The Great Tartovski

Escape from rear mount:

Arm bar from escape position.

Guard to rear mount transition:

Choke from guard:

Side mount to full mount transition 1:

Grab your own foot and use your arm to pull it across the opponent stomach without touching – make sure you are high enough on their body to achieve this: shrimp to get high if you need to.

Side mount to full mount transition 2:

No niceties – Get high up on your opponent so they can't block/get you in half guard. Knee pushes on their solar plexus as you slide it over.

Counters to both: Get your knees up to stop them easily mounting. (need description of leg position here)

Gi Choke from mount 1:

Open their gi up. Slide your hand to the opposite side of their neck (ie your right hand goes across your body to the left side of their neck as you look at it) and grab the gi collar as far back as you can, practically BEHIND their neck – thumb towards them, palm facing away. Slide your other arm beneath the first arm and mirror the grip on the other side. Lean forwards to put your weight on them (head on the floor) and scissor arms to put choke on.

Gi Choke from mount 2:

Open their gi up. Slide your hand to the opposite side of their neck (ie your right hand goes across your body to the left side of their neck as you look at it) and grab the gi collar as far back as you can, practically BEHIND their neck – thumb towards them, palm facing away.

Armbar from mount:

Escape from side mount 1:

Get your arms underneath your opponent, your forearms against his throat. Bridge and shrimp to create distance (facing towards their legs) wrap their near leg with your nearest arm (ie don't reach between their legs) and grab your own wrist to secure the hold. Circle round, pulling opponents leg with you until he flips over – then side mount.

Escape from side mount 2:

As above, but if opponent bases out to stop you flipping them, take their back: (need to learn to do this properly, but essentially you make sure your outside leg is tucked in behind their nearside leg before you mount, then tuck your nearest leg in between too).

Choke from side mount:

(scarf choke – use head to control arm to gain position)

Counter:

Sweep from guard if opponent stands 1:

Keep feet locked behind opponent, use your arm to pull your head to their ankle, then push hips UP, then THROUGH the same knee.

For extra force, use your other hand by placing it palm down by your head (fingers facing your own shoulder) and push.

Sweep from guard if opponent stands 2:

Grab them to hold the head/body down (break their posture), then hold the wrists/sleeves of both arms. Unlock your feet and place both on their hips. Move one foot so it's behind their knee and leave the other foot on their hip. On that same side, let go of their wrist, and grab their ankle. Now push with the leg on the hip, and pull with everything else to put them down.

NB: to avoid this – step back when they try to grab your foot!!

Sweep from guard if opponent stands 3 (if they step back):

Use the hand that was going to their ankle to grab their (opposite) arm, effectively swapping your grip from left – right.

Use the now free hand to go to the ankle on that side (ie the one that didn't step back), then unhook your foot from behind their knee, and twist to use it sweep their other leg whilst you pull with your hand, and push with the foot on their hip.

Arm bar from guard if opponent stands:

Grab them to hold the head/body down (break their posture), then hold/control their arms.

"Walk" your legs up their back so you are high up and squeezing their arms in, then twist to the side and hook the free leg over their head (lock it down over their head) and move your other leg over their shoulder. Pull their arm down and raise hips to put on arm bar.

Throws/takedowns:

1) Classic neck throw i.e. one hand on their wrist/gi sleeve, other arm round the back of their neck, step in and roll them over your hip.(what is the name of that?!)

2) Double leg take down:

Shoot in LOW, one knee between their legs – keep head UP. move back leg to outside of opponents leg, then move other leg to outside as well – LIFT!

Reversal of DLTD:

As your opponent shoots in, sprawl and put bodyweight down on their back. Wrap arm around their neck, hold own wrist with other arm, step close to them and lift to get a guillotine choke.

Counter to above:

Grab their wrist to create a breathing space, use your other arm across their shoulder to gain control. Move your feet to the opposite side your head is on, forming a T with their feet. Use your knee to pop their knee, and pull them to the floor (you on top!). still holding their wrist, use the other arm as an armbar across their throat (grip use their shoulder as a lever). Once they release their arm, force it to the floor bent at the elbow – keep your elbow tight to their hip. Get your other arm under theirs to grab your own writs to get the lock. Now step over their head to spread the weight (keep it bearing down on them) and PULL to put lock on.

My first real season!!
I can't believe it was 3 months from checking out the class to being able to start training - I blame a new job.

Passing the guard technique:

Push on the chest/armpits, stand up, kneel & force knee through legs – kneel on their thigh to control their leg. Lay bodyweight down, and control their head

Slide over to pass guard.

Reversal:

As they kneel and force leg through – bridge and roll to get the mount.

First ever BJJ session!!

The workout was just a warm up really. Can't remember all the detials but roughly:

50 Jumping Jacks (both normal, and with crossing legs in front of each other)
20 Squats
20 side squats (lunging to the side)
20 kneeling leg extensions (kneel on the floor, extend leg backwards)
20 Kneeling leg extensions to the side (as above, to the side)
20 situps
20 pushups

Then of course all the work in the session grappling with resistence etc. Certainly worked my core muscles alot.

We covered:
Figure 4 lock/americana from the mount

Force opponents hands to their chest, then use bodyweight to force Right arm to floor in an L-shape (pointing up) - hold their wrist down with your right hand, slide your left under their arm, grip your own wrist – pull up to put lock on.

Armbar from mount:

Like I can remember? I dunno, control the arm and do an armbar…

Just a little work out to check how my rib is doing:

30 Push ups
30 Squats
30 Jack Knives

x 2.

No rib pain, so I guess i'm probably ok to start training again, huzzah!!

Finally got fed up of not doing anything, so went to the gym to see what I could do. Bit of a surreal work-out as it was "anything i fancy, less chest".

(as always, firstly a 50% warm up set before each work set)
Squat: 60 x 5* (extra warm up set), 2min rest, 80kg x 5
Dumbell Shoulder Press: 15 x 11, then later, 17.5 x 8
Hamstring Curls: 42.5 x 5
Seated Row: 80 x 4
Calf Raise: 160lbs x 11
Dumbell upright row: 20 x 3, then later, 17.5 x 6

Notes:
Squats: Thought I'd go for an extra warm up set, to see if it would help. Felt good, so I went for a high weight work-set. was really 4reps + 1 with really bad form. still, got the weight up there in the end. must work on form!

Shoulder press: jsut trying to sort out the right weight. I think next time i'll go with 10kg warm up, 20kg work set.

Hamstrings: A nightmare again. I'm going to drop the weight next time and work on my form. I did notice though that when struggling i was feeling it in my calves, not my hamstrings, so that might explain it.

Seated Row: Had to stop as I was feeling pain in my chest from the stretching. Other than that, all good I think. keep weight, try for more reps.

Calf raise: I'm amazed at how much weight i did. will try 90lbs warm up, 180 work set next time.

Dumbell raise: Struggled with my grip on this. i was trying to keep them horizontal at all times, so i worked the forearms as well. will try 17.5kg work weight again, concentrating on full movement.