no gi class

Last thursday night saw a good class for the no gi group, we had 4 students in, peter, luke, john and chris. It was good to have luke back after his couple of weeks of sick. Peter and I decided to grade Luke to 1 stripe a few days ago so hopefully he will join us in the monday and wednesday intermediate classes now.

We started the class by doing some punch drills and some kicks, I had one pair working on Jab, Cross and Weave drills on the Thai Pads and the other working low thai kicks on the shield. One of the main points that stood out with the thai kicks is helping everyone to remember to turn out their front foot as or before they kick, both to load up the hips for the kick and also to protect the front knee from jarring or over twisting.

The next part of our warm up was to get to the ground so I started everyone off figure 4 guard situps, we then moved to a set of 4 Figure 4 guard situps followed by a Hip Bump Sweep to mount and then the partner bridge and rolls to start again.

Following this introduction, we went through 2 techniques starting from side control with far under hook, Figure 4 arm lock and far arm bar. We concluded with Butterfly sweep. My next class is going to have more of a look at guard attacks on the figure 4 theme. We'll start with Figure 4 from guard, then Hip bump sweep, arm bar from guard.

In other news I have completed the DVD of the Craig Robinson Seminar check out the front cover image below.

See you all later!