5.8.08 #47

Trained with Butter

Today was one of the more fun days training. Jeremy and I didn't spend a lot of time today going 100%, we worked more on side control escape, side attacks and I learned a 2v1 sweep. My main goal today was to work on getting my hands into a better spot when I give up side control and we focused on that for about 15 or 20 minutes. Jeremy also spoke to me about being prepared when my opponent is passing me. We worked on defending the pass by shoving my hands into the armpit and creating space when my opponent stuffs my feet - preventing the pass before it happens. If that fails, then get my hand and arm ready to get the under hook and defeat the pass before it happens. Then after spending a few minutes on this we went back to working side defense and I took some turns on side offense and we just transitioned back and forth. Then Jeremy showed me the 2v1 sweep - grab my opponents opposite arm from the 2v1 side, get perpendicular, rock my opponent up on to my leg and sweep them over. After repping this a few times we went back into the transition from side control to escape to 2v1 to escape and so on. Then Jeremy started from my guard and worked on passing to side and I tried to defend. We spent 10 minutes or so going through this and Jeremy let me work triangle chokes and arm bars - even though he escaped most of my attempts, it was good work. Then we spent the last 5 minutes rolling. Jeremy was pretty exhausted since he had trained all day, so he didn't come at me anywhere close to last time we rolled. That was fine with me, I was pretty bruised up from last night and I didn't even train that hard. I guess I am getting soft in my old age. Today was an awesome day training. I knew today was going to be a good day when all of the studs from GT's fight team was in the house training. As we started to warm up Andrew Parker came in, then Bamboo and Shane, finally, No Regard joined the training party. I watched those guys train for a few minutes before I left and those guys train at an amazing level.