Showing posts with label half guard escapes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label half guard escapes. Show all posts

Thursday, January 9, 2014

More sparring



The weapon will not make you safe. It is a tool you can use. –Rory Miller



A solid hour and a half rolling with Kelly. I gave her her choice of gi/no gi, and she picked gi.

I was worried about my right shoulder, which I seem to have wrenched while I was playing with the cop this morning- but apparently it is on that fine line where it twinges a lot while I'm going about my life yet I can mostly ignore it in the heat of battle.

Kelly tapped me three or four times for every one that I got on her, but the ones I got on her were omoplatas- which makes me happy, since I don't go for those very often and rarely get them when I do. Kelly's shoulders are rubbery. I had to resort to Cindy's (mean!) variation, where you latch your arms around the opponent's head/shoulder and pull up.

Kelly has become one of the few people who can reliably get out of my half guard- using the same trick that Peter has been using (Peter being one other of those very few). She was kind enough to show me how to counter it.  ;)