1st day back

So I went back to gym to roll today. Felt very nervous with my elbow. When I rolled with Mike I noticed my left arm doesn't feel as strong.

One thing we worked on was trying to control from the guard:

Tripod

• From the open guard
• Grab their lead leg
• Same side leg goes into their hip
• Opposite arm grabs their arm (same side that your leg is on)
• Other leg hooks behind their ankle
• Extend leg and pull arm and ankle to off balance

Seems like a very good position to try and control. Has openings for the x-guard, omoplatas and triangles.

Guillotines

Worked on the ten finger guillotine.

• Bend of wrist in neck
• Crunch body and have chest sit on their head / neck
• Grab arm that's in
• Sit to the side and pull up

Had problems w/ my guillotines when to go w/ which grip.

Other notes

• Mike mentioned that I need to work combinations. Often I find myself going and working for one set up rather than working from an arm drag to guillotine and back to guillotine.
• Key is to get your opponent to react
• Gotta focus in on my guard and controlling opponents.
• Another thing to think about is not sitting and waiting for a reaction but making your opponent react.
• Focus on driving your opponent's arms into them when working from open guard.