February 21st, 2009 by jgatienza

Over the weekend I attended David Adiv’s seminar held at our academy.

His warm-up exercises were as follows:
- forward rolls
- back rolls without using hands
- shrimping
- feet, hip, shoulders. Starting on your back, both feet goes to the side, hip out, pull your shoulder towards you until your are completely over your shoulder.
- shrimping, right leg back, shoot your left leg under your right leg and squeeze your straight left arm under your body and the mat and and roll over your right leg and back onto your back, repeat
- monkey stance then alligator crawl
We did these exercises from one end of the room to the other.

Take downs
Hip throw: 1) with your right hand grab your opponents gi on the right side. 2) pull him into you and get your hips under his and pull him over. *Note: you don’t even have to use your left hand for this throw.

Single leg: 1) your right hand is behind your opponents back holding on to his belt and your left hand is over his right arm and your head is on the right side of his. 2) with your right leg drop down and shoot it between his and lay it flat behind his left foot. 3) shift your weight over his trapped foot to cause him to fall backwards.

Foot sweep: 1) your right hand is behind your opponents back holding on to his belt and your left hand is over his right arm and your head is on the right side of his. 2) suck him into you so that his back is straight, your right shoulder should be against his chest. 3) pull him to the left, when you feel him take a step sweep his right foot with your right foot.

Questions and answers.

Keeping the mount (2 variations):
First variation: 1) your opponent tries to push you away with both hands, lean into him. 2) with your right hand shoot it under and in between his hands and post up above his head. 3) do the same thing with the left hand.

Second variation: 1) your opponent tries to push you away with both hands, grab his right sleeve with your right hand, left hand goes behind his tricep pull him to the right. 2) where your left knee was replace it with your left foot and then drop your knee forward. 3) do the same to the other side.

Attacking from the mount
Armbars: 1) your opponent is defending the armbar and has his hands locked together. 2) with your right leg place it over his left arm to break the grip and finish the armbar. You should be able to finish the armbar sitting up.

I know there were other small differences in the armbars but I can’t remember it…

Americana: 1) with both hands grab your opponents lapel and open it up. 2) using his gi to force his right arm to the mat. 3) place a kimura lock on it and place your forehead over your right hand, finish the submission.

Collar chokes from the mount (these are the ones that I remember).

Basic collar choke: 1) you have your grips in nice and deep and your opponent defends by  grabbing your wrists. 2) hop up on your feet where your knees was just at and bring your knees down on to his arms to break his defense. If you have too, place your forehead on the mat.

Collar choke while trapping your opponents hand in his gi: 1) you are in the mount, turn your opponent to his left side. 2) your right foot should be by his midsection, your left leg should be laying flat against his back, your left hand should be under his head. 3) at this point you may have his lapel but he maybe defending really well, which prevents you from submitting him, simply take your right hand and take the lapel from your left hand and wrap it around his defending hand and re-establish your grip again with your left hand. 4) you can cup his elbow or make a fist under it and squeeze and pull for the submission.

Baseball choke (I call it a baseball choke): from what I remember 1) get your left hand under your opponents head and grab his collar (thumb in side). 2) place your right hand in his gi above your left hand like you are holding a bat. 3) slide your right leg over to your opponents right side. 4) walk in a clock wise motion and drive your right elbow to the mat.

There was so much information in such a short amount of time please feel free to post details that I have forgotten or correct the information that I have given.

armbar, collar choke, mount

February 19th, 2009 by jgatienza

2 mount escape techniques: The first mount escape we learned is when your opponent is on top of you and he has your legs in a grapevine 1) you kick your left leg straight out (to free yourself) and lay it flat on the mat, push your opponents knee with your left hand and get your left leg from under him and into half guard, 2) get to your side and do the same to the other leg and get him into your guard.

The second mount escape we learned was 1) get both of your hands on your opponents waist, bump up and bench press up, quickly get your hips to the mat. 2) get your both of your knees under him so that he is on top of you. 3) kick your legs out to push him away.

mount escape

February 17th, 2009 by jgatienza

Butterfly guard to sweep: starting from the butterfly guard 1) both of your feet have to been in between your opponents legs. 2) get your forehead against his chest and S grip behind his back. *Note if your opponent is larger and can’t get your grip you can grip above his shoulders and raise your elbows up. 3) if your opponent snakes his hand under your left arm let him (this is better for you), with your right hand grab his belt from his back, grab the loose gi material around his knee with your left hand. 4) fall to your side and kick your right leg up for the sweep and finish in side control.

butterfly

February 10th, 2009 by jgatienza

Armbar from the scissor sweep position: starting from your guard. 1) get your grips in (one in the collar with the right hand, grab the gi under the right arm). 2) break your guard and get on your side like you are going to do a scissor sweep. 3) if your opponent tries to post to prevent from getting swept, shoot your right leg thru and straighten it. 4) pivot on the small of your back and hammer down with your right leg across your opponents back. 5) swing your left leg over his head and squeeze the knees for the armbar.

Triangle from the scissor sweep position: starting from your guard. 1) get your grips in (one in the collar with the right hand, grab the gi under the right arm). 2) break your guard and get on your side like you are going to do a scissor sweep. 3) if your opponent tries to block your leg that you are trying to sweep him with (his left arm is blocking the front of your right shin/leg), let your right leg slide up to his neck, raise your hips if you have to, but get as much of your leg pit around his neck. 4) pull his right arm across your body (hips up, pull and down), lock your legs together, grab your shin, break him down, push on his hips or on the mat if you have to. 5) lock your legs again and squeeze your legs together and pull down on the head for the triangle.

armbar, sweep, triangle

February 6th, 2009 by jgatienza

kimura, hip over sweep, guillotine

guillotine, kimura, sweep