We have been drilling a lot of half guard lately. And while I might normally like going for a sweep via the pummel or even an under hooked leg, I have found that I’m getting the sweep almost 100% of the time via deep half guard. There have been a couple of exceptions where I [...]
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Lots and lots of high guard lately
We’ve been training a lot of high guard in the advanced class it seems. And I think it’s definitely paying off for me. Just to clarify, since every school system seems to call moves by different names, I’m talking about the transition from regular closed guard when you move to the side and start to [...]
Conserving energy
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with one of the guys at our dojo about the fact that I never see him breathing hard, no matter how hard he might be going. So I asked him what he did for cardio. As it turns out, he really doesn’t do anything for cardio other [...]
Pushing past it all
Training has been such a tough thing lately. It’s been almost 10 weeks since I tore my MCL in my left knee. And since that time, I’ve suffered other injuries and sickness, and busyness, and … It has simply been one thing after another. Well, on Thursday I tried to train and it really seemed [...]
Butterfly/half guard sweep
The other night, we were working on some different sweeps from the bottom of butterfly guard using an arm drag. Now, I titled this as a butterfly/half-guard sweep. And the reason for that is that there is a transition that resembles half guard, which got me thinking that I could also execute the move from [...]
