Huntington Beach Ultimate Training Center
I was unsure of the training schedule when I got out to Huntington Beach, so I got the gym at 5ish or so and some huge guy was not overly friendly. He managed to muster only a handful of words, most of which consisted of "twenty dollars" after I paid my twenty dollars I was free to do whatever I wanted in this very nice facility. Sub wrestling, as the class was called, didn't start until 6pm. So I had an hour to kill. I watched some of the kick boxing class and watched a few guys do some striking near the boxing ring about 5:45 I got into where I thought the class was going to take place and started warming up. About 10 minutes after 6 I begin wondering is this place on GT time too? Only to find out the grappling class is going on in one of the cages on the other side of the gym. So I hurry in to class.
Class starts out a little different from how we do things, at first I was a bit unsure how to go through some of the moves. However, by the end of class I was enjoying myself. The instructor, Brady Fink, showed us one offensive move, then the defensive move. So we started out with a series of offensive moves first, jump the shoulders into shoulder lock, arm bar, then triangle. Then he showed us the triangle defense from there we ran oomoplata, the other person ran a jump over move, then we ran an ankle lock. After running through these moves we worked take downs. One guy stands in the middle and stays in until someone is able to take him down and maintain control on the ground in a strong position. I only did one takedown, I actually tried one of my judo throws, which didn't work too well, but I tried. Then we locked up and I tried for my guillotine, we wrestled around on the ground before I was able to secure half-guard from the bottom and in this case it was considered a loss because my opponent had top position. At this point, my cab driver was there to pick me up for dinner and I was running very late! Glad to be back from Cali though, I wish I would have had more time to train, but work kept me busy.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Sunday, July 13, 2008
7.13.08 #69.2
Gi with Ferret
Tonight's main objective was two moves - darce choke and the bulldog. The darce choke, I thought I knew, but this intro is much more effective and takes the move to a much higher submission percentage. The trick when you go for the darce is to smash the head to the ground and to you. Then reach for the back of the neck. Once you get that, bring your knees out of the way, to clear the arm, go to the "rear naked" grip and drop the hips for the finish. The alternative off of that is the bulldog. Instead of gripping your hands "rear naked", you grab your wrist. Then you walk towards north/south and keep your opponent from going to his knees. Put your knees on his head, tightening the grip, then put your knee in his back and set your other leg out for base, drop your ribs and weight and lift up on the neck. I enjoyed the bulldog, definitely something I want to work on and add to my game. We also worked some defense against these moves, as well as, Ferret and Matt's 3 positions from side and a few escapes. Ferret and I rolled for about 15 minutes tonight too. It was a great class. Plus, I got to watch Jeremy and MM do some striking.
Tonight's main objective was two moves - darce choke and the bulldog. The darce choke, I thought I knew, but this intro is much more effective and takes the move to a much higher submission percentage. The trick when you go for the darce is to smash the head to the ground and to you. Then reach for the back of the neck. Once you get that, bring your knees out of the way, to clear the arm, go to the "rear naked" grip and drop the hips for the finish. The alternative off of that is the bulldog. Instead of gripping your hands "rear naked", you grab your wrist. Then you walk towards north/south and keep your opponent from going to his knees. Put your knees on his head, tightening the grip, then put your knee in his back and set your other leg out for base, drop your ribs and weight and lift up on the neck. I enjoyed the bulldog, definitely something I want to work on and add to my game. We also worked some defense against these moves, as well as, Ferret and Matt's 3 positions from side and a few escapes. Ferret and I rolled for about 15 minutes tonight too. It was a great class. Plus, I got to watch Jeremy and MM do some striking.
Monday, July 7, 2008
7.6.07 #68.1
Gi with Ferret
While I had class, Leland trained with Midget. Funny thing is, they were working on the same thing we were. Guard passes and loose guard. Tonight was a review of the things we have been working on the last few weeks. I made a dumb mistake from half-guard, for some reason I wasn't thinking clearly and tried a pass - facing the wrong direction. Ferret was giving me a hard time, but I had a total mental breakdown. So we reviewed the pass from half-guard, plus added to it. Tonight's class was good, even though I consistently get beaten by Ferret wrapping my gi around me. I was relaxed and it made its way through in to my jits. That is the biggest accomplishment to date, just relaxing and then exploding when I need to. I will continue to work on that and get better. I want to have that easy relaxed flow that Travis has then explode with power just like he does.
