Artemis BJJ (Easton Street), Can Sönmez, Bristol, UK -25/07/2022
If you’re passing nogi, you do not have the enjoyment of gi grips that can assist you safe place. As a substitute, put your arms on the center of their shins, driving them into their physique. If they don’t seem to be blocking in opposition to their knees and framing with their arms, you wish to drive their knees proper into them, your body weight positioned excessive to pin them. Watch out of your posture: it’s good to get sufficient weight via your arms to pin their legs, however not be too far ahead (they may be capable of flip you) or too far again (your weight will shift off them).
Transfer off at an angle, then step your leg in deep, shin in opposition to the again of their knee, attempting to push their leg in the direction of the ground along with your hand (off that very same grip you had initially). Flip your inside knee inwards. You’ve got received your physique excessive of their different leg, trying to place your weight into the aspect of that leg.
By driving their leg throughout in the direction of their different leg, they are going to are inclined to push again: it is common for folks to provide the reverse response to no matter you are doing (i.e., you pull, they push). In the event that they push again, use that momentum to maneuver right into a knee slide. You comply with the place they’re pushing, bringing your shin over their thigh, your knee on the bottom. Your different leg steps out for base.
It is very important try to keep away from their knee coming in, as you do not wish to take care of the knee defend if you do not have to. In an effort to forestall it, circle your hand that’s gripping to as an alternative go to the hip, ensuring your arm maintains a block on their leg trying to sneak inside. You may then go to the underhook. Your knee that’s on the bottom pushes straight again, hip to the mat, then flip to aspect management.
If they do not push again, you may collapse your weight excessive of each of their legs, strolling your means up into mount. A extra complicated possibility is the leg weave cross. Having moved their legs throughout, so the highest leg is squished on prime of their different leg, hold your weight on there, posting your exterior leg for base. The knee of your different leg drives between their prime and backside leg, in order that your knee is on the bottom and pinning their backside thigh along with your shin.
You’ve got numerous choices to finish the cross. My desire could be to hook their prime leg with my exterior leg, getting my shin behind it and doing an enormous step (useful tip from Kenny Polmans in relation to a distinct cross, however it applies in plenty of conditions). Change the stress of your physique along with your hand on their prime leg, then transfer round behind.
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Instructing Notes: Do I want each variations? Simply the squash might be sufficient, particularly as it’s means less complicated than the leg weave. Although yeah, the leg weave offers higher precision and management, so nonetheless price instructing. However perhaps in a separate class, maybe as a part of another sequence? With grip breaks, one thing like that?
I additionally forgot to movie myself liberating the leg, once they seize an ankle. NEXT TIME DO A VID! It’s means simpler in case you are urgent down on the legs, as then you definitely elevate their butt off the bottom, which means you may merely kick throughout to free your leg from the grip.
