Cassio Werneck BJJ - Sacramento CA - Cassio Werneck
Interesting class today. The format normally is Cassio teaches a two or three related techniques and we drill them. The techniques are usually very distinct, like an arm bar from closed guard, step one, step two, step three, etc. Today was slightly different.
Cassio discussed standing in closed guard. Rather than show a few multi step techniques he broke down the situation itself. That maintaining your posture is key. that it canot be enough to counter what your opponent is doing, but rather use every grip break, every defensive move as an opportunity to improve your position BEYOND being in someones closed guard.
Your opponent gets a deep collar grip, you maintain your posture, put both hands on their wrist push down hard and clear the grip. Then use it as an opportunity to improve your position.
Your opponent gets the grip and initiates the cross collar choke. reach over their arms and grab their lapels. Using which ever arm they have on top you stand up and drive your fist and their collar across their throat walking to that same side. You won't likely get a tap here, but you will likely get them to pop open. Just make sure you get your arm out.
Finally an interesting answer to getting your amr caught across your body. You punch in hard with your knee on the same side as your trapped arm. this freezes their hips. Now pull your arm out.
Rolled:
rolled three 5 or 6? min rounds
Jaime, rest, Brian, Michael, rest
Jaime was really defending hte pass well, I kept getting close but just as I was about to get around he pushed me off and replaced. Not cool :D. Eventually I ended up in his closed guard and, as usual, he pulled his very effective olaplata. I managed to get out but ended up getting caught by an a reverse bar to arm bar. It was nice.
Brian was all over me as well. I left my arm a dangling and he went for a very well done arm bar from side control.
Michael is a younger kid he was really getting after me. He kept leaving his elbows out so I kept reminding him not too. I know I talk more than most while rolling with the lower belts, I just really remember feeling lost back then.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Friday, March 27, 2009
2009-03-27 Wed PM BJJ Class
Cassio Werneck BJJ - Sacramento CA - Cassio Werneck
I think this fatherhood thing is going to put a cramp in my bjj study for a bit. Guess it's a good thing I'm not in a hurry.
So after covering some solid closed guard work last week it's guard breaking / passing this week. Two different versions of how to stand up in closed guard were covered. One of the key things were the grips. Not getting to high with your hands, Keeping a good base, if you reach back to push the knee down doing it after switching your far hand to the belt so you don't get caught.
Rolled:
rolled four 5 or 6? min rounds
Nick, Mark, Rest, Dan, Rest, Nick
It was good rolling with Nick. He was very active, you could tell he had wrestled. He was very open to learning the basic stuff I tried to throw his way (keeping your arms in, posture, things like that)
Rolling with Mark was interesting. I nearly got that De la Riva sweep I've been working on, everything but finishing on top. After that it was all me trying to get an attack in from closed guard. I threatened a few times but his defense held. Also tried recording the workout for the first time. Interesting watching my roll after the fact.
Watching film of Dan cutting therough my open guard is interesting, unless you blink cuzz then you'll miss hte pass. I gotta figure out something for that.
Finally Nck was the only guy that wanted to roll again (my gi was clean, I swear!)
Guard Stand ups (I need to edit this down)
I think this fatherhood thing is going to put a cramp in my bjj study for a bit. Guess it's a good thing I'm not in a hurry.
So after covering some solid closed guard work last week it's guard breaking / passing this week. Two different versions of how to stand up in closed guard were covered. One of the key things were the grips. Not getting to high with your hands, Keeping a good base, if you reach back to push the knee down doing it after switching your far hand to the belt so you don't get caught.
Rolled:
rolled four 5 or 6? min rounds
Nick, Mark, Rest, Dan, Rest, Nick
It was good rolling with Nick. He was very active, you could tell he had wrestled. He was very open to learning the basic stuff I tried to throw his way (keeping your arms in, posture, things like that)
Rolling with Mark was interesting. I nearly got that De la Riva sweep I've been working on, everything but finishing on top. After that it was all me trying to get an attack in from closed guard. I threatened a few times but his defense held. Also tried recording the workout for the first time. Interesting watching my roll after the fact.
Watching film of Dan cutting therough my open guard is interesting, unless you blink cuzz then you'll miss hte pass. I gotta figure out something for that.
Finally Nck was the only guy that wanted to roll again (my gi was clean, I swear!)
