So my home city of Brisbane QLD just received the worst floods in 35 years. Scores of people dead and many thousands without power in the middle of a capital city! Brazil was hit even worse, mass landslides. Luckily the flood for Brisbane was 1 metre lower than expected. For my gym this made all the difference and it escaped any water damage.
I’ve noticed a trend in lessons that I hadn’t noticed before. At my gym we do a lot of lessons based on submission but very little on passing or escaping. I think the ratio is the wrong way around. To me, what’s the point of the submission if I’m struggling to assert any type of control over my opponent. I know the principles you hear of defend/attack but still I need to spend more time escaping and passing before I can get to submission attempts.
That being said I’ve been working on Arm Bars the last couple of weeks. I’m trying to work one that involves set ups off successful scissor sweeps or failed scissor sweeps. I just need to drill it out more to feel comfortable attempting it. I’ll probably also start working on a combination from the flower sweep in closed guard.
Dan
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