Why I shouldn't be a blue belt

[Wing Woo Gar99 2]

We had a guy come in to our gym. Called P.asha Stoyla. Phenomenal grappler.

And all he did was the three options from headquarters. Knee cut, knee slice? And passing both legs.

Smoked everyone.

So it can be done in a way that is basically unstoppable.

Do you have video of this? I would very much like to see this in action.

 

[drop bear2]

Do you have video of this? I would very much like to see this in action.

I had a look. Nothing sorry.

 

[Stuarto113]

I got my 2nd stripe on my purple belt yesterday. What's funny is I've had the mat time for over a month, and every day I've been thinking, "Is today the day I get my stripe?" And it didn't happen.

Yesterday, my Professor gave me the same negative feedback I've been getting for the past 2-3 years. "Why do you keep going into the guard? Go around the guard!" In my defense, I'm trying to set up a knee cut. But probably the wrong pass for the situation. Anyway...

I thought to myself, I'm stilling messing that up. I probably need to fix that before I get my stripe. I'll start working on that. But no way I'm getting a stripe until I do.

Then I got my stripe. The one night I'm not thinking I'm ready.

Congrats on your stripe skribs!

 

[Wing Woo Gar99 2]

I had a look. Nothing sorry.

Ok, I know you have a lot of competitive youngsters and hard chargers at your gym so I was surprised by this one guy able to get through like that with just the same 3 techniques. Pretty impressive.

 

[drop bear2]

Ok, I know you have a lot of competitive youngsters and hard chargers at your gym so I was surprised by this one guy able to get through like that with just the same 3 techniques. Pretty impressive.

Pasha is a legitimate dude.

 

[skribs164 184]

Taught my first adult no-gi class today. Professor was at another location today. My only instructions for the class were "knee shield".

I'll be honest. I don't play much knee shield. Well, I get into knee shield a lot, but I use it to transition to other guards (usually deep half). So when I got to the gym, I googled, "knee shield attacks". Ended up using 2 that I found (back take, a john wayne type of sweep) and then a guillotine. The guillotine was if the opponent underhooks your top arm.

When I demonstrated that one, my uke (who is a very close personal friend) gave me a weird look. Said something along the lines of, "I wouldn't go for an underhook on the top arm, I'd be trying to smash the legs."

I told him, "If I'm going for the underhook, most people are going to pummel for one."

He just shrugged, but went ahead with the drill.

Later on, I rolled with him in the second round of positional sparring. Within 3 seconds I baited him into going for the underhook that he said he wouldn't go for.

 

[skribs164 184]

Taught my first adult no-gi class today. Professor was at another location today. My only instructions for the class were "knee shield".

I'll be honest. I don't play much knee shield. Well, I get into knee shield a lot, but I use it to transition to other guards (usually deep half). So when I got to the gym, I googled, "knee shield attacks". Ended up using 2 that I found (back take, a john wayne type of sweep) and then a guillotine. The guillotine was if the opponent underhooks your top arm.

When I demonstrated that one, my uke (who is a very close personal friend) gave me a weird look. Said something along the lines of, "I wouldn't go for an underhook on the top arm, I'd be trying to smash the legs."

I told him, "If I'm going for the underhook, most people are going to pummel for one."

He just shrugged, but went ahead with the drill.

Later on, I rolled with him in the second round of positional sparring. Within 3 seconds I baited him into going for the underhook that he said he wouldn't go for.

What's funny about this, there's three different folks that gave me this quizzical look this week. The first was obviously this story, the guy is a competition 4-stripe blue belt.

The second was my Professor yesterday. I told him the three techniques I did from knee shield. When I mentioned guillotine, he was like, "from knee shield????" Then I showed him the setup and he was like, "Oh, okay."

Today, I was teaching the fundamentals class, while a brown belt was helping me. (He runs it Mondays and Wednesdays and I help him, and we switch roles on Fridays). We're doing take-downs this week. I started with single leg, then how to follow-up with double leg, but the last variation I showed was a high-C into a double leg. When I said "high-C", he gave me a funny look.

He's like, "Do you even know this move?"

"Yeah, I hit it in a live roll."

"You did it once and you're going to teach it?"

"Yup."

 

[skribs164 184]

I did tap a purple belt once with this technique. He was knee-on-belly, I let one rip. He kept digging, I let another rip, then he tapped.

Yesterday I don't know what was wrong with me, but at one point I cleared the mat.

@dunc

Today I was the purple belt, that a white belt tapped by farting.

 

[skribs164 184]

Today Professor was demonstrating a guillotine choke on me. He told me what reactions to give him as part of the setup for the technique. But because his arm and ribs were clamped over my ears, all I heard was a very muffled "wah wah wah wha wah".

I could tell he was getting frustrated so I just said, "I can't hear anything you're saying!"

He let go, readjusted his grip to make sure my ears weren't covered, and then kept going.

 

[skribs164 184]

Today I put a white belt into a back-mount-crucifix. That's the nastiest position I've ever seen.

 

[skribs164 184]

New rule at my gym: if one of the white belts lets me get them in back mount, I'm allowed to flick their ear until they figure out how to escape.

 

[drop bear2]

New rule at my gym: if one of the white belts lets me get them in back mount, I'm allowed to flick their ear until they figure out how to escape.

I had a day like that. We were playing king of the hill. Escaping side control. And everyone brought it. The gnarlyest top pressure shoulder of authority. The works.

I was a 20 minute session of seing if we could do the worst possible grind we can think of