6/15 Lynn's rough notes - will clean up later

6/15
5:15
high mount and a choke
keep your hand pushing down on their head while you are moving up into high mount
Then weasel your hand in cross and get deep in their collar, use the other hand to get your thumb in and grip real tight, sweep that arm over their face for a choke. give them a shake to open up the chin and then pull your elbows back (you'll lean forward and post on your head)

6:00
A choke from NorthSouth. The arm that is underhook sweep around the outside of their shoulder and grab deep in their collar. the other hand reaches in with the thumb and grab a fistful of gi, then rotate away from your thumb - using should weight and sprawling on them. clear their chin and press your elbow down into the ground. One arm is pulling down the backside of their body and the other arm is pressing elbow into floor with bodyweight. I could sort of get this on Tim. I didn't stand a chance of getting it on the big guy...I think that my hands were too close together too far around the back of his neck - so I think if the person is WAY bigger than you, you can actually get too deep.

Tim taught me: (was a super cool, tough, helpful, nice guy)
-snatch your leg back (careful not to hyperextend the knee...I almost did this twice, very scary)
-if their head is on the outside, crossface up and away while pulling your leg back
-if their head is on the inside, push down on the back of their head
-I could tell he was working his open/butterfly guard a lot
-showed me the difference between me being squared up and me having one leg behind when I'm in their butterfly guard
-when they have your sleeves and their feet in your armpits, you can step on one of their arms to get them to let go
-if you're getting into sweep trouble from guard you can jump your legs out and over sort of disengaging. You haven't lost much and you haven't been swept.

7:00 sweeps from half guard
my friend Brian came to class.
One is lock up the leg, underhook the arm and the leg, pull all your limbs upward first and then over. If up and over isn't working (or they post that arm up there) you can also push your knees down to the mat dumping them to the side.

One is where you get a knee in and underhook that same side. You can extend to get their arm in front of you and then post up on your elbow to reach over for a handful of lat and pull them tight to you. scoot your but out and get up on knees, then pull leg out to swing over for mount. If they drive into you here is where you drop your shoulder and sweep them over doing the breakdance thing with your underside leg to use it for momentum and then get it out of the way.
Gary of course showed how you have a lot of other options if any of these things don't work out.