Deep Butterfly Half for Graham & Pete

[fuga]

44? Still a child. I turn 48 this year.

j/k

One of the most challenging things in any martial art is figuring out to how to train smarter as we age. I train between 3-5 times per week with two days of hard sparring, one day only stick fighting and another day that is largely drilling. Then one day to lift.

One of the bigger turns I have made in my training is to give less of a shit about giving up a tap to a lower belt and instead to be rolling for development of specific aspects of my game with a focus on being as smooth as possible. In other words, I have changed the quality of my rolls so there is less wear and tear on the body.

[GrahamB]

Lightweight final from the Pans. Twice jt does a hybrid spider x guard sweep I've not seen before - love it.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=824170437655106

[fuga]

I've never seen that sweep either. How many gyms will be looking at that this week?

Interesting to start seeing more non-Brazilians in the finals and winning. JT looked on game.

[GrahamB]

I tried that position today - got my guard passed straight away! Guess I should try new stuff out on white belts, not black belts LOL

[middleway]

JT is so frikking good fairplay.

Anyone see Victors really strange lapel guard? even the refs didnt know what to do with it! haha.

[fuga]

How about the Terra v Malfacine match with the restart that essentially gave him a leg drag?

[GrahamB]

Yeah, I agree, the restart was shady.

[GrahamB]

[GrahamB]

Dang!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHtDyFb ... e=youtu.be

[fuga]

We drilled both JT's sweep and Malfacine's leg drag to back take in class last night. LOL

[GrahamB]

We drilled both JT's sweep and Malfacine's leg drag to back take in class last night. LOL

I hope your coach showed how to get the referee to restart you in the perfect position too, LOL.

[GrahamB]

Dantien Lock - now you can submit your opponents in the true internal way!

http://youtu.be/LWNTRsZl7xQ

[middleway]

That's actually a bit different to how Victor Does it. Victors isn't so much of a toe hold it is a strange twisting ankle lock thing.





He taught this to us at his last seminar, I honestly cant think of any way out of it when its on. without just allowing your ankle to snap then fighting on broken lol.

[GrahamB]

Yeah, that is different - the toes aren't caught in the Victor version, so it's not a toe hold.

Escape? All I'm thinking is that you'd have to bring your other (right in that video) foot over the top and break their arm grip by pushing hard on their bicep, but it would probably too slow... and your ankle would be toast before you broke their grip.

[middleway]

Bringing your right leg up actually puts the lock on more. Especially from that top position he is showing there. Its really on or off too, no middle ground to recognize when to tap. Victor says he actually normally goes easy on it even in comp cause if you whack it on then destroying the ankle is unavoidable. Really clever lock.

The interesting thing is he gets it from anywhere too.