Guard Stand ups (I need to edit this down)
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
2009-03-18 Wed PM BJJ Class
Cassio Werneck BJJ - Sacramento CA - Cassio Werneck
Wow, what a few weeks it's been. We had our first baby a few weeks ago. The experience was pretty amazing. Needless to say I did not get a lot of training in for a few weeks, two to be precise. I did get in last Sat and Mon, but unfortunately I neglected to make posts. Bad Rob.
Tonight Cassio taught was two passes, both ending in subs, on a stacked opponent.
The first pas was off the double inside knee grip, drive them back over their shoulders, and while on your feet pinch their hips with your knees. You have a surprising amount of control from there. Now grip their same side sleeve around the triceps then reach across with the other hand and grab that same arm around the fore arm. stand up and pull up hard both your grips on their one arm. place your shin in their armpit, grab the nearside leg, step the leg over, and finish the arm bar.
The second pass was from double underhooks gripping the belt. sit up and stack them. Now things get interesting. grip their same side wrist. pull it towards you and behind their back. at the same time drive your other arm across their torso and pass to that side. you should have side control with your leg side arm gripping their far side arm behind their back. now lift their torso up and put your knee behind their back. reaching between their nearside arm and their head (reach your head side arm down and pass the arm off to the new grip. this may be very difficult depending on your opponents shoulder flexibility. With your newly freed hand secure their far side elbow to their torso and pull them into guard. finally reach that same arm over their head going two on one pulling their stuck arm up towards their head for the tap. um, yeah. If you read all that I'm amazed.
Rolled:
rolled three 6 or 7(?) min rounds
newer wb that i used to train at Tom's with, rest, Jordan, rest, John
Unfortunately I wasn't able to complete the first roll. I proceeded to tear the guys gi off. It already had a huge tear on the side but since most of my game is tugging on their arms... sorry about that! The last minute or so Richard jumped in
My roll with Jordan was ok. His two a day training regime is really paying off. I don't know how his body stands it. He pulled off a very sneaky pass while i was turtled up where he faked the click choke and then drove across to collapse the knee.
John was all over me. He passes my open guard like nothing. It kinda sucks. I think I need to move my hips a bit more lift my knee up vs. the knee across pass.
Wow, what a few weeks it's been. We had our first baby a few weeks ago. The experience was pretty amazing. Needless to say I did not get a lot of training in for a few weeks, two to be precise. I did get in last Sat and Mon, but unfortunately I neglected to make posts. Bad Rob.
Tonight Cassio taught was two passes, both ending in subs, on a stacked opponent.
The first pas was off the double inside knee grip, drive them back over their shoulders, and while on your feet pinch their hips with your knees. You have a surprising amount of control from there. Now grip their same side sleeve around the triceps then reach across with the other hand and grab that same arm around the fore arm. stand up and pull up hard both your grips on their one arm. place your shin in their armpit, grab the nearside leg, step the leg over, and finish the arm bar.
The second pass was from double underhooks gripping the belt. sit up and stack them. Now things get interesting. grip their same side wrist. pull it towards you and behind their back. at the same time drive your other arm across their torso and pass to that side. you should have side control with your leg side arm gripping their far side arm behind their back. now lift their torso up and put your knee behind their back. reaching between their nearside arm and their head (reach your head side arm down and pass the arm off to the new grip. this may be very difficult depending on your opponents shoulder flexibility. With your newly freed hand secure their far side elbow to their torso and pull them into guard. finally reach that same arm over their head going two on one pulling their stuck arm up towards their head for the tap. um, yeah. If you read all that I'm amazed.
Rolled:
rolled three 6 or 7(?) min rounds
newer wb that i used to train at Tom's with, rest, Jordan, rest, John
Unfortunately I wasn't able to complete the first roll. I proceeded to tear the guys gi off. It already had a huge tear on the side but since most of my game is tugging on their arms... sorry about that! The last minute or so Richard jumped in
My roll with Jordan was ok. His two a day training regime is really paying off. I don't know how his body stands it. He pulled off a very sneaky pass while i was turtled up where he faked the click choke and then drove across to collapse the knee.
John was all over me. He passes my open guard like nothing. It kinda sucks. I think I need to move my hips a bit more lift my knee up vs. the knee across pass.
Thursday, February 26, 2009
2009-02-25 Wed PM BJJ Class
Cassio Werneck BJJ - Sacramento CA - Cassio Werneck
Worked more reactions to people turtling. This time we covered the arm between the legs attacks.
