BJJ 3/31

5:30 Shannone BBCF
Passing the Guard:
Top things I learned today are
1. Quick
Keep head into stomach, when put your hands in their armpits, keep thumbs in, inch your way down until you can't go further (and your knee is correctly positioned right in their tailbone) before you post up and push away to break the guard. The first part can be slow, but the knee,push,post away has to be quick. Shannone seemed to weasel his way down calmly and then bam he was out. I keep getting caught up in triangle because too slow.

2. Keep their hips down
The knee in the tailbone won't be effective if you are not controlling their hips. Otherwise, when you push away they raise up over the knee and you start all over again. You lost your leverage.

3.Passing
There is a pass here once the guard is open and you're trying to get one of their knees down - two ways
1. After you put your knee over their knee you also hook your opposite foot (this will help get your other leg over when the time comes)
2. Or go the other direction by pushing their leg into their chest - grab their opposite shoulder and push their leg into them, post them up a little if needed, keep leaning in and then start shifting around their leg. You're passing their leg.
Don't forget to hook your forearm and hand on the leg that you are holding down to pass...for two reasons; one is to control the leg, the other is to defend them grabbing and straightening that arm

To defend against triangle, spin around with it - toward the arm that is caught. Be careful to be pulling that arm back so they don't develop it into an arm bar by using your spinning against you and pushing your head out of the triangle.

Control
Don't forget to push away the hands, pull the elbow, stop the problem!!!! It seems so simple and stupid, but it just didn't occur to me.