6.1.08 #58.2

Gi with Ferret

Tonight we reviewed the arm bar against the turtle Joey showed us Wednesday, then we spent about 20 minutes working take downs. I like the throws Ferret showed me and we are going to keep practicing them. I want the throws to become second nature. I need to spend more time working on my foot work, but its coming along and I am starting to get better with the hip toss. After that we spent the rest of the class rolling and reviewing the roll. Ferret caught me three or four times tonight in about 45 minutes and I made him work. I caught a few sweeps and got myself in some good offensive positions. I wasn't able to run any of the chokes I was having a hard time getting my hands in, I did try a few arm bars but with no luck. Because I wasn't able to get the chokes to work, Ferret showed me how to use the back of the gi and wrap it around your opponents neck and use that with a thumb in grip instead of getting inside the gi, it seemed to work pretty well. That is one more thing for me to work on.