Opponent is on their left side rolling towards you to turtle. You keep good pressure as they roll and slide their near side arm between your legs as they come to their knees. Their arm should be bent towards their feet. With your hps pressing down you straighten out their arm across the back of your calf. Their wrist should be on the back of your leg. From here you can left your left hip slightly and get the tap. Totally a finesse and feel move. I used to really struggle with this one, and still do to my right side. If they happen to bend their arm forward you can turn your body forward a bit, grab their wrist and pull it up for the shoulder lock. You could also pass their hand to your other leg by sliding your calf beneath the other.
The second technique was a response to someone protecting their arm by grabbing their belt. Little bit acrobatic. Once they have come up to their knees and grabbed their belt (their arm wrapped around your leg). You should be parallel to them. Take your arm nearest to them and drive it down and across their body. Then roll over that same shoulder. They MUST follow your roll or their going to seriously jack up their shoulder. That arm you stuck through is now very important as it will be preventing them from coming up and over you. Finally from here sit up in a sort of a reverse omaplata.
Rolled:
rolled three 8 or 9(?) min rounds
(wb that always calls me sir, punk ;) ), rest, rest, Brian, John
Rolling was good. Was able to switch to DLR guard when Brian and John stood up in my guard. Swept with varying degree of success. I really need to figure out how to recover guard when John passes. I didn't recover once.
Worked more reactions to people turtling. This time we covered the arm between the legs attacks.
Opponent is on their left side rolling towards you to turtle. You keep good pressure as they roll and slide their near side arm between your legs as they come to their knees. Their arm should be bent towards their feet. With your hps pressing down you straighten out their arm across the back of your calf. Their wrist should be on the back of your leg. From here you can left your left hip slightly and get the tap. Totally a finesse and feel move. I used to really struggle with this one, and still do to my right side. If they happen to bend their arm forward you can turn your body forward a bit, grab their wrist and pull it up for the shoulder lock. You could also pass their hand to your other leg by sliding your calf beneath the other.
The second technique was a response to someone protecting their arm by grabbing their belt. Little bit acrobatic. Once they have come up to their knees and grabbed their belt (their arm wrapped around your leg). You should be parallel to them. Take your arm nearest to them and drive it down and across their body. Then roll over that same shoulder. They MUST follow your roll or their going to seriously jack up their shoulder. That arm you stuck through is now very important as it will be preventing them from coming up and over you. Finally from here sit up in a sort of a reverse omaplata.
Rolled:
rolled three 8 or 9(?) min rounds
(wb that always calls me sir, punk ;) ), rest, rest, Brian, John
Rolling was good. Was able to switch to DLR guard when Brian and John stood up in my guard. Swept with varying degree of success. I really need to figure out how to recover guard when John passes. I didn't recover once.
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
2009-02-23 Mon PM BJJ Class
Cassio Werneck BJJ - Sacramento CA - Cassio Werneck
Worked some responses to the turtle. In in things to do when your opponent decides he's about to get passed or that he's sick of being under your half guard and he goes to all fours.
This is a favourite technique of mine, turtling up that is. Getting my hips around has always been a problem for me, the knees just don't want to come up. I've gotten better at it but still it's not good. I usually end up turtling up to avoid the pass.
With that in mind it was good to see things from the other side. The first was just a discussion of body position and how to move, keeping your pressure on the hip / lower back and not on the upper back and attacking the far side to put a hook in.
The fun stuff started next. He showed a choke where as you opponent begins to roll towards you to turtle you reach under their top arm with your near arm (like your going to go for a whizzer) and grab the NEAR SIDE collar. As they continue to roll over reach around their head (front head lock style) with your other arm and hand that lapel off. Get a deep grip.
now dive your head 'into the hole' as you slide your now free arm behind their head. roll them over if you need to, just be sure to keep the arm. Nasty choke.
Rolled:
rolled four 8 or 9(?) min rounds
Mike (? bb), Dustin, rest, tony, Dan (brb)
The first roll was pretty good. I felt under control but kinda stiff, like I was muscling things. The second was with a new guy I haven't seen before. I sat out for seated guard, he grabbed one ankle and damn near slid me across the floor. He didnt really need to 'pass' my guard much since this put my head about next to his hips. Um, little strong. I felt like I pulled guard out of survival mode, controlled things mostly. A few more months and he'll be a real pain in the ass to roll with. I heard he wrestled in college. Yep, thats gonna be fun stuff.
