Tue 8th - ECJJA

I wasn't sure about this session as the knee wasn't great - we drilled some takedowns (of course!) the knee was a bit sore but held up. A little sore afterwards but no worse than before I went in.

We did ten minutes drilling 2 takedowns.

You have opponents collar (when going for takedown, really hang out of their collar)

Takedown 1 -> when opponent has foot forward on same side you have his collar - drop down to knees under and at a right angle to him, under hook his leg with free arm, keep head up -> fireman's carry / throw.

Takedown 2 -> when opponent has foot forward on opposite side to where you have his collar, drop the same knee down first and hook around his far leg (hang out of his collar) go to single leg

After the takedown drills we looked at 2 techniques to attack the back.

1. Get harness and look to isolate opponents near arm with your legs (if he is a low level guy he will probably grab your leg and make this easier). If opponent rolls, go with it, keep your chest behind his back so he cant get it to the floor, make sure you triangle arm towards his legs - use legs to get armbar (flare out knee and extend hips) or else go for choke, one handed and pull elbow in to finish (sharper choke with the blade of the forearm)

2. If opponent rolls ad you can't get his arm with your legs, keep tight harness and sprawl on belly (like warmup drills) come up tight behind opponent and step bottom hook on floor or try to trap his arm and then get second hook in.

After this we did rounds of positional sparring - as it went on I was getting good success with attacking the back and getting the hooks in - once or twice I made the mistake of getting too high up on the opponents back and he tripod up to escape. I enjoyed this drill as I am weak attacking the back.

I had a round with Patch that went well, I managed to get single leg x from a few angles and get a double straight footlock, I got a single leg x sweep and came up on top (left knee felt ok doing this) and managed to fight some scrambles , knee shield pass, stay heavy and stay on top.

I also rolled with S and had a bit more success with the open guard and getting single leg x position once or twice. I was just happy the knee felt OK and didn't flair up afterwards.