Kurt Osiander's Armbar & Triangle Defense

Armbar Defense


Triangle Defense

"Bro, you fucked up a long time ago!"

Featuring Kurt Osiander

Open Mat

Today I went to open mat with Glenn and Justin. I don't usually go to Friday's open mat but wanted to put in some training time before I drown white water rafting over the weekend. :P

Anyway, I tapped out Glenn with a Bow & Arrow choke and an arm bar. Glenn's was sure working his cardio and has got mass heart. Justin tapped me twice with an Ezekiel choke and choke from the back. I wonder if I'm focusing so much on offensive that my defensive is slipping.

I was working with Glenn on some submissions. We were working on the triangle and Mark stopped us. I was teaching Glenn to grab the back of the neck, but Mark said it was unnecessary if you have the correct angle. He said to have no space where you clamp your knee and be at an angle where you can look into your opponent's ear. The triangle was a lot tighter, and this technique is a lot more applicable for a person with short legs like me.

I worked with Mark (purple belt) on some takedown techniques. I was never able to successfully take him down and was taken down several times. The two that still stick in my mind are:

•  Variant of Drop and Roll on shoulder
• start with grabbing your opponent's lapel
• stiff arm and lock their shoulder
• once you have this setup you can roll onto your other shoulder and basically roll your opponent
• i did not find this drop and roll as easy as the one David (purple belt) showed me, but this one is probably more effective if done right
• Arm grab to back to trip your opponent backwards 
•  when your opponent starts to go for your lapel, you swat their hand and do a bicep grab.
• at this point you have a very good opportunity to grab their back, however if you don't the arm that grab their becip now moves over to the opposite shoulder and you square up with them and trip their closet leg
• if done right you can end up in knee on belly when the opponent falls

Another valuable tip that Mark gave me was something to help me escape from an opponent's side control. He saw that I had problems replacing my knee when he had me in side control. The key is to move your legs to the side then hip out quickly and replace your knee. Moving your legs out creates the space needed to replace your knee. If done too slowing your opponent will close the space back again.

Guard Pass Where You Control Opponent's Arm

Today we learned the "double under" guard pass:

1. First start out by controlling the opponent's hip with one hand while pressing down on their stomach/chest holding the lapel with the other hand.
2. Step up with the foot on the side that is pressing down on the stomach/chest.
3. Let go of some of the lapel and tuck in your elbow.
4. Then step up with the other foot.
5. Stand straight up and let go of more of their lapel while making sure to tuck your elbow.
6. Now reach behind your back with the other hand (that was controlling their hip) and open their guard.
7. Once their guard is open, use combat stance (tuck your elbows) and get close to their hips. Or immediately go to the next step.
8. Roll both of your arms under their leg and secure this position.
9. Control their hips by moving it on top of your knees.
10. Cross face one arm with thumb inside opponent's lapel.
11. Sprawl and pass.
12. Make sure to secure the side control position.

Justin worked with me on another guard pass. This one was very similar to the one above, except the twist was controlling the opponent's arm by tucking it under your "straight" arm.

1. Eventually, grab one of your opponent's arms and then tuck it under a straight arm.
2. Step up on the side of the arm that is being controlled. Since you are controlling the opponent's arm on that side, they can not grab your leg.
3. Post up with the other leg, step back, and then reach back with your hand to open the guard. Note that the hand that reaches back is the one that was the straight arm. The other hand is still controlling your opponent's arm, but make sure to keep your elbow tucked.
4. Once the guard is opened, continue to pass as usual (i.e. sprawl).

I rolled with a really tall guy named Cyrus. He's got to be at least 6' 5" and 250 lbs. I almost got him in a rear-naked choke but time ran out. One thing Professor Dominic showed him that I thought I should keep in mind if I ever got caught like that was: if your opponent has one if your lapels from behind, the side you want to escape (by placing your back on the mat) is opposite of the side the arm holding onto the lapel.

Frustrated...

Yesterday's Advanced class was very frustrating. I felt like a total "newb" rolling with the blue belts. Well, let me go over the techniques we learned in class first:

1.  An escape from Turtle Position, where the guy is on top in North-South Position with their arms around your waist. Start out by grabbing onto one of your arms and then basing out the leg on that side, then sit all the way through while holding onto their arm. It's like you are almost laying perpendicular on their back and arm-locking them. After which, you pass through and take your opponent's back from behind.
   
   It's similar to the following video here, but ending up in North-South.
   
   
2. Clock Choke. Click here to see the one I was taught in class.

Two things Prof. showed me after I sparred:

1. Getting one leg outside of opponent's open guard then applying pressure on their leg to pass to side.
2. Kicking out a leg and wrapping the arms around their body.

To be continued...

Back From Europe

So I'm back from Europe and just trying to get back into competitive shape. Today we learned another hip throw and how to escape from a high mount. The one we learned was feet to opponent's armpit then roll them to the side. Which is almost like the 3 high mount that is shown in this video (but the video shows ending up on the opponent's back):