Neck Pains

Today in class, we learned some moves when you're standing up and in a headlock. I also rolled a little today, and again had my neck hurt so bad that it hurts to swallow and feels like a knot in my throat.

1.) if you're in a headlock standing up, you'll want to grab their far hip by wrapping your arm around them, and step in front of them such that your toes are pointing towards their far foot. You can optionally then hook their far leg under the knee. Now that you're in position, you want to pull on their hip, and sit. You should then try and roll on and be "mounted".

2.) From here, lets say they keep you in a head lock. You will want to keep yoru weight on them, and while doing so make sure you pull one leg behind his head (he should be on his side) and one leg near his hip. Then you make an "A FRAME" and frame up to break his headlock. You then grab his arm and use your head to lock it, and you kind of shimmy your foot in front of his face and lean back. This is an arm bar.

3.) If you lose their arm and can't do an arm bar, you can then go to grab his gi around his neck from under his head, by sticking your thumb into his collar deep. And then you "chicken wing" his arm (hook in his arm, pull up, and then cutting down along your other arm against the back of his head). Thats a good choke.

4.) The next thing we learned is in full mount. You grab his lapel with your thumbs pointing towards you, and you grab at the point where your pinkys are under their collar bone. YOu wrap one side of the lapel along his adams apple, and the other you pull up. This is how i hurt my neck AGAIN, since my partner decided to pull really hard to start. I need to tell my partners to start slow, and to not pull nearly so hard. I am really starting to hate how easy it is to get injured by my partners.

Anyway, afterwards we rolled a bit. This was fun, and i tried out open guard and to sweep. Sweeping was less successful, but open guard was good stuff. I managed to get his back a couple times, and even did a choke from behind. I'm not sure if it was a "perfect" choke but it worked.