After warmups, we started with armbar from mount. First, put your hands on opponent's sternum, one arm between his, the other arm going around outside of the arm you want to break. We'll call it the right arm today, for example's sake. Your left arm will be circling around the outside of his right arm, with your left hand planted on top of your right hand, on top of his sternum. Now, turn to your right, getting off of your right knee and onto your right foot. Bring that foot right up to his ribcage. Bring your left knee right up to the right side of his head. Next, lean forward, putting your weight on your hands and right foot while swinging your left foot around and over his head. You should keep low, with your opponent feeling your weight so he doesn't wiggle free. When your left foot touches down on the left side of his head, sit down on the mat just behind his right shoulder. Hook one of your arms around his right forearm, catching it in the crook of your elbow. Keep that tight, very tight, to your body. Use your non-hooking hand to hold his forearm, keeping his thumb pointed straight up. Now sloooooowly, lean backwards. Think pulling with your back, not your arms. Keep his thumb pointed up, squeeze your knees together, don't cross your feet and he will tap.
Next was a defense after the armbar was sunk. Now we'll be the guy on bottom, with our opponent trying to break our right arm. Once he's spun around the arm and is sitting down, reach up through his legs with your left arm and grab his left lapel with your left hand, using a thumb-in grip. Pull that arm tight, so when he sits back, he has to pull your weight with him, which will also relieve some pressure on your right elbow. Once he's pulled you up off of the mat a little, switch your hips and come up to your knees. Pinch his right knee in between your left elbow and left knee, and keep pressure on his left knee with your head, pushing it down towards the mat. You should have enough leverage here to pull your right arm out, and you can spin to side control.
#TODO(chops): Post video here (this one might be hard to find)
After that, we rolled. Although it was only my third class, they let me roll. First I was matched up with the blue belt. I tried to stay relaxed and not spaz out. As far as that was my only goal for rolling yesterday, I feel like I was successful. I know I wasn't very relaxed, but I consciously made myself slow down and breath at several points. I mainly focused on trying to get posture while in guard. After the blue belt, I rolled once with each of the two other white belts who were there. I felt kind of bad because the last round was with the smallest guy there, and towards the end of kind of muscled him around a little. I was too tired to do much else, so I basically lifted him off of me, and put him down with me in side control. Once I was done (sadly, only three 5 minute rounds wiped me out), the blue belt pulled me aside and showed me a few things I was doing wrong, which I thought was really cool. He also talked to me a little bit about BJJ philosophy, and how to approach rolling with higher belts. All in all, it was a great class. I can't wait to go back.
(And I promise, I'll put some videos in here soon.)
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