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Coach: Alli

Partner: Don

We did omoplata and escapes from omoplata

We started by getting our partner into the omoplata from armbar or triangle

1. Go for closed guard armbar
2. Break them down
3. Pull their head and arms down and cross legs behind their head
4. Push their head and bring leg over their head
5. They pull out to escape armbar/triangle
6. You go for omoplata by bringing leg behind their trapped arm

We then worked on escaping either stepping over or rolling out

1. Bottom person puts you in omoplata
2. You roll and sprawl for side control

B. 1. You get put into omoplata position

2. You step over the bottom person and hold side control

Then we practiced finished the submission

1. Get to omoplata
2. Pull their pant leg and belt to flatten them
3. Make sure arm is twisted and hand is on closest thigh
4. Pressure upwards to submit

We practiced straightening the leg and getting back control

1. Get omoplata position
2. Straighten leg holding arm
3. They pull arm out
4. Put left hand under their head
5. Grab their opposite thigh with right hand
6. Roll them over and get back control with feet hooks

We rolled the last 15 minutes of class:

This session is a blur for me because I must have rolled 5 -6 times being top and bottom

A lot of people escaped me when I would go for the legs behind the head. I think it is because I didn’t have them broken down where I could lock legs behind their head.

I was lapel choked once and had to tap out. I escaped to side control a few times on people.

Open mat: I only rolled with James today. He started open guard. I tried to move to side control, he tried to choke me with his knee and my lapel but I saw it coming this time. The first 4 minutes was a match of gripping lapels and sleeves and slowly moving around, nothing really happened. Eventually he swept me somehow and got full mount and a finishing choke. We then rolled the last 1 minute and he got an omoplata on me. He told me after the round that he was waiting for me to try to roll out, even though I didn’t, he was ready for it and I tried to roll out of the position he showed me and he had it locked down. Don asked if I could have stepped over and James said I could have and he would have had to move around a bit if I did that.

I was really tired at that point and decided to leave the gym for the night.

One thing I hit successfully: I got an escape from a person’s closed guard by splitting the peach and swinging their legs away to side control.

One thing that failed: I failed to get any sort of submission on anyone during out rolls in class, people kept pulling out and I couldn’t break them down with lapel grips and behind the head pulling

One thing I will try next class: I will try to break people’s posture down better next class