6.15.08 #61.4

Gi with Ferret

We spent a good 30 to 40 minutes of just rolling tonight. The 15 or 20 minutes I spent learning tonight was a lot moves off of one set up. The move starts from guard, trapping your opponents arm and then feeding his gi collar into that hand, from there you have a myriad of submissions to work into - gi chokes, shoulder locks, oomoplata, triangle, the list goes on and on. We mainly worked two moves tonight, the gi choke and oomoplata. We plan to work this series a bit more over the next few weeks, so I can get more reps in and add this to my gi game. The set up can be used in no-gi too and is commonly used to set up triangle.

The reason we didn't review the throws from last week was I didn't want to re-injure my hip and sit out another week. We stayed away from those until the end of the lesson tonight. We did review the footwork for just a few minutes, I didn't want to throw my hip around too much. I won't be able to go to the Gi class Wednesday night this week due to work obligations - I am bummed.