6-7p: First private lesson! Worked out a deal with Gavin, a 4-stripe Purple Belt and excellent instructor. Planning to do weekly sessions. Goal is defense. Survival and escapes. Tonight's lesson emphasized turtle and back. We went over what I thought I knew and he added a few techniques that will be really helpful. Especially the three different turtle to guard recovery variations. Really enjoyed the lesson and am excited to have this focused instruction.
7-7:10p: Warm-up, stretches, and standard drills. No core work or push-ups. Odd.
7:10-7:20p: 20 arm bars from mount. 20 arm bars from guard.
7:20-7:30p: Sweep / pass the guard. Couple flower sweeps. Sweep off the pass. And another sweep...don't know the name but I learned it last week. Noor caught me in a triangle. He's not really supposed to go for a submission during this exercise, but hey...my posture was terrible and he needed to let me know somehow!
7:30-8p: Technique. Three submissions from guard. All related and involve posture break and shooting one leg on top of shoulder of attacking arm. First option is a palm up / palm down choke. If opponent has good posture and choke defense, switch to arm bar. If opponent defends arm bar, maneuver opponent's outside arm so that it points backward and outside of your outside knee. Break opponent's posture away from that arm under attack to create angle for kimura. Execute kimura.
8-8:30p: Rolls. I think they were five minutes each. Got Noor (3-stripe White Belt), Cleveland (4-stripe White Belt), Dr. Steve (now a Blue Belt), and another Blue Belt (forgot his name!). Had a good round of rolls. Had a few solid back and mount escapes. Arm bar escape. Got two taps (step over choke from side control and an arm lock via whizzer from guard). Dr. Steve caught me in a choke. Thought it was an arm triangle, but Steve had another name for it.
8:30-8:40p: Stretched.
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