Knee Rider's uncreatively titled training log: 100% tedium guaranteed.

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  1. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    I've been attempting to re-establish inside lapel grip if opponent gets it first by feeding hand under and opening opponent's arm out with my elbow to their elbow... It's my judo-ish comparative to an under hook and getting sleeve control after that.

    Then I'm watching the feet and trying to stay loose and relaxed.

    Tomorrow I'll try allowing mutual grips.

    I want to try hitting ouchi gari and some cool looking footsweep from a Jimmy Pedro clip (takedown blueprint) which works from establishing a yourself at a perpendicular angle to your opponent, pulling their foot out and the sweeping as you rock them backwards with your upper body... It looks like piece if cake so I imagine it'll be next to impossible to execute/set up in reality.
     
  2. icefield

    icefield Valued Member

    Foot sweeps are one of those things that look easy but are hard as hell to make work :( now using foot sweeps to set of balance and set up your main throws that's another thing

    Good call on going with the throw nearly all the injuries I have seen and had come from fighting the throw too hard, for older people getting into judo it's best to leave the ego at the door and go with the flow especially with good competitive judoka
     
  3. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    Judo tonight.

    Practicing moroto seo nagi and seo nagi in isolation and in combination for a hr. My partner was a new starter, wrestler, doorman (not actually relevant) and was completely bored by it. I on the other hand loved it. I really appreciated just having the time to drill and work on angle, footwork etc it's quite grind based and detail based and that suits me and satiates my need to work.

    Then randori.

    Practiced from mutual grips. Hit a few osotoari and attempted to footsweep as a set up. Entered into seo nagi and moroto seo nagi but no kake for me!
     
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  4. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    Been slacking on this log lately.

    Basically just been judoing the past few weeks. Going to get back to 2 sessions of BJJ and standup sparring on a Saturday in tandem with 2 judo sessions in October/november; just need to let my hand heal a little more.

    Judo training is pretty repetitive but fun. Managed to hit seoi nage a few times in randori tonight as well as osoto gari a good bit too.

    Stuffed some entries and transitioned into ne waza too. The guys there don't have Stella groundwork so I could pass/mount/knee on belly without too much bother.

    Got caught with an absolutely beautiful footsweep by one of the brown belts... The epitome of judo's essence and a joy to receive that technique in live randori. I was literally smiling as I hit the mat.
     
  5. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    I love me a foot sweep, is your judo dojo ok with knee on belly?
    Its really frowned upton at the 3 dojo ive trained in, more because its not a recognised pin then anything else.
     
  6. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    No one said anything, but I only did it once. Probably it is frowned upon if that's your experience at other dojo.
     
  7. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    Right, been a long time since I updated this bad boy.

    So after three months away from the gym with a hand injury I'm finally back in training properly. Over the last few months I've dipped my toe in Judo and checked out a few open mats to try and keep my hand in but nothing serious/strenuous.

    Now I'm healed up I've decided to drop judo. i loved it but I can't make it more than once a week which just isn't enough to make progress and will detract training time from MMA.

    I'm back to 3 sessions of grappling a week, 2 Thai boxing sessions and 1 MMA to integrate.

    I'll try updating this every session and setting new goals.

    After tonight, my primary goal is going to be working my open guard. My top game doesn't appear to have deteriorated much at all, my closed guard was effective but I struggled to establish a good offensive open guard all night. I also attempted a triangle choke that you could have seen coming so easily I'd may as well of held up a neon sign as I flung myself into it :/

    Favourite moment of the night was fighting for a half guard pass against a very strong dude who was attempting lockdown all the time and finally getting the pass into a very dominant side control. I worked the pass for about 7mins so finally settling into a crushing roy harris style side control and hearing the air leave my partners lungs was absolute sadistic joy :p he armbarred me in a subsequent roll which was a pretty sweet sub so I got my just desserts eventually.
     
  8. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    BJJ

    Class material: two variations of half guard pass and a transition to mounted armbar.

    Pass one: crossface, chest to shoulder pressure, sprawl hips and walk legs away from body, step far leg under and place shin over opponent's leg, step out to reverse kesa and transition to side control.

    Pass two: far shoulder control if crossface blocked, switch hips, grip far side pant leg and force to mat, slide knee through, left knee up, right knee up, left arm up/stabilise mount (reverse for other side pass).

    Armbar: catch arm with underhook on transition from pass two. Heavy shoulder pressure and walk it up to mount. Push face away with other forearm, shin over chest/face. Pressure for armlock.

    Class format:

    Warm-up
    Passing/defending isolation sparring
    Drilling
    Rolling

    My goals:

    Working on my open guard. Having success using spider to control arms and work my way into closed guard on a standing opponent. Always looking for tripod and tomahawk sweeps but most people are savvy to those attacks and shut em down by maintaining base and posture. Finding I can use spider to fend off them time it to feed my legs past the hips and climb them into a high close guard and control posture to bring them down from there.

