5.4.08 #45

Trained with Ferret

The focus today was working on defense against side control. I have been putting my hands and arms in bad places lately, giving up easy submissions to my opponent. Ferret showed me to make sure my close hand is on my opponent's hip and my far hand should try to get underhook and get my opponent high on me to escape. If my opponent goes low and traps my arm, if I stay on my back I will get submitted. So I have to get to my side and try to work my far arm back in, frame my opponent off of me and try to hip back in. Doing this however, should cause my opponent to work north-south and go for my now up arm. Which leads in to a few different options. The main thing I need to take away from tonight is to make sure that if my far arm gets trapped, I have to get to my side to prevent being submitted. Then to talk about when I am attacking from side, if I lose the underhook then I need to get my body and head toward my opponent's hip and control his arm and then work north-south if he goes to his side and if not go for the sub!