go for a submission. So I learned a new progression called the S-Mount that takes away even more options from the full mount. Here are the details.

MUAY THAI COMBOS

WORKING ON SOME MUAY THAI COMBOS SO I WANTED TO KEEP TRACK OF THEM

< LEFT JAB
< RIGHT CROSS
< SWITCH STEP
< LEFT KNEE X2
---> progression
< SWTICH STEP
< RIGHT ROUNDHOUSE X2


> OPPONENT RIGHT CROSS
< SLIP LEFT
< LEFT HOOK
< RIGHT CROSS TO BODY
< RIGHT CHOP KICK

Punching Combos

I was working on a bunch of new punch combos so I wanted to write them down so I wouldn't forget.

> OPPONENT BODY SHOT TO RIGHT SIDE
< RIGHT UPPERCUT / BODY SHOT
< LEFT HOOK
< RIGHT CROSS

> OPPONENT BODY SHOT TO LEFT SIDE
< LEFT UPPERCUT / BODY SHOT
< LEFT HOOK
< RIGHT CROSS

> OPPONENT RIGHT CROSS
< SIDE STEP TO LEFT
< LEFT HOOK
< RIGHT CROSS
< LEFT HOOK