Technique: Attacks from the Mount

3/21/2011~3/25/2011


This week at El Dorado Hills Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, we focused on different attacks from the mount position. Getting to the mount position is equivalent to four points in a match after you have secured the position for about three seconds. There are many different attacks from the mount when you are wearing the gi. Here are some of the basic, high percentage attacks!


Gi Submissions:
- key lock: Isolate arm from body, hold their wrist & hold your wrist.
- collar choke: 1st hand is knuckles past trap. Other hand comes over to grip the shoulder.
- armlock: They defend choke & turn onto a side. Keep legs tight (S-guard) around body.


No-Gi Submissions:
- key lock: Isolate arm from body, hold their wrist & hold your wrist. 
- choke: Modified ezekiel choke.
- armlock: They turn onto one side, attack the arm (keep forearm attached to your chest).

Eliot Kelly

www.edhbjj.com

"Focusing on your strengths is just as important as focusing on your weaknesses!"

Technique: X-Guard

2/28/2011 ~ 3/4/2011

     This week at El Dorado Hills Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, we looked at different open guard positions and how you could use them to off-balance your partner. We learned that being able to use your foot as a hook played a big part in doing this. If the guard passers objective is to maintain their balance as they advance their position, then the guard players objective would be to off-balance your partner and improve their position. The X-Guard is a great way to off-balance your partner by getting underneath them and pushing your partners legs out (as if you want them to do the splits).

X-Guard Basics:
One hook behind the knee. Another hook infront of the hip. Leg hooking the hip is on hop. Arm closer to the free leg should scoop the free leg all the way up to your shoulder. (Try putting your scoop hand behind your head to ensure that you have fully secured the leg). Re-position your hips directly under your partner.

Sweeps:
1. Roll onto shoulder towards the direction your partner is facing. Finish with knee on belly.
2. Adjust hook behind the knee to ankle. Roll onto shoulder in the opposite direction from above.
3. Roll onto shoulder towards the direction your partner is facing. Use the foot hooked behind the knee and post off the mat to stand up. Stand all the way up while holding your partners leg.

Submissions:
- Knee on belly to armlock.
- Reverse armlock if they grab the lapel/head for balance.
- Knee bar (make sure to position hips directly in front of the knee)

Eliot Kelly 

www.edhbjj.com

El Dorado Hills Brazilian Jiu Jitsu

"Garra, Força, Respeito e Persistência"

Technique: Attacks & Counters from the Guard

Feb. 21 ~  Feb. 25  

This week at El Dorado Hills Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, we focused on three main attacks from the guard: Arm Lock, Omoplata, and Triangle. These three submissions are Jiu-Jitsu attacks that you have probably seen on television, and are very effective and applicable ways to submit your opponent. We also made the comparison of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with the game of chess. Getting into certain positions in Jiu-Jitsu is much like laying out the chess board with your pieces in specific locations. In chess we recognize the layout with our eyes, but in Jiu-Jitsu we need to recognize it with our bodies. 

1. Armlock:

    Trap the arm ~ Step on hip to turn (same side as trapped arm) (Bodies should be     

     perpendicular) ~ Leg  on hip comes over the head 

    - Counter: Pull the arm out. (Rotation of the hips and shoulders)

2. Omoplata:

     Get bodies Parallel ~ Trap the far hip as you sit up ~ elevate hips 

    - Counter: Posture up to face partner (get back in the guard)

(Blue & Above): Attack Wrist 

3. Triangle:

     Swing free leg UP, OVER, and DOWN ~ Grab your ankle ~ Get perpendicular ~ Squeeze  

      knees

     - Counter: Elevate the head and create a bigger triangle

Seven move sequence:

Armlock ~ Pull arm out ~ Omoplata ~ posture up ~ Triangle ~ Posture & push ~ Armlock

Eliot Kelly 

www.edhbjj.com

"When you get someone into check and they move their piece on the board, 

you need recognize a change and find another way to get them into check."