Training Journal 5.13.08

It’s been a while since I’ve been this tired. Phew.

Morning workout didn’t go off quite as planned because my hip was still killing me from Niimi-san’s punch last night. I got a light core workout done in the apartment, broke a bit of a sweat, but nothing too substantial.

Amazon taught a few neat techniques that I’m going to try to work into my arsenal, starting from an open guard with both feet on the opponent’s hips. Break their grips on your pants and really stretch them out. If they start to walk back, bring your feet down behind their feet, sit up, and punch forward with both hands (while holding their sleeves) – they should fall backwards, and you should be able to pull yourself up into seated base. If they stay there, you can switch grips and go for that open-guard kick sweep (the one where you’re on your side, you’ve got one hand gripping the opposite-side sleeve, the other hand holding their foot, one leg in their solar plexus and the other sweeps their other foot to kick them over), which in turn transitions nicely into De La Riva guard if they defend, or you can do some crazy elevator-sweep shit like Joachim Hansen vs. Eddie Alvarez.

Looks like I have to go to practice tomorrow so I can translate for some American dude who called up yesterday and can’t speak Japanese. Huh.

pat m.