While I had class, Leland trained with Midget. Funny thing is, they were working on the same thing we were. Guard passes and loose guard. Tonight was a review of the things we have been working on the last few weeks. I made a dumb mistake from half-guard, for some reason I wasn't thinking clearly and tried a pass - facing the wrong direction. Ferret was giving me a hard time, but I had a total mental breakdown. So we reviewed the pass from half-guard, plus added to it. Tonight's class was good, even though I consistently get beaten by Ferret wrapping my gi around me. I was relaxed and it made its way through in to my jits. That is the biggest accomplishment to date, just relaxing and then exploding when I need to. I will continue to work on that and get better. I want to have that easy relaxed flow that Travis has then explode with power just like he does.
Friday, July 4, 2008
7.3.08 #67
Beginner with Rob
I warmed up with Cal for about 10 minutes before class started. He and I worked some arm bars from gift wrap. Then we worked some arm bars from knee-on-belly then turned that into kimura. Great stuff.
Rob started class tonight from the guard, but with an MMA feel. Similar to what we did on Tuesday, cobra grip, this time get the overhook with one hand and then with the other push your opponent's shoulder/chest area to create space, shrimp out and put the foot on the hip on the same side as the shoulder you pushed. From there take your other leg and put it across your opponent's neck. Make sure you foot on the hip knee is touching your foot behind the opponent's head. Use two hands with the triangle grip to lock your opponent down. From there you can throw punches or elbows if you are in a fight. Then if your opponent postures up in this position, you swich your feet and go for the triangle. Rob stressed you don't need to be in a hurry. You are much better off controlling the position. When you switch legs, make sure you get your other foot to the hip to keep your opponent from posturing up and again - triangle grip with the hands on the ankle to hold them as well. I worked with Wally and was able to get some good reps in tonight. From there, Rob had has drill for about 15 minutes.
Drill tonight was one down in OPEN guard, could not close your guard, objective sweep or submit. Man up just had to pass guard and get to side control. I passed all of my opponents, but on one attempt we got to a scamble and he took me down with a single leg to get the sweep. When I was down it took once or twice before I got in the groove. I swept original Mike, got two guillotines, swept 2 others and hit the arm drag nicely tonight, straight to back for the rear naked. I think I maybe am missing one or two others...
After that Rob called open mat, I had planned on going in the other room and relaxing for a bit and taking the wrestling class. However, Chad asked me to roll with him. Chad is a little bit bigger then I am and been training just over two years. We started out and I pushed him to try and pass but he was shrimping out going for attacks, I wasn't able to control his hips. I sat up and he pressed me, I tried for the arm drag and then settled in to butterfly guard. I then tried for the headsmash into my knee and was going to try the mma stand up Rob showed us Tuesday, but didn't get into position, but was able to push to half guard. From here we worked back and forth and it took me some time to get to side. As soon as I did I was facing away from him and went to Ferret's mount. I took mount, swept for the arm and missed it but I was mounted. I bugged the neck a few times, smashed the head and tried for gift wrap. I was able to maintain mount for a bit and try for some attacks, but no luck. I lost the position during a knee escape and backed off to side. From there Chad was trying to hip back in and went to turtle. I rolled him and took his back, but he was awful low on me, after some rear naked attempts he got loose and we had an akward scramble. I somehow ended up in his guard with one arm in and one out - not good. He tried to apply the triangle, but it was loose so I fought my way out of it. By this point wrestling class had started and we got kicked out. All in all a good night.
I warmed up with Cal for about 10 minutes before class started. He and I worked some arm bars from gift wrap. Then we worked some arm bars from knee-on-belly then turned that into kimura. Great stuff.
Rob started class tonight from the guard, but with an MMA feel. Similar to what we did on Tuesday, cobra grip, this time get the overhook with one hand and then with the other push your opponent's shoulder/chest area to create space, shrimp out and put the foot on the hip on the same side as the shoulder you pushed. From there take your other leg and put it across your opponent's neck. Make sure you foot on the hip knee is touching your foot behind the opponent's head. Use two hands with the triangle grip to lock your opponent down. From there you can throw punches or elbows if you are in a fight. Then if your opponent postures up in this position, you swich your feet and go for the triangle. Rob stressed you don't need to be in a hurry. You are much better off controlling the position. When you switch legs, make sure you get your other foot to the hip to keep your opponent from posturing up and again - triangle grip with the hands on the ankle to hold them as well. I worked with Wally and was able to get some good reps in tonight. From there, Rob had has drill for about 15 minutes.
