With the new instructor, the classes are only an hour long instead of two hours, but seriously, I feel like I was run over right now! One big difference is that a large portion of the time was involved in live rolling and hard sparring. With our last instructor, we had a 2 hour session with about an hour of passive/compliant drills, 30 minutes of semi-alive training and then 30 minutes of sparring, but during the sparring session there was rarely more than one pair going at a time. Last night, we had 30 minutes or review of Wednesday night's class with some tweaking of technical details, and then 30 minutes of live rolling, there was very little break in between. We were all rolling at the same time, with each of us going at least 4 times. I was lucky enough to roll 5 times...hence the way I'm feeling today!
Anyway, technical details: when bringing the leg over the head to sit back into the arm bar, it's important to not just simply step over the head. You can make a lot of open space which gives your opponent time to get his head clear and sit up in your guard. Most important thing is to slip your leg over without creating space.
When going for an Americana lock, the important point of tapping your opponent isn't necessarily torquing the arm upward, some people are just too flexible for that. It's more important to bring their elbow down tight to their ribs and then torque, this puts the maximum amount of pressure on the shoulder and often will tap people without even turning the arm.
With the cross collar choke, the most important detail is the grips, if you don't shoot your hands deep enough along the lapels, it will take much longer to finish the opponent, giving them extra time to breathe and think. You're better off shooting your hands towards the gi-makers brand tag behind the neck and try to make your knuckles touch there. Then lean forward and turn your palms up.
I'm already looking forward to Monday's class, it was nice to see that our head instructor's teaching style is very similar to his instructor's, who was the primary teacher on Wednesday night.
Anyway, technical details: when bringing the leg over the head to sit back into the arm bar, it's important to not just simply step over the head. You can make a lot of open space which gives your opponent time to get his head clear and sit up in your guard. Most important thing is to slip your leg over without creating space.
When going for an Americana lock, the important point of tapping your opponent isn't necessarily torquing the arm upward, some people are just too flexible for that. It's more important to bring their elbow down tight to their ribs and then torque, this puts the maximum amount of pressure on the shoulder and often will tap people without even turning the arm.
With the cross collar choke, the most important detail is the grips, if you don't shoot your hands deep enough along the lapels, it will take much longer to finish the opponent, giving them extra time to breathe and think. You're better off shooting your hands towards the gi-makers brand tag behind the neck and try to make your knuckles touch there. Then lean forward and turn your palms up.
I'm already looking forward to Monday's class, it was nice to see that our head instructor's teaching style is very similar to his instructor's, who was the primary teacher on Wednesday night.
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