It is slap and bump time ground animals! The standard quick review for those of you joining class for the first time, this is a serial look at the white belt curriculum taught at our BJJ academy. Taught by lead instructor and BJJ black belt Ryan, it is designed to give you a solid base and start to your Brazilian Jiu Jitsu game.
This class, Ryan goes through submissions from side control. I LOVE this aspect of the curriculum because I am in side control regularly, there are plenty of dangerous submissions you can catch, and mount is generally easier to get when your opponent is defending submissions.
Key personal observations:
- For the key lock, I like to jam my elbow against the neck, give a little rib cage into their face, and those wrist twists are killer.
- It is amazing to me how many straight arm locks I catch chained off a key-lock escape. That turning detail is nice!
- Having Key-lock/straight arm lock/cross side arm bar combo in mind together leaves so many solutions to the variables of your opponent's escape tactics.
- Terry is going to have a sore elbow a day or 2.
Again, this post is only as great as the people it reaches and the benefit it has to the beginners through to the head instructors. Please ask questions, post comments or just shoot the shit in the replies section as I try and leave no comments unanswered and un-upvoted.