A few months back, we began drilling deep half guard in the advanced class and it was beyond awkward for me– heck, for most of us. But this past Thursday, something changed and I found myself using it several times during training, and with success. The past 8 weeks have been pretty rough on me, [...]
Author Archive > Mike
Schmuckles…
So, we’re driving to dinner last night and my daughter was asking a question. Couldn’t figure out what she was asking. We were headed to dinner and it sounded like she was wanting to have dinner elsewhere. Well, she was saying she wanted to see “Dinner with the Schmuckles”. She meant to say “Dinner for [...]
Cleaning up my arm bar escapes
I know, I know, I know… I shouldn’t do this, but I do. I like to bait people with my arm bar escape from side or technical mount. I’ll turn away from my opponent, onto my side so that they can get the arm bar. But rather than let them sink it in, I immediately [...]
Temporarily sidelined, but ready to go
So it’s been a while since my last update. Life has just been so hectic lately, which is a very good thing– just hectic. As a result of this, I decided to hold off competing on the 24th. I just didn’t feel like I could handle one more thing on my plate. And truth be [...]
Guillotine from side control
I should have written this one down right after class. The details are quite fuzzy right now as I’m trying to recall the steps leading up to the choke. I am guessing that the setup for this choke is gonna come from when we have our opponent in side control and he executes a bridge [...]