Drill tonight was one down in OPEN guard, could not close your guard, objective sweep or submit. Man up just had to pass guard and get to side control. I passed all of my opponents, but on one attempt we got to a scamble and he took me down with a single leg to get the sweep. When I was down it took once or twice before I got in the groove. I swept original Mike, got two guillotines, swept 2 others and hit the arm drag nicely tonight, straight to back for the rear naked. I think I maybe am missing one or two others...
After that Rob called open mat, I had planned on going in the other room and relaxing for a bit and taking the wrestling class. However, Chad asked me to roll with him. Chad is a little bit bigger then I am and been training just over two years. We started out and I pushed him to try and pass but he was shrimping out going for attacks, I wasn't able to control his hips. I sat up and he pressed me, I tried for the arm drag and then settled in to butterfly guard. I then tried for the headsmash into my knee and was going to try the mma stand up Rob showed us Tuesday, but didn't get into position, but was able to push to half guard. From here we worked back and forth and it took me some time to get to side. As soon as I did I was facing away from him and went to Ferret's mount. I took mount, swept for the arm and missed it but I was mounted. I bugged the neck a few times, smashed the head and tried for gift wrap. I was able to maintain mount for a bit and try for some attacks, but no luck. I lost the position during a knee escape and backed off to side. From there Chad was trying to hip back in and went to turtle. I rolled him and took his back, but he was awful low on me, after some rear naked attempts he got loose and we had an akward scramble. I somehow ended up in his guard with one arm in and one out - not good. He tried to apply the triangle, but it was loose so I fought my way out of it. By this point wrestling class had started and we got kicked out. All in all a good night.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
7.1.08 #66
AM with Rob
Today's class was just what I needed for some offense from guard. Rob started class by showing us an MMA move that allows you to kick your opponent from your back. Put your opponent in guard, cobra grips (make sure your elbows are to your hips to keep your opponent from swimming his arms back in) and then put your feet on his hips. Swim out, apply pressure to his elbow and move down to his wrists. Shrimp out and kick your opponent with your heel in the sternum. Sweet move. From this we moved into the triangle choke. The set up was identical but the point that stuck with me was not to jump for the home run right off the bat. You know your opponent is going to posture up, so throw him into a shoulder jump and cross your legs. From there - SHAKE AND BAKE - throw your hips up as high into the air as you can and as you come down throw your feet to your head ***DON'T DO A CRUNCH*** Kick your feet back to break his posture, catch your ankle, other foot to the hip and finish. From there we went into another MMA move, from butterfly or guard, grab your opponents head, your elbow to you knee, post up and stand up as you apply pressure with your front foot to his hip. As you stand up bring the weight to his hip and press your hips into his head, then proceed to smash his face or take the mount. Great class today. I got to work with Dave and we got a bunch of good reps in.
After class, Wally let me work some of my open guard passes with him, I didn't do so well but I learned a few keys. Wally pointed out that when I do the butterfly pass, to really apply pressure to his waist and control his hips. Don't bother putting all of my weight on my head on the ground, apply the pressure to my shoulders at his waist. I look forward to working this more.
Today's class was just what I needed for some offense from guard. Rob started class by showing us an MMA move that allows you to kick your opponent from your back. Put your opponent in guard, cobra grips (make sure your elbows are to your hips to keep your opponent from swimming his arms back in) and then put your feet on his hips. Swim out, apply pressure to his elbow and move down to his wrists. Shrimp out and kick your opponent with your heel in the sternum. Sweet move. From this we moved into the triangle choke. The set up was identical but the point that stuck with me was not to jump for the home run right off the bat. You know your opponent is going to posture up, so throw him into a shoulder jump and cross your legs. From there - SHAKE AND BAKE - throw your hips up as high into the air as you can and as you come down throw your feet to your head ***DON'T DO A CRUNCH*** Kick your feet back to break his posture, catch your ankle, other foot to the hip and finish. From there we went into another MMA move, from butterfly or guard, grab your opponents head, your elbow to you knee, post up and stand up as you apply pressure with your front foot to his hip. As you stand up bring the weight to his hip and press your hips into his head, then proceed to smash his face or take the mount. Great class today. I got to work with Dave and we got a bunch of good reps in.
After class, Wally let me work some of my open guard passes with him, I didn't do so well but I learned a few keys. Wally pointed out that when I do the butterfly pass, to really apply pressure to his waist and control his hips. Don't bother putting all of my weight on my head on the ground, apply the pressure to my shoulders at his waist. I look forward to working this more.
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