Dad and Zach on Recumbents

3/30/26 Day 5

The teacher was Andy, and my partner was Gauge.  

We started by putting our right hand on their left hip from half guard. You come across their face and under their chin and grab their gi at their left shoulder. From there you shrimp to the left(you want to face the side they are trying to pass on) and you put your left knee on their right hip and push to pull right foot outside and push them away and get full guard with both legs wrapped around them. That was position one.

Position two we did the same thing then you put palms together on their left shoulder and you pull down to the chest. From here you put your left foot on the inside of their right knee and you swivel them around to the right and push and mount them.

Position three , you do the same as one then you get the left arm under their right arm and left knee/ leg/foot pushing down and you kind of foot ball swim them over top of you and you wrestle out to back mount them.  

This is what we worked on today. 

At the end we did drills where we lined up and had one person on top and one on the bottom and a timer for 1 minute running , the bottom person tried to escape using any sweep/move we learned, and the top tried to give some resistance depending on the skill of the other person.  Then after the minute is up you switch positions for another minute, we did this maybe 4-5 times. I did this twice before I had to stop. I did some ok sweeps on the first guy and he seemed happy about it. The second guy was heavier than I am and bigger.  I had a lot of trouble with him and gassed out.  He just laid on me and it was like I couldn’t do much.  

So when I was taking a break for the last 3 or so rounds of 2 minutes, I watched the brown belt Andy doing the moves on the big man. He was doing the escape and going into full guard, it seemed easy for him.  I think I saw him do the football swim thing and pass behind him once too.  I tried to understand how he could move the big man unlike I could.  At the end I thanked andy for the class and thanked Gauge for the practice and help.  

Gauge is a brewer of coffee for a business(he smelled heavily of coffee) he doesn’t want to do that forever he said, I didn’t really open up about much.  He is a blue belt and he taught me to clamp my hands behind their head with my arm under their arm and put my chest down and if I raise my head it will put more pressure on them.  He was very agile and could get around me really well. When he was pushing up with the grasp , it was hurting my neck/throat.  It forces you to flip over though and that is interesting to me.  I like the move a lot.  He showed me what a toe lock was. 

There was a guy who I have seen before on the sideline and he was telling me to watch the right hand on this move because people will fall on it and hurt your wrist.  Just watch out for it.