north south escapes

Today, we did north south escapes. Gotta remember these, so here goes..

First one is with your elbows tucked in, get to one side and force his hand to your leg, flip hips and force hand to your leg and if he adjusts back to north south you sweep else go to guard.

The next is if you don't have your elbows in. You choose a side and get your arms on the same side and the other arm pinches his elbow to his body. You then shimmy towards the head, and then you flip back towards the hip to take his back.

Confusing? yes, but hopefully this will help me remember!

Oh yea

A few other moves I can remember off the top of my head too

Doing friendship sweep, helicopter sweep, taking back from half guard and defending from half guard to take back, butterfly sweep (variations like grabbing both their arms and locking them, taking back from butterfly)

blue belted

Now that I'm a blue belt and learning new moves, sometimes I have to remember the new moves are setups, and that i can't always go to them. Sometimes when against another blue belt its best to switch it up and use some simpler moves too. For example when in half guard and trying to take their back, if they're really fighting that it might be easier to just go to guard

Yesterday we learned to transition from the no-gi triple attack sweep into a triangle, as well as a scissor to triangle.

Last week, we learned how to open the guard when you have one arm trapped (go to side, push on his ankle and go to side control). Also how to hold/choke from side control using their lapel (both the far arm and side arm lapel). Week before that was more friendship sweeps and half guard escapes and such.

I think I need to focus on remembering these new moves, since I am now forgetting the things I'm learning in the new class.