A nice little session on Saturday. We spent the instructional part of the class reviewing the moves from last week: the takedowns (Machida, ippon seionage and the Machacare, and the underhook guard pass variations.
Those variations, just to remember them were the (1) the basic underhook, sweeping the leg up on the shoulder and stepping/kneeing deep under the side, sprawl and duck around the leg to get to side control, (2) the underhook to Fowler, where you pin the leg that is on the mat and, hooking the head from that same direction, make the guy do the splits as you hook the head and backstep out and, (3) the underhook to roll, where you start like (1) and then, with your other grip, grab the belt or the pants and get the guy to start to roll over his far shoulder. In all likelihood, the guy won't do a full roll, but you can start the roll and then stick your head inside between his knee and elbow and roll him back into your lap and side control.
Tatame was rigorous. I rolled with Stephen, then with Joe and then with Pedro, a purple belt from Eastside. No easy rolls for burien top team on Saturday, that was for sure.
All the same, a great day of training. There's nothing better than training on a late Saturday morning/early Saturday afternoon, in many ways. And today was no exception to that.
