Early class

Today in class, we learned 4 things. Or three, really..

1.) If we're on top and the defenders on bottom, and you're starting to go after the kimura (spelling?) and they turn on their side, you want to grab the arm closest to you with both arms (with one arm behind the head wrapping inside his arm) and push forward. Here you want to also get the hook into one of their legs. Once you readjust so that you will take their back, you will want to bridge and pull them across. Pull your arm from under and put that arm near their neck for a monkey grip. Don't forget to get the second hook with your leg.

2.) This is a combination, where instead of just doing a monkey grip, midroll we want to do a rear naked choke. Key points to remember how to do the rear naked choke are elbow is pointing where his chin points and that I'm grabbing their shoulder. The other arm will knife in with the back of my hand towards their head. Grabbing my bicep I want to keep my head in close and close my elbows towards each other.

3.) We didn't practice this much but its pretty simple. If we are in half guard and they are close in on us, we can push under their chin with both hands, thus creating space. This allows us to get an underhook and then to shrimp out to full guard.