Last night we spent time working on triangle attacks from the full guard, as well as the flower sweep. From the full guard, we worked a closed guard attack when the guy reaches back to unhook your ankles, as well as a spider/open guard attack with pressure on the bicep with the extended leg leading to a slip move and a triangle trap.
We also worked on the basic flower sweep. I can't remember if there was a particular wrinkle that Rodrigo was adding to the flower sweep. But later, when we did a 20% Live drill, he had us include the flower sweep along with the triangle attacks, so maybe I'm missing something.
For the no gi open mat I rolled with Andrew for about 20 minutes. I tried to bring some butterfly guard to the game, but often ended up reverting to half guard. I'm just not going to beat myself up about the half guard - at least not for a few weeks. It's my go-to guard and insofar as overall jiu jitsu expectations have gone up, there's nothing wrong with making sure my go-to guard game is as tight as it can be.
One thing I noticed is that I'm starting to lose the feel of the twist sweep from half guard because I have been focused so much on improving my tackle sweep. Being able to go both ways with my sweeps from the half guard will be a priority next month leading into the tournament.
