5.28.08 #57

Gi with Joey

Tonight Joey threw 4 moves at us. The first being a sweet armbar against a turtle opponent - can be used in no gi too. You pry the arm open, stick in the hook and then put your knee to the floor by their ear with your other leg, straighten your hook leg and take an armbar. Nice move.

The other three moves that we worked on were variations for the butterfly sweep. I can't recall them now very well. One was if your opponent posts out with his off leg, you push the leg and take the sweep, another was if your opponent posts with his off hand behind your head, you push your head around, switch your hips and go to a half-guard position and collapse the knee and ankle with your arm and take the sweep. I can' for the life of me remember the third move.

Then Joey put 6 people on the floor and had us take turtle position, our opponents took side and they were suppose to submit us. Our job on the bottom was to put our opponent back into some sort of guard. I did pretty well on the bottom, I was able to defend myself basically the entire time. Then when I went to top position (which I only did once) I ended up in guard, so not very well on the offense tonight.