BJJ 5/4

The BattleBorn location is a satellite of Gary Grate's school so I've always wanted to check out classes over at Gary's school, meet more people, train with different folks, and have more options in my schedule. They have a women's class Mondays @ 5:15 so I went.
5:15 Women's Marc
So, I got there a little early and I met the instructor for Mondays, Marc, and I thought he was really great. You can tell that he really enjoys the teaching experience. I met Jordan and Rita and the 3 of us worked together.
My notes from that class:
Shrimp - After the shrimp, pull that knee up - this way when you put the heel down it is already in the perfect place for the next shrimp. I was straightening both legs.
The sweep - Wrist control cross body into a bear hug, grab their lat, scoot hips opposite a little bit, underhook their leg and swing the (straight) leg in a big circle to sweep them that direction. Your leg will be straight down in a line from your body so they will pass right over it. Think breakdancing windmill :)

6"00 Fundamentals Cody
The 2nd half of a series he was doing on Half Guard. He seemed to say that he was coming from a place where he wanted us to think about the options available to us from this position. So, I can only remember about 3 things to do from that position, but when practiced I noticed that I wasn't thinking, "What's the one thing I know how to do now", instead, I was thinking, "What sorts of small changes do I want to make from here" so that class expanded my consciousness a bit. At the end you roll with a lot of different people, once you are on top, rest 15 seconds, then you're on bottom. So, you get to work both sides.
Sometimes you learn more things at once than you can write down, sometimes just one major thing sticks with you. From this class the major thing that stuck with me is that when I was on the bottom of half guard to NOT allow them to control me flat to my back...that I almost always can work up onto the side of one hip and from there I have options (the options we drilled in class). So I learned, and more importantly, actually FELT, an important positional key. Once, by getting up on that hip and working I was almost able to bring my other knee up high enough to get out to guard. This made me take note that I need to become more flexible and stronger in that higher range of leg motion.