Honestly I think a lot of us in the intermediate and higher level would significantly accelerate the improvement of our jiu jitsu if we just ditched the usual class structure and just picked what we wanted to work on and did rounds of positional sparring from there, mixed in with troubleshooting discussions in between. In other words, trial and error and problem-solving.
Good, focused, worthwhile rolls tonight. Was able to force everyone I rolled with into my half guard which is in itself a victory as a lot of people tend to stand and pass, x passes and knee slides being most common. By using the shin to shin and outside knee torque I was able to get people to sit back down when they attempted to stand.
Tonight I was able a couple of times to get the underhook and shoot under deep… before class I watched a great technique of half guard master Jake Mackenzie where he shoots deep half and comes back up to secure a knee torque underhook half. I was able to implement this back and forth idea when I felt in danger of guillotines (in normal half) or kimuras (while deep half). This creates a lot of instability to my opponents’ base. Plus I didn’t get guillotined once tonight which is a huge improvement from last week!
I also managed to get out of a deeeeep darce today (off my quarter guard dogfight counter against a knee slice) using the principles of this video to force my opponent to change to a bottom side darce, where I worked to get my trapped arm below on the mat. Really stoked about this!
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