    Difficulties: at one point today I was rolling with a guy who is literally twice my size. He is built and tall, ex army, has rugged old man strength and always uses it. Usually I play a very offensive game against him to get top control and keep myself safe, controlling from side control and north south. As I'm working my guard though I played from bottom today.
    The issue was that after I had him in closed guard his base and posture was like a flipping rock. I could not break him down using any of my usual strategies and due to our relative frames/scales he was able to simply edge his elbow back to start opening my guard (I could barely close it on him). I baited triangles to force him to stack to re-establish guard and to get him moving but nothing I did to sweep or break him down caused any compromise in his structure. I was able to cross grip and hip away to standing but then I just sat back to open guard to focus on that area. I really felt out of options.

    Question: does anyone have any experience dealing with someone like that? Is it a question of just opening, getting to stand in base and driving to top or do you have any strategies for playing an active guard against an immovable object??
     
  9. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    BJJ

    Class material: passing spider guard.

    Class format:
    Warm up
    Passing guard isolation sparring
    Drilling
    Rolling

    Spider guard was basic but effective passes. I liked them. Definitely put them to use.
    Rolling went well. But lazy and stuck to mostly tip game tonight but purely because that was how the rolls developed. Solid side control pressure to mount. Finished one guy from back mount with a collar choke but couldn't out the last guy away. Kept creeping hand up to isolate arms form arm triangle but he kept under hooking out at last minute. Going to look up some stuff to find tune that. Feel like my passing, side control to mount game us getting very solid. Back to working open guard next session.

    Fixed my problem from last session: just underhook, gable grip and pulled the elbow away of one arm at same time as tugging with legs. Turns out cupping and pulling elbow out isn't enough for some people.
     
    Last edited: Nov 7, 2016
  10. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    BJJ

    Class material: back take from arm drag.

    Strip grip, break posture and pull arm across as you bring your knees to your chin. Open guard and put pressure through your outside knee. Get to elbow. Climb to back and secure back mount hooks. Drop shoulder.

    Also drilled a very effective counter to the opponent's common reaction of holding the inside leg to prevent the back take.

    Class format:
    Warm-up
    Guard pass sparring
    Drilling
    Rolling

    Rolling was good. Ive been working my guard. Hit a few collar chokes and was keeping posture broken well whilst controlling arms/grip fighting. I need to work on being more aggressive submission wise as I still always look for sweeps to mount or chokes that have low risk high reward. Main issue is elevating my guard/hips enough to be a genuine threat regarding triangle and armbars. I'm basically a wrestler in a gi.

    One thing I'm seeing in my game is that my worst positions are the ones I enter into without clear theoretical objectives. This means I can get flumoxed when my technique string gets shut down and I don't have a clear mental path to where I want to be. All my top positions I know where I need to be and what I need to be controlling to make decisions on the fly. Closed guard bottom same. Half guard bottom is mostly there. Open guard and passing high level guard players however gets tricky if my technique fails.

    My open and closed guard are my priority ATM so going to get focussed on the fundamental concepts of position and pressure and where my attention needs to be to be able to adapt freely.
     
  11. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    BJJ

    Class material: closed guard sweep and omoplata sweep.

    Using hip and under hook on either keg to sweep standing opponent. If they turn the knee in to drop base and defend the feed sleeve grip towards underhook and double grip. Far leg to hip. Near leg sweep over and figure four (omoplata set up). Turn to far shoulder as straighten legs to come up reverse knee on belly type position. You can work to side control or armbar from here.

    I like the technique a lot and hit it twice in live full rolling tonight.

    Class structure:

    Warm up
    Passing guard sparring
    Drill
    Roll


    Rolled with a very light girl today. Nice and technical and a nice change if pace from the head on smash fest a lot of guys there try to bring. Allowed me to play lighter and work my open guard/spider guard passing and play a gentler more mobile game from my own guard. Had a good roll with a newish bug dude who I got to try the opposite on and tapped with a new choke from guard I've been working on and got the tap from top pressure in side control using a new side control approach I've been working on. Got utterly smashed by a purple but escaped a omoplata in a new way which I pinched from a YouTube video I saw and gave him a tough time from my open guard for longer than usual (he usually cuts through it like butter). All in all a good night except at the end he brutally crossface me with his forearm blade from back mount to sink a choke I was defending and it SHREDDED the inside of my upper lip with my own teeth... It's gonna be a bug bruise tomorrow :(
     
  12. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    'BJJ: attack of the head squeezing newbie maniacs

    Class material: spider guard, armbar, triangle and omoplata to armbar

    As the title suggests I rolled with two newish guys who basically rolled like I was about to rob their house.

    First guy was young and very strong, very flexible and very 'keen'. He's the type of dude who jumps to his feet as soon as you've slapped hands and tries to belly flop you from above and/or run around your guard like Benny Hill on amphetamines. Just played open guard till I could close then swept, choked a bunch of times. He's actually got a decent open guard (he wanted to play from his guard last few goes) and much higher level physical attributes than he appears he would have. I think he'll be a bloody nightmare in a few months. I also think he has a bit of judo under his belt.

    Next guy was basically brand new. Few weeks in. He wrapped my head and tried to rip it off with all his might, seriously ground my face up. He was school yard deadlocking me and trying to flip me over so I just waited in S mount, forearm pressured till he gassed out and my head popped up then smashed him with the most horrible pressure I could muster for 10mins till I heard the 30src callout and choked him, out of pure spiteful revenge and to keep myself nice and safe and injury free.

    I did have a third roll with a solid well built technical blue though which had loads of back and forth and felt really flowy. It was the perfect blend if pressure, speed, skill and intensity from his part so I just tried to match it. Stark contrast to the other rolls and it felt great. I got sweptva lot from open guard but managed to recover from mount to half each time and ended just about to pass from half guard top as bell went. Pretty happy with my mount escapes tonight.

    Wasn't a fan of tonights technique so no details on that. Just wasn't the right time for me maybe. I could get the largest part of it technique-wise but I didn't connect with it and don't think I'm going to try it live for now. Although the triangle set up was pretty sweet.
     
  13. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    BJJ

    Class material: single leg x sweep from shin to shin/butterfly guard.

    Great technique. Gonna start implementing right away.

    Rolling 2x 10mins.

    2 good rolls. Actually spent them both maintaining mount after sweeping from open guard. Both guys were really strong and tough to keep pressure on so mostly floating in high mount to s mount to back mount again. Trying to hit head and arm and Ezekiel but to no avail :(
     
  14. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    Just been rereading this for myself... It's been a while. I essentially stopped training for a bit, got into striking more, moved house, changed gyms and now here I am again. New gym is striking only and has a broad demographic of students. The instruction is really good and I like the sparring so I'm happy there.

    I'll be updating this next week if my rib permits. I'll also be uploading some bagwork here on or a new thread for everyone to mock and critique once they've gotten over how goddamn cool and handsome I am.
     
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  15. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    Went training tonight. Rib feels ok. Took a shin to it twice. Made me wince but it's held up.

    Training:

    Warm up - joint mobility
    Squats

    Give and take partner drills focusing in power, penetration and tight defence.

    Lead roundhouse, cross hook power roundhouse.
    Power roundhouse, hook, cross, lead or switch roundhouse.
    Jab then rear leg/mid/ head kick.
    Cross then lead leg/mid/, head kick.

    Pads: various hand combinations ending in a roll and breakout right on the lead hook and then left if a cross comes in behind the hook.

    Squats

    Stretches


    I wanted to film myself on the bag tonight but class ran over by 30mins and my missus was waiting in the car... I'll do it next session
     
  16. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    So after my session today I asked my coach to film my sweaty, sack of excrement excuse for bagwork.

    Few things I dislike such as hands a little low, a couple kicks where I could turn the hip more and general lack of pop are due to massive fatigue (you can see how soaked with sweat I am) but anything else you spot is likely due to bad habits. If you can hear me clearing my nose a lot it's cuz a big bubble if snot started coming out of my nose about 2secs into filming... Yeah, super hot.

    Have at it. Eviserate me.



     
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  17. Pretty In Pink

    Pretty In Pink Moved on MAP 2017 Gold Award

    Look good man. I have small stuff I could write down if you like but you seem set on a very good path.

    Extend your punches so that your shoulders rotate for maximum range, and time your kicks better, as the bag swings back to the center rather than when it's swinging away.

    Everything else looked great tbh. Not a whole lot to critique.
     
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  18. Knee Rider

    Knee Rider Valued Member Supporter

    Thanks mate! I agree with those criticisms. I'll try them next week and re-film. Thanks for the compliments too.

    Edit - might try and get a fresh round in Saturday if I can time to see the difference.
     
    Last edited: Nov 10, 2017
  19. Pretty In Pink

    Pretty In Pink Moved on MAP 2017 Gold Award

    I find I feel best about 3/4 of the way through a session, after the blood is flowing but before I'm exhausted.
     
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  20. icefield

    icefield Valued Member

    Nice movement, nice high hands and good combinations, and circling off

    I'd just say extend your punches more especially the jab, maybe get your head off the line when you throw the body hook you hand lowers but not your body or your head doesn't go with the hand it's stays upright, and personal preference is to throw kicks off the opposite leg so left body hook right round kick rather than same side, but that's preference not critique lol
     
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