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February 26, 2008 12:04 PM
Heel Hooks - Part Deux
Just got back from the doctor's, and she gave me the go ahead to start wrestling again as long as I'm not picking my opponents up. No heavy lifting for another month, but training is to be done at my discretion.
I think I'll wait another week to be safe, but it's good to get a clean bill of health.
I wanted to elaborate more on some of the techniques that drew went over on Sunday. Mostly just for my own edification, but if someone takes something from it; then all the better.
February 25, 2008 9:36 AM
Heel hooks
Finally got back to the mat today after 3 weeks out.
Drew had his heelhook seminar and it was phenomenal. Showed a lot of really great setups from a lot of different positions and I think I took to them pretty well.
I plan on implementing heel hooks into my game immediately, I'm very comfortable in most of the setups, especially top half-guard, which I find myself a lot of the time.
I still don't plan on rolling for a couple weeks, but it still feels great just getting into the gym to drill some techniques instead of watching from the sidelines. I goto the doctors tomorrow for my followup and I hope that she wont be discouraged about me training in a couple weeks. I'm looking to compete at the June 28th Grappler's Quest, and I'd like to get down to 180 then if at all possible.
It's good to have goals.
Drew had his heelhook seminar and it was phenomenal. Showed a lot of really great setups from a lot of different positions and I think I took to them pretty well.
I plan on implementing heel hooks into my game immediately, I'm very comfortable in most of the setups, especially top half-guard, which I find myself a lot of the time.
I still don't plan on rolling for a couple weeks, but it still feels great just getting into the gym to drill some techniques instead of watching from the sidelines. I goto the doctors tomorrow for my followup and I hope that she wont be discouraged about me training in a couple weeks. I'm looking to compete at the June 28th Grappler's Quest, and I'd like to get down to 180 then if at all possible.
It's good to have goals.
January 15, 2008 11:28 PM
First & Second Days Back
Feels good great to be back on the mat.
On Monday, before class started, Jazz (brownbelt) asked me to roll around a bit no-gi. We started in my guard and went half-pace for awhile. He had relatively little trouble passing and proceeding with the smashing, but I was able to escape side control and get back to my knees, or back in his guard without too much issue.
He went on show me an incredibly basic, but handy way of moving to someones back with them in your guard. The idea is to pull the person towards you with your legs, and get both your arms under their armpits and clasped behind their back with the standard grip. Once you have this locked in, place 1 foot on the hip, and drop the other foot to the ground, and elbow escape out as much as you can. Getting up on your hand helps with base if they try to smash you to the ground, and from there, the leg that you had on the hip should be able to get around their back and hooked in. I forsee a lot of ways this can go awry, but assuming you keep it tight I think this is something definitely worth developing.
On Monday, before class started, Jazz (brownbelt) asked me to roll around a bit no-gi. We started in my guard and went half-pace for awhile. He had relatively little trouble passing and proceeding with the smashing, but I was able to escape side control and get back to my knees, or back in his guard without too much issue.
He went on show me an incredibly basic, but handy way of moving to someones back with them in your guard. The idea is to pull the person towards you with your legs, and get both your arms under their armpits and clasped behind their back with the standard grip. Once you have this locked in, place 1 foot on the hip, and drop the other foot to the ground, and elbow escape out as much as you can. Getting up on your hand helps with base if they try to smash you to the ground, and from there, the leg that you had on the hip should be able to get around their back and hooked in. I forsee a lot of ways this can go awry, but assuming you keep it tight I think this is something definitely worth developing.
