Chokes and a little drilling

Today, we went over how to do a gi choke from guard.

1.) First, we learned how to go over a gi choke. This was pretty basic, as you break his grip and pull him towards you with your knees. From here, you go deep in his collar with your hand, and make sure there is no slack. Second, you go under your first arm and get in good and deep. Twist your wrists together, and commence choking.

2.) The next "choke" starts off like the first, but lets say they block. The next step is to go over his head, and grab near his neck. You can block his face with the arm thats not in the collar, and pull across with the hand that is gripping. This really hurts the face.

3.) The next is like the second, except that you grab the back as the same side as the collar is on near where you grip, and you kind of slip his head between your arms. You then pull like you did before. The other thing you can do is to put your leg on his hips and really pull.


Today I drilled with another guy. I was trying to pass his guard, except he swept me out of no where. So we drilled, and I think I'm pretty good at shrimping.. it helps that he was bigger so I could easily grab his leg. I was going to get full guard from him too, or at the least push him over. He was really expending a lot of energy and to be fair he was on me most of the time. There was once I wanted to push him over because he would jump so much every time to avoid me getting full mount, I really wanted to push him over but I couldn't quite get it. Another time when he was in full mount I managed to bear hug him, and I knew he was tired so I kept a good squeeze on him. I would've drilled with him more, except he looked like he had a sore on his mouth, so I feigned like I was as tired as he was (he was breathing really hard) I really didn't want no part of that sore if i could avoid it. Maybe tomorow's class will be just as fun... I don't know if I can drill but we'll see. I think I'll skip out on another week of lifting.