My roll with tony was good, I tried that high closed / knee pinch guard again and managed to catch him just before he backed out. That was nice. I tried some of the spider guard he's been pulling on me for years now. He passed it pretty handedly and then discussed what I did wrong. That was even nicer.
I was really trying to keep my defense together vs. Dan. It was crazy how when I focused on keeping my elbows in and tight and not opening up, he really seemed to get slowed down. Then as soon as i lost focus on that type of tight defense I'd get caught. I really need to be thinking that all the time till it gets automatic.
Worked some responses to the turtle. In in things to do when your opponent decides he's about to get passed or that he's sick of being under your half guard and he goes to all fours.
This is a favourite technique of mine, turtling up that is. Getting my hips around has always been a problem for me, the knees just don't want to come up. I've gotten better at it but still it's not good. I usually end up turtling up to avoid the pass.
With that in mind it was good to see things from the other side. The first was just a discussion of body position and how to move, keeping your pressure on the hip / lower back and not on the upper back and attacking the far side to put a hook in.
The fun stuff started next. He showed a choke where as you opponent begins to roll towards you to turtle you reach under their top arm with your near arm (like your going to go for a whizzer) and grab the NEAR SIDE collar. As they continue to roll over reach around their head (front head lock style) with your other arm and hand that lapel off. Get a deep grip.
now dive your head 'into the hole' as you slide your now free arm behind their head. roll them over if you need to, just be sure to keep the arm. Nasty choke.
Rolled:
rolled four 8 or 9(?) min rounds
Mike (? bb), Dustin, rest, tony, Dan (brb)
The first roll was pretty good. I felt under control but kinda stiff, like I was muscling things. The second was with a new guy I haven't seen before. I sat out for seated guard, he grabbed one ankle and damn near slid me across the floor. He didnt really need to 'pass' my guard much since this put my head about next to his hips. Um, little strong. I felt like I pulled guard out of survival mode, controlled things mostly. A few more months and he'll be a real pain in the ass to roll with. I heard he wrestled in college. Yep, thats gonna be fun stuff.
My roll with tony was good, I tried that high closed / knee pinch guard again and managed to catch him just before he backed out. That was nice. I tried some of the spider guard he's been pulling on me for years now. He passed it pretty handedly and then discussed what I did wrong. That was even nicer.
I was really trying to keep my defense together vs. Dan. It was crazy how when I focused on keeping my elbows in and tight and not opening up, he really seemed to get slowed down. Then as soon as i lost focus on that type of tight defense I'd get caught. I really need to be thinking that all the time till it gets automatic.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
2009-02-21 Sat AM BJJ Class
Cassio Werneck BJJ - Sacramento CA - Cassio Werneck
Worked some nice kimura attacks and attack response counters from the bottom today. After drilling the standard kimura form the bottom we got into the techniques proper.
The first was good basic information about just being in half guard. Keeping your edge. Defending your upper body from anyone grabbing your lapel or arm. Keeping your body extended away from your opponent. Keeping your knee up and across their body. It's so easy to get away from these core things sometimes.
We worked attacking the kimura while fighting that grip then he had the top guy defend the attack by burying the hand inside his own leg. The response was pretty simple. Let go your grip and post up on your bottom elbow, keeping your over hooked arm in place. Then hip over hard like a sitting up sweep. It was nice. Now if they post their leg out to counter the sweep just go back to the kimura since they've effectivly removed their hiding place.
Now rather than hiding their arm they could posture up. I see this in the more advanced guys I roll with. the response to this counter was interesting, and kinda difficult for me. As they posture up you swing your outside leg over their head and plant your foot on their near side hip, then attack the kimura and if they straighten out their arm maintain control of the wrist and finish with a NASTY shoulder lock / arm bar.
I was able to try some of these in our rolling sessons, not all that successfully but I tried them ;)
Rolled:
rolled four 9(?) min rounds
Dan (bb), Mike (teen), Marcos, rest (last round damnit)
It's been a while since I rolled with Dan and I have a few years mat experience on him. He's put in a lot more time lately, really slimmed down, and his game has really improved. He attacked me once with the kimura attack we reviewed in class that day, I postured up and I could feel his hip coming up. I limp armed out luckily or I don't thin it was going to go well for me soon. He also just about ran around once forcing me to go turtle to prevent side control. His choke attempt wasnt bad but I didnt feel like I was in danger. So imagine my surprise when he suddenly let go. He thought I had tapped when it was the guys behind us. I appreciated his caution. I did pull some closed guard with some success. Attacked the arm bar as he was getting up. Couldnt get my leg over the head so I tried something new from here and did that tight head and shoulder clamp Cassio teaches once in a while. he was pretty stuck there with his elbow buried deep. I grabbed his hand and pused it laterally outwards and caught him with the shoulder lock. I'm going to try that head / shoulder vice from there more often.
The roll with Mike was good. It gave me a bit of a rest and also let me give him a bit of help. I try to keep it too the simple stuff I know I'm getting right; elbows in, posture, stuff like that. there was a pretty big size difference and he worked pretty hard.
Then there was Marcos. That was a traffic accident. Since he's not feeling gracious enough to let me pull closed guard anymore I have to try to keep him at bay with my open guard. Not so much. He did counter my back attack in an interesting way that I asked him about after class. He turtled up briefly and I attacked trying to get my near side hook in. He proceeded to do a half shoulder rol, then sit his hips out and come over the top. I've seen this before in Telles's turtle guard video and I've even done it before but it was a trip to have it happen in real time and I didn't even recognize what was going on. Strange how the mental camera doesn't work right sometimes.
Worked some nice kimura attacks and attack response counters from the bottom today. After drilling the standard kimura form the bottom we got into the techniques proper.
The first was good basic information about just being in half guard. Keeping your edge. Defending your upper body from anyone grabbing your lapel or arm. Keeping your body extended away from your opponent. Keeping your knee up and across their body. It's so easy to get away from these core things sometimes.
We worked attacking the kimura while fighting that grip then he had the top guy defend the attack by burying the hand inside his own leg. The response was pretty simple. Let go your grip and post up on your bottom elbow, keeping your over hooked arm in place. Then hip over hard like a sitting up sweep. It was nice. Now if they post their leg out to counter the sweep just go back to the kimura since they've effectivly removed their hiding place.
Now rather than hiding their arm they could posture up. I see this in the more advanced guys I roll with. the response to this counter was interesting, and kinda difficult for me. As they posture up you swing your outside leg over their head and plant your foot on their near side hip, then attack the kimura and if they straighten out their arm maintain control of the wrist and finish with a NASTY shoulder lock / arm bar.
I was able to try some of these in our rolling sessons, not all that successfully but I tried them ;)
Rolled:
rolled four 9(?) min rounds
Dan (bb), Mike (teen), Marcos, rest (last round damnit)
It's been a while since I rolled with Dan and I have a few years mat experience on him. He's put in a lot more time lately, really slimmed down, and his game has really improved. He attacked me once with the kimura attack we reviewed in class that day, I postured up and I could feel his hip coming up. I limp armed out luckily or I don't thin it was going to go well for me soon. He also just about ran around once forcing me to go turtle to prevent side control. His choke attempt wasnt bad but I didnt feel like I was in danger. So imagine my surprise when he suddenly let go. He thought I had tapped when it was the guys behind us. I appreciated his caution. I did pull some closed guard with some success. Attacked the arm bar as he was getting up. Couldnt get my leg over the head so I tried something new from here and did that tight head and shoulder clamp Cassio teaches once in a while. he was pretty stuck there with his elbow buried deep. I grabbed his hand and pused it laterally outwards and caught him with the shoulder lock. I'm going to try that head / shoulder vice from there more often.
The roll with Mike was good. It gave me a bit of a rest and also let me give him a bit of help. I try to keep it too the simple stuff I know I'm getting right; elbows in, posture, stuff like that. there was a pretty big size difference and he worked pretty hard.
Then there was Marcos. That was a traffic accident. Since he's not feeling gracious enough to let me pull closed guard anymore I have to try to keep him at bay with my open guard. Not so much. He did counter my back attack in an interesting way that I asked him about after class. He turtled up briefly and I attacked trying to get my near side hook in. He proceeded to do a half shoulder rol, then sit his hips out and come over the top. I've seen this before in Telles's turtle guard video and I've even done it before but it was a trip to have it happen in real time and I didn't even recognize what was going on. Strange how the mental camera doesn't work right sometimes.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
2009-02-18 Wed PM BJJ Class
Cassio Werneck BJJ - Sacramento CA - Cassio Werneck
Late to class tonight, damn day job! Came in at the end of warm ups. I always feel kinda vulnerable when I start drilling or rolling without warm ups. Like I'm one stuped move from injury.
We're working some kimura attacks tonight, from the top while in half guard specifically. This counterpoints very nicely to some of the deep half guard sweeps we learned in the last few weeks.
The firt technique was from half guard facing the legs, your opponent has an underhook on your arm closest to the legs. This is a pretty standard technique, slide the hand up the arm. secure the kimura. The part that was different from me was the response to the inevitable death grip your partner gets on their belt. You post off your elbow/forearm and head, sliding your body out a bit. this should make room for our leg to get over their head. once hear reposition them into a vertical position. then apply the standard 'sitting on their head' kimura.
The second was a little more acrobatic. We started from a knee across pass position but rather than driving the knee through you change directions. Grabbing the kimura as you roll over your shoulder. If your driving your right knee through you would attack their exposed left arm and then dive over their arm and across your left shoulder. if they sit up you just us it to pivot yourself around for the armbar. was easier than it looked.
Rolled:
rolled four 8 min rounds
DJ, rest, Toby, rest, Dan(?,wb), Adrian
My rolls with DJ and a white belt named Dan(I think that's his name, I really need to work on the name thing). Good rolls, Dan moved around and attacked a lot. He suprised me with an omaplata. If I didn't have 40+ lbs on him I might have been in some real trouble. I've been trying to give people more pointers while we roll. Especially the white belts. I hope it doesn't come across poorly. I really don't wanna be that guy that talks all the time or seems to think he knows it all. I feel like nothing could be farther from the truth. I do remember a lot of the things I wish I knew when I was a white belt so I try to get some of those things across.
My rolls with Toby and Adrian were both pretty frustrating. Not that I expect a bunch of success against either of them. It's just that I seem to fall into the same patterns. I try some seated or foot on hip open guard, trying to pull closed guard. I get passed pretty easily. I then get handled on the way to getting submitted. I made Toby change attacks a few times but could never get back to a real guard replace. And I couldn't get an inch of space on Adrian.
Maybe it's time to forgo to closed guard focus and spend more time NOT getting passed.
Late to class tonight, damn day job! Came in at the end of warm ups. I always feel kinda vulnerable when I start drilling or rolling without warm ups. Like I'm one stuped move from injury.
We're working some kimura attacks tonight, from the top while in half guard specifically. This counterpoints very nicely to some of the deep half guard sweeps we learned in the last few weeks.
The firt technique was from half guard facing the legs, your opponent has an underhook on your arm closest to the legs. This is a pretty standard technique, slide the hand up the arm. secure the kimura. The part that was different from me was the response to the inevitable death grip your partner gets on their belt. You post off your elbow/forearm and head, sliding your body out a bit. this should make room for our leg to get over their head. once hear reposition them into a vertical position. then apply the standard 'sitting on their head' kimura.
The second was a little more acrobatic. We started from a knee across pass position but rather than driving the knee through you change directions. Grabbing the kimura as you roll over your shoulder. If your driving your right knee through you would attack their exposed left arm and then dive over their arm and across your left shoulder. if they sit up you just us it to pivot yourself around for the armbar. was easier than it looked.
Rolled:
rolled four 8 min rounds
DJ, rest, Toby, rest, Dan(?,wb), Adrian
My rolls with DJ and a white belt named Dan(I think that's his name, I really need to work on the name thing). Good rolls, Dan moved around and attacked a lot. He suprised me with an omaplata. If I didn't have 40+ lbs on him I might have been in some real trouble. I've been trying to give people more pointers while we roll. Especially the white belts. I hope it doesn't come across poorly. I really don't wanna be that guy that talks all the time or seems to think he knows it all. I feel like nothing could be farther from the truth. I do remember a lot of the things I wish I knew when I was a white belt so I try to get some of those things across.
My rolls with Toby and Adrian were both pretty frustrating. Not that I expect a bunch of success against either of them. It's just that I seem to fall into the same patterns. I try some seated or foot on hip open guard, trying to pull closed guard. I get passed pretty easily. I then get handled on the way to getting submitted. I made Toby change attacks a few times but could never get back to a real guard replace. And I couldn't get an inch of space on Adrian.
Maybe it's time to forgo to closed guard focus and spend more time NOT getting